Anyone here surprised by the level of latent racism popping up on DU?

[WilliamPitt]

Poll question: Anyone here surprised by the level of latent racism popping up on DU?

The immigration debates are bringing a lot of stuff out of the woodwork here that is, frankly, kinda shocking to me.

One person compares people chanting "Viva La Raza!" in Los Angeles to Brownshirts in Nazi Germany. Another somehow conflates a family member's illness to illegal immigration and wants all immigration stopped.

Guess what, folks? If you're not a Native American whose family has been here since the Stone Age, or an African American whose family came over here in steerage chained to a wall, you probably need to STFU about halting immigration. I'm Irish, English and German, and I am damned happy that people making demands like that were ignored when my family came over here.

If we get rid of all the immigrants, somewhere around 250 million people will have to leave. That's most everyone here. All immigrants, or the family of immigrants.

Anyway, I'm pretty grossed out. We have a long, long way to go, it seems, before our claims to lieralism or progressivism can be supported by what is in our minds and hearts.