Reply #47: I know which thread it was. For anyone who has been on

[Cleita]

the receiving side of bigotry, even though it was couched in deceptive language about allegedly illegal immigrants, recognized that all the racist points were there. For anyone who was alive before the civil rights movements of the sixties, the same things were said about African Americans back then. The two main points that stood out was the bathroom habits of the immigrants and they fact that they were law breakers.

The post was purely ancedotal so there was no way to verify the truth. Some of us suggested that unless this referred to a story in the news, it had no place on DU. The complainer, or original OP was politely advised to call the authorities if such a thing was happening in this neighborhood to investigate, but why smear a group of people on a public internet when the story can't be verified?

Back in the sixties the same accusations were made about blacks as well as saying they were responsible for all the crimes committed everywhere. Some things never change. Those of us who found the thread racist and objectional alerted as much as we could but the thread went on for more than three hundred posts of some really vile hatred against people who weren't here to defend themselves and set the record straight.