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Right-Wing Hate Apparently Knows No Bounds

Jill

The family of Ana Fernandez, one of the people killed in the DC Metro crash, has been receiving harassing phone calls about their immigration status. The whole post:

Well this is the most disturbing thing I’ve run across today, and I watched that entire Mark Sanford press conference debacle. WTOP reports that the family of Ana Fernandez, one of the victims of Monday’s fatal Metro crash, has been getting hate-filled phone calls from people questioning whether she and her family are legal immigrants. No one has ever questioned Fernandez’s immigration status, and a family member has already told the media that all six of her now motherless children were born in the United States and full U.S. citizens, but still, the sort of people who watch Lou Dobbs are calling their home and harassing them, just because their last name is Hispanic. Here’s hoping the people making those calls never have to deal with a terrible family tragedy. Jackals.

“Jackals” is a nicer word than I would have used.

16 thoughts on Right-Wing Hate Apparently Knows No Bounds

  2. i fucking *hate* people

    they just lost a fucking FAMILY MEMBER. for the love of Christ, leave them the fuck alone. who CARES if she was a legal immigrant – her children Full American Citizens, MORESO THAN JOHN FUCKING MCCAIN

    just !!!!!!!

    hate people.

  4. Jesus christ. Totally believable, but in civilised discourse we must pretend these bastards don’t exist. Fuck. *fumes*

  5. OK, that didn’t entirely make sense – I know what I meant. 😛 Failing at articulating it better on second attempt too.

  11. Fernandez is a pretty popular last name in Puerto Rico. I’m not saying that the Fernandez family is definitely Puerto Rican, since Spanish last names don’t always give away a person’s national origin (I’m Puerto Rican, but I have a last name that is more popular in South America than in PR). But people don’t even stop to think that maybe this family or any Hispanic/Latino family is from Puerto Rico, and therefore, U.S. citizens from birth.

  13. That is awful, just really really shockingly awful.

    the sort of people who watch Lou Dobbs are calling their home and harassing them

    Isn’t that a terrible insult to the sort of people who watch Lou Dobbs? It’s like nothing is so horrible that it’s worth passing up a shallow opportunity to score political points. Ugh.

    From occasional unavoidable exposure to Dobbs while waiting around in airports, I have to say I don’t care for what I’ve seen. Is he an anti-immigrant bigot? I dunno, it would fit. But I have to believe that neither he nor any but the tiniest, most sociopathic minority of his viewers would ever stoop to calling up people whose mother just died and harassing them, for any reason. There are just not that many people capable of such horrible behavior.

    Why on earth would I stick up for Lou Dobbs fans? That is not an easy question… I guess something about civility and decency, and politics not having to be so vicious and divisive. Propagating this stereotype, where everyone with different opinions is a monstrously evil person, it just doesn’t help.

  14. how do we know these peckerheads are right wing? lou dobbs, who was referenced, is a famous critic of (excess) capitalism and globalization, a position not unrelated to his bigotry. in the recent election, no where was the anti-immigration card played heavier than in OH and PA, replete with disingenuous wacks at nafta by both the Obama and Clinton camps in a subtle but obvious attempt to play on xenophobia during times of recession. the biggest surge in hate crimes recently the alledged products of bill oreilly and sean hannidy (holocaust museam shooter and tiller kllier) or even the anti-semitc anti-military muslims (little rock and the ny stoner 4), but rather lracist latino gangs systematically targeting blacks. are they rightwingers too?

    before we wack rightwingers, lets make sure the racists in question are.

  16. Nothing good ever follows: the sort of people who…. Or precedes it for that matter. It’s nothing more than a prelude for demonizing “them”, the people who dare to disagree with the phrase-user’s narrow view. Why not just say” There’s no place in the world for reasoned discourse. There are only people who think just like I do and the demons from the other side who don’t. Y’know,.. Lou Dobbs-watchers”.

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