Nativism at its worst
It didn't take even an hour for Jason to post an item about the 24-year-old Glendale woman who was killed in a hit-and-run last night on the Daily News Web site that we get one reader lashing out at immigration and immigrant drivers.
Now I'm not going to repeat the post here -- here's the link if you're curious -- but the writer's argument seems to be based on the fact the car that hit the woman was a Mercedes Benz sedan. That's big leap in logic, but extreme nativism is rarely logical.
I usually expect this kind of talk AFTER police have an identified suspect in custody, but then it doesn't take much set off the anti-immigration crowd nowadays. I wonder what the commenter will say when he or she finds out the victim was Latina.
Maybe it's something against the Germans, those engineers of fine automotive products. We have to put a stop to German immigration! Who knows how many of teutonic scofflaws are living among us without proper papers?