Greetings, racist psychobabble fans!
Every Friday, we'll bring you this innovative and occasionally interactive web column featuring the five most racist comments by Register readers. Okay, so maybe there's some racist comments we'll miss, but with so much to choose from, who cares? (Feel free to alert us to any doozies in this column's comments section.) Usually, we'll be pulling these comments from five different Register stories–maybe we'll have fun by asking you to guess which comment was in response to which particular story. But this week, we have a special treat. It's the “Let's Deport the Illegal Immigrant Girl Who Just Got Raped!” edition of our new column:
Let''s get right down to it, folks. On July 22, the Register reported that Jaime Zamora Ramirez, 40, of Costa Mesa, was arraigned for raping a 17-year-old employee of his cleaning company after luring her to his home on July 11. “The teen had signs of bruising as a result of the assault, according to the Costa Mesa Police Department,” the Register reported. “Police
said Ramirez told the woman that no one would believe her story over
his, and cautioned her against reporting it because she was an
undocumented immigrant.”
Let's see how Register readers reacted to this horrifying story. Keep in mind that the Register actually deletes posts that use racial slurs, so these are comments that, by the Register's standards at least, play by the rules of polite conversation.
1) “rape, senseless beating to death of a young girl, groping, fighting,
drunk in public, hit and run, etc. It is pretty obvious these folks
have no regard for our citizens, laws or society. These disgusting acts
bring down the quality of living in CA everyday.”
2) “I feel bad for the girl but when all is said and done she needs to be deported.”
3) “ha ha, yeah I agree. She was targeted because she was illegal. Throw
the book at him, then throw her in the bus. Quick before she has a kid!
Quick!!”
4) “illegals, including many asians and muslims are getting the same
freebees as the hispanics. They help congest freeways, they get a free
education on the American taxpayers back. They get free medical, free
hospitalizaton, also being paid for by the American taxpayer. Not to
mention the millions of dollars for food stamps and welfare “O EXCUSE
ME! ILLEGALS DO NOT GET WELFARE,- right – LOL!!!!!!!!!!!!!”
5) “I completely agree with your sentiments. As a strong believer in
American Freedom, I feel that there is nothing wrong with an American
Citizen exercising those god given freedoms and protections to rape 17
year old girls who are here illegally. It's like she was asking for it
by stepping on to our land right? American Soldiers fought and
died in order to protect every possible action Americans decide to take
against illegal immigrants. Raping, torturing, killing… I mean come
on, the police have more important things to do than go after an
American for a little harmless fun at the expense of an illegal…I think it's perfectly fine to ignore the underlying moral issues
here, which I normally would be up in arms about, becuase the “victim”
isn't an American (and more importantly she isn't white).”
Now the fun part: you can vote on which comment was the most fucked-up!
Award-winning investigative journalist Nick Schou is Editor of OC Weekly. He is the author of Kill the Messenger: How the CIA’s Crack Cocaine Controversy Destroyed Journalist Gary Webb (Nation Books 2006), which provided the basis for the 2014 Focus Features release starring Jeremy Renner and the L.A. Times-bestseller Orange Sunshine: The Brotherhood of Eternal Love’s Quest to bring Peace, Love and Acid to the World, (Thomas Dunne 2009). He is also the author of The Weed Runners (2013) and Spooked: How the CIA Manipulates the Media and Hoodwinks Hollywood (2016).