I’m Afraid of Americans

So, a (potentially) illegal immigrant from some country to America’s south (possibly Mexico) raped and impregnated a 10-year-old girl who gave birth in Idaho. He is 37. Ick.

But I honestly don’t know which is more reprehensible: what this bastard did to that poor girl or the comments on the USA Today page about the incident, which include taking a shotgun and “blowing his teeth through the back of his head” and other forms of torture. Then, there are the blatantly racist comments about how raping children is “normal” or “acceptable” for “Mexicans” and that if America stopped letting immigrants in, this wouldn’t happen. (Because, you know, there aren’t any white, American men who go all Rapey McGee on children. That only happens in Mexico. And Austria.) And then there are the people who turn it into an anti-abortion cry with “we never would have caught him if she’d had a late term abortion” because, you know, the girl’s word or the DNA test on the fetus would have been bullshit. Especially the girl’s word, though, because you know those little girls, always lying about being raped by older men….