re: #61 Killgore Trout

Tough call. At first glance it might me culturally insensitive but it seems the complaint is the guy is anti-immigration and anti-latino. Not sure how true those charges are,

I’m voting for racist. Sanchez speaks of Tran as though he represents an ethnic group in general (“the Vietnamese and the Republicans”) and portrays this as a threat to a comparably broad ethnic group she purports to represent. It is plainly an appeal based on ethnic identification if nothing else. Substitute “the blacks” or “the Jews” or even “the Irish” for “the Vietnamese” and see how it plays.

The larger point though is that the entire wingnut universe will loudly claim vindication if they find one Democrat anywhere, of any minuscule significance at all, who says the kinds of things the right-wing says in its official statements every day. While you’re substituting terms, in fact, you can dial in “Muslims” and see if it doesn’t sound very familiar.