so much hatred in one little comment

One of the "Editors' Selections" comments from the top story in the Times right now (Hillary Clinton's trip to Mexico and comment that U.S. drug use fuels Mexico's drug gangs problem):

March 25, 2009 8:33 am

As a starter, the US needs to (1) end the war on drugs, (2) create a guest worker program, short-term, no path to citizenship, (3) jail those who knowingly hire the undocumented to a large extent (think Iowa kosher farm), and (4) repeal birthright citizenship. Mexico needs to (1) effectively tax its oligarchy, so that its tremendous wealth is more equitably distributed and its people less likely to flee, and (2) realize its people are its responsibility, not ours.

Unfortunately, I doubt any of these will happen.

— DavidH, New Jersey

Let me translate this for you. Let's have a temporary visa program that permits employers to pay imported workers extremely low wages but guarantees them none of the labor rights they would have if they were Americans, and let's make sure these people don't become citizens so they can help us meet our demand for low-cost produce without receiving any political rights that might one day be used to change political systems that allow us to create these schemes to deprive people of their political rights because our produce prices might rise as a result. Next, let's repeal "birthright citizenship." In practice, this means that brown kids born in this country are not citizens - but we must make sure that white kids born in this country are! Thus we will set up bureaucracies to determine whether a child born in the country is American enough to get citizenship automatically, or instead must live in political oblivion - born without citizenship in any country! Also, in case you missed it, I hate Jews.

I don't even disagree with the "end the war on drugs" or the "equalize Mexican income disparity" arguments this person makes. But then he sneaks in these extremely hateful (but reasonable-sounding) arguments into the rest of his comment. And then 218 readers "recommend" this comment. Ugh.