What is the biggest threat to Spokane’s future? Politicians inciting riot? Profiteers destroying civil society? Ben Stuckart’s “dirty smear” on the Spokane Municipal Code, and the rest of the City Council majority’s “lawlessness”? Or is it – once again, as always – “the other”? Many white Americans – too many – have arrived at a hysterical, ignorant moment regarding “the other,” from those who dream of deporting 11 million undocumented immigrants to those whose sympathies in Ferguson, Missouri, are limited to cops and storefronts, with none for the dead. Dog-whistle bigotry flourishes, and coded racism – from “thug” rhetoric to ignorant insinuations about “black on black” crime – is having a self-confident resurgence. A large part of this is shrill immigration paranoia, in which racial hostility finds full expression in dehumanizing and grotesquely exaggerated complaints about “illegals”/Shawn Vestal, SR. More here.