Comment by rainonmoon

It's alarming how comfortable people have become on HN to announce their xenophobia so openly lately. Besides its ideological ugliness, it also seems to take a fairly narrow view of history. If this is "because" of anything, surely it's because of the authoritarian belief that populations must be protected from themselves to ensure their comfort, that liberty is a small price to pay for safety. Civil unrest is just a convenient excuse and you play right into their hands by othering your fellow person, regardless of where their parents were born.