A Commentary on Ann Coulter

On March 8^th, an article titled “Immigrant Privilege Drives Child Rape Epidemic” was posted on Ann Coulter’s blog. The blogpost discusses immigration crime rates in America, however approximately 50% of the articles is made up of a list of headline titles involving the rape of children by immigrants. The audience of this article is clearly geared towards steady conservatives with no intent to convince people with opposing views, for the following reasons.

  Starting at the top of the post, her first sentence states that we should be relieved that we do not have “Muslim rapists pouring into our country”, but infers that we can’t relax because “we have Mexican rapists pouring into our country.” This inflammatory statement is clearly offensive and not conducive to welcoming a variety of readers to enjoy this article. The very next sentence refers to Latin America as being a ‘peasant culture’, and then adds that Muslims are also ‘peasant culture’. It is important to note that these two things she equates under the umbrella term ‘peasant cultures’ include the followers of the second most popular religion in the world, and 21 separate countries that are commonly referred to as Latin America. Shortly after this, she states that her statistics don’t even include legal immigrants, adding that she believes that legal immigrants are even worse than illegal. If I were dissect every sentence of this article and their racist and ignorant connotations, this commentary would be longer than her article, so I will stick to these statements. What does she mean by the term ‘peasant cultures’? Despite the fact that she has been recorded saying this phrase as early as 2015, I could find no other source of any other person or reporter using it, and it seems to have no real definition.

  The only sources she cites within this post is one of her own articles, and a website called North Carolinians for Immigration Reform and Enforcement, which appears to be a citizen run advice forum on how to report illegal immigrants and their employers. One of the most important points of a solid argument is that you mention the opposing points of views, and discredit them, but she did not do this either because it wouldn’t matter to the audience she was writing for, or because she can’t deny the statistics that prove her statements false. This article from The New York Times discusses how “Contrary to Trump’s Claims,Immigrants Are Less Likely to Commit Crimes”, and cites many studies such as this, and this. These sources cited by the well reputed paper The New York Times cite real statistics that have been put together by qualified researchers from well known institutions, while Ann Coulter's sole source is as reliable as Wikipedia, since there is no information on who is running the domain, or any sources for it's information.