Why I Detest Anne Coulter

            Unfortunately for those of us who are rational and are not racists, Anne Coulter had to open her mouth over the World Cup. As a soccer fan, there are few times when I can enjoy the sport with others in the United States and discuss strategy, gameplay, skill, and the competitiveness. But according to Anne Coulter, the interest in the sport is a symbol of the moral decay in America.

            I have little doubt that she wrote this opinion in order to elicit a response and gain notoriety once again after failing to keep up any semblance of existence within the Republican Party or Conservative news. However, I was scared to see that many came out in support of her claim and charged that soccer is “un-American” and that watching the sport and enjoying seeing the U.S team advance is “unpatriotic”.

            To sum up Coulter’s statement, she claimed that no one with a long line of family history in the U.S (which by her standards means having your great-grand father born here) was watching the world cup. She also made a slightly less offensive argument that soccer is anti-American because it is not individualistic.

            For one, I love watching the U.S team advance and I hope they win the world cup because I enjoy soccer and international competition. I know many others who have turned into soccer fans as they realized that the sport itself is pretty exciting despite the possibility of a zero-zero tie.

            Second, I am truly upset that many still come to the defense of an obviously racist and idiotic opinion that anything that is from another country is un-American. To Coulter and her disciples, if someone’s grandparents were born in East Asia, Latin America, Eastern Europe, or Africa and the grandchildren were born in the U.S and are citizens, they would not be as “American” as someone whose lineage traces back another generation.

            I take this offense to heart. Not only did my great-grand parents suffer much to escape the Progroms in Russia to come here, but my girlfriend was born in China and wants to become an American citizen. There are many restrictions that could prevent her from doing this. She must find work that sponsors her visa. She must continually apply for citizenship and be allowed within the quota. She must renew her visa in China every year. And yet I see little Anne Coulter has done to earn her citizenship besides being born in the U.S and having her great-grandfather born in the U.S.

            I would very much like to see another immigrant become a citizen and Coulter get deported or have her citizenship revoked if it is necessary and possible. Coulter and her followers seem to take advantage of their citizenship by looking down on others who strive for years and sometimes decades to earn what these people were given to at birth. Being American does not mean rejecting others because they don’t have a long family lineage in America. It does not mean becoming xenophobic. That is why I had a sad day when I saw Anne Coulter and her followers actually stand up for what is nothing more than racism and ignorance.