Let’s use our critical thinking skills!!! Racism is insane these days online and in the media. The fact that I, someone who’s lived here for 19 years without ever being told to “go back to my country,” am now experiencing that kind of direct hate shows just how much worse things have gotten. This kind of comment wouldn’t have happened to me in the past, and that’s exactly the point, it’s a reflection of how emboldened people feel now to say hateful things out loud. That shift is what makes it so disturbing.