It is really embarrassing to read the xenophobic posts on DU,

[Ninsianna]

142. Well, accusing people of xenophobia by projecting a very odd definition of it

based on accent and fluency, a distinction that xenophobes usually make was rather judgemental as well.

Seems like actual xenophobia is not recognized, even by those setting themselves up as judges of it.

I have read the comments, and regardless of what people might be saying about accents and fluency, that this is the point of contention really speaks to blindness of the actual xenophobia here.

"Them furriners talk funny, it's cuz they dunno real English, 'Murican English" this is xenophobia. Assumptions made about why people are saying things speaks to where that's coming from.

They're expressly ridiculing everything about this ridiculous woman, and quite frankly it's well deserved. It has nothing to do with xenophobia.

Dumbasses who make judgments about accents conflate them with fluency are not hard to spot. I deal with them on a daily basis, my acquired midwestern accent doesn't match my face or my name.

I know what xenophobia is, and making fun of Melania and her pink balloon sleeved outfit and her terrible teleprompter reading isn't it. It's her delivery, it was the content and it was a woman so flaming in her hypocrisy that she didn't seem smart enough to figure out why she's making herself even more ridiculous than her outfits and choice of shoes.