>"we can't listen to any ideas from anyone born before the year 2000 because they were racist"... Woah, woah, woah. Where did you get that? No one cares wheth

>"we can't listen to any ideas from anyone born before the year 2000 because they were racist"... Woah, woah, woah. Where did you get that? No one cares whether de Tocqueville was racist or not. The material point of the post is that ethnic factionalism did not rise in the US in the past few decades, it's been with us from the beginning. De Tocqueville was simply a convenient stylistic means of illustrating this fact, as the original poster implicitly relied on the authority of de Tocqueville in his assertion that ethnic factionalism is new to the US. You're jumping to a conclusion that no one made man.