Posted on 05/05/2013 8:03:28 AM PDT by Louis Foxwell
Liberals love euphemisms the way that goats love eating rotten apples. But the problem with euphemisms is that they eventually take on the derogatory meaning of the thing they were trying to slowly back away from. Retarded started out as a euphemism to replace slow which was a euphemism started to replace moron which was also… you get the idea.
Liberals insisted that we use illegal immigrant to replace illegal alien which replaced more insulting terms. Now they are insisting that we use undocumented immigrant. And according to the LA Times, even undocumented immigrant is a bridge too far.
“Illegal immigrants” is overly broad and does not accurately apply in every situation. The alternative suggested by the 1995 guidelines, “undocumented immigrants,” similarly falls short of our goal of precision. It is also untrue in many cases, as with immigrants who possess passports or other documentation but lack valid visas.
The umm quest for precision naturally led the LA Times to eliminate precision entirely.
Use the term “illegal immigration” to describe the phenomenon of entering or residing in a country in violation of the law. Avoid using “illegal immigrant” or “undocumented immigrant” to describe individuals except when necessary in direct quotations.
Refusing to categorize individuals is not precision. It’s political correctness. But the left is understandably trying to dodge the euphemism treadmill knowing that any word that they use to describe illegal aliens will take on derogatory connotations. So in true Newspeak style, they are going to eliminate the term entirely.
But that just leaves everyone free to default to the core term, illegal alien, while the LA Times hacks worry about being bought out by the Koch Brothers and find new creative ways to advocate an amnesty for illegal aliens without using of any of those terms.
Here’s an installment. Hope to get the Roundup soon.
Thank you for the pings. I don’t always comment, but I always read them.
When I post links to Greenfield in another board I am in heads explode. They say he is a right wing nut but cannot refute what he writes.
Liberals are notorious racists and bigots.
I love when that happens.
Keep up the good work, FRiend.
Oh YES they are! Agree, and Liberals are everything they claim as faults of all others.
“Projection” is Liberal SOP.
One knows the Lib by what the Lib says of others.
Thanks Louis Foxwell. Partisan Media Shills ping.
Illegal alien charged with killing 5-year-old boy in Kentucky
http://www.examiner.com | may 3, 2013 | Dave Gibson
Posted on 05/05/2013 7:33:19 AM PDT by lowbridge
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/3015943/posts
If we work it right, we can distill it into "Undocumented Democrats". Let's also try "The Gang of Ocho" instead of parroting another of the media's euphemisms, "The Gang of Eight".
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