“Lose the xenophobia. It detracts from the story.”
Lose the Mexican loving knee jerk reaction. It is an important data point that it’s Mexican owned paper that is doing an anti-Trump hit piece.
Me no likee any words ending with -phobia or -phobic. The left loves the suffix, and even the religion of peace has caught on to its utility by attaching it to their own deadly religious cult to smear anyone who objects to being decapitated.
Dictionary definitions of xenophobia include: “deep-rooted fear towards foreigners” (Oxford English Dictionary; OED), and “fear of the unfamiliar” (Webster’s).
The word comes from the Greek words (xenos), meaning “strange”, “foreigner”, and (phobos), meaning “fear”.
It is (almost) always used by liberals to tar normal people, when they don’t know what else to say, and is quite often accompanied by its little friends “racist” and “bigot”.
They have done such violence to the language that I am arbitrarily raising this perfectly innocent word into the argumentum ad Hitlerum pantheon of lefty ad hominem smear words.
It is used so often by screeching Obama snowflakes, when they have no real response to an argument, so that it has lost any real meaning that it may have once had, and has basically become `whatever ... ‘.
The inference that Slim is somehow driving the Times to write a hit piece on Trump is false. It's a distraction from the story.