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To: TXnMA; mongrel

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Personally, I don’t see it as a problem with political correctness. In the town where I grew up, there were many Americans of Hispanic dissent. In school, some students who wanted to abuse others would accuse them of being “wetbacks.” In fact, our bus driver was called “wetback” by a student (yeah, we sat in a motionless bus for a lonnnng time until the student was identified).

The term became “racist” because of its misapplication (i.e., to imply all who are of Mexican dissent must have swam here illegally) So I grew up genuinely disliking the term from it’s misuse. I agree times have changed and prefer to avoid a term open to charges of racism. Just my two pesos. (see what I did there?)


182 posted on 11/17/2018 3:10:49 PM PST by ransomnote (IN GOD WE TRUST)
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To: ransomnote

I agree it is a harsh & derogatory term. Has never been all that flattering. Though when I was a kid, for many discussions, it was merely a descriptor to differentiate legals form illegals.


209 posted on 11/17/2018 4:58:22 PM PST by JockoManning (http://www.zazzle.com/brain_truth for hats T's e.g. STAY CALM & DO THE NEXT LOVING THING)
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