The “n-word” indeed does what you said, but “wetback” is descriptive and specific.

The n-word is how Negro is said with a strong southern accent. Over time, its use turned into a racial slur.

Wetback has undergone the same transformation. While it was specific, it has become a word applied all Hispanics without regard for their legal status. It also turned into a racial slur. But then again, you live in Maine, so racial slurs are just a way of life there.

Wetback has undergone the same transformation.

Says who?

While it was specific, it has become a word applied all Hispanics without regard for their legal status.

That's not my fault.

And while we're at it "Hispanic" is a fake word. It doesn't mean anything. What does being a "hispanic" have to do with being wet...or illegal?

It also turned into a racial slur.

Really, what "race" (a racist term) is a "hispanic" (a fake word) Ethnic Mayan, or some other Spanish-speaking Mexican Indian nation? Does it also include a white ethnic-European ruling class, decended from the conquerors?

It's all socialist propaganda, and you bought it.

Ignore the RATagandists, and take back your damn language. A wetback is an illegal alien who crossed the river. It's been cemented in US Law.

But then again, you live in Maine, so racial slurs are just a way of life there.

Only if you're a democRAT, but it does look like you're no stranger to slurs.

By the way....I moved here.

But then again, you live in Maine, so racial slurs are just a way of life there.

Oooo, damn. This is how civil wars get started, you know.

Here's the thing on wetbacks. It's people that misuse words like "wetback" that are the problem.

Like ROCKLOBSTER said, wetback has a specific meaning. Mexicans who sneak across the border by crossing the Rio Grande. Of course, that has evolved over time to them sneaking in the trunk of cars and other means. Some even walk across without getting wet, heck, some even die of de-hydration. Drybacks?

Anyway, I will allow "wetbacks" to apply to ALL illegal aliens crossing over the US/Mexican border.

It becomes troublesome, however, when Arabs, Chinese, Africans, Hondurans, Guatamalans, and others do the same. Are they wetbacks too, or should the term be race specific?

That's a problem. Once you apply a word to illegal Mexicans, what do you do with the rest of them? We need a one-size-fits-all name for illegal foreigners. I will not be told by politically correct, culturally suicidal Marxist hippies what to call them, so "undocumtned immigrant" is out.

So you see, amigos. It's not Americans causing problems with the language. It's the bloody wogs (and the Marxists).

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p.s. Do you think other countries (other than white western cultures) beat themselves up over this topic? Or is it race specific?

Bagster