[bagster]

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).

🤣

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

Bagster

[mongrel]

We’ve already been given one by xone:

tonks: true origin not known

The preferred term by border patrol.

And, yeah, I’ve been harsh. I’ll chill. I should have let it go instead of creating a thread slide.

[ROCKLOBSTER]

Arabs, Chinese, Africans, Hondurans, Guatamalans, and others do the same. Are they wetbacks too?

Yeah sure...they can all be wetbacks.

or should the term be race specific?

The term "race" is racist.

(except in racing)

[xone]

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?

They are all tonks. Non-Mexican illegals are Other Than Mexican (OTM). Unless the BP has gone PC overboard.