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To: ladyjane

"Chili, if we move

Vietnamese,

they are evacuees. If they come to us to be



evacuated, they are refugees."


8 posted on 07/13/2006 9:21:19 PM PDT by claudiustg (dou•ble•think ('d&-b&l-"thi[ng]k), noun, 1949: a simultaneous belief in two contradictory ideas.)
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To: claudiustg

That was in the olden days.

Now 'refugee' is a pejorative term.

Applied correctly it is still a pejorative term.

Let's not forget the man in DC who lost his job because he used the word niggardly.


15 posted on 07/14/2006 6:31:33 AM PDT by ladyjane
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