Posted on 01/01/2023 4:20:50 PM PST by MtnClimber
In the battle over language, those who thought that they could sit on the sidelines are discovering that there are no sidelines.
This story is a couple of days old, but it still matters enough that it’s worth looking at now: North Carolina State football announcer Gary Hahn was suspended indefinitely for referring to “illegal aliens.” That he dared to mention their existence and refer to them by their legal nomenclature was a bridge too far for the wokesters at NC State. It’s also a reminder that the left is relentlessly limiting the parameters of what we’re allowed to say.
The term “alien” to describe someone who is not a citizen of the United States is an old one, going back to 1798 when it appeared in the Alien and Sedition Acts. More than 200 years later, it is still the term used in Title 8 of the United States Code, entitled “Aliens and Nationality.” One who is not a citizen and who has no legal right to be here is, by definition, an “illegal alien.”
To call people who violate American laws to enter this country anything else (e.g., “migrants” or “undocumented immigrants”) is a fraud by omission, as both terms are intended to obscure the person’s criminal conduct in entering the country. But of course, that’s exactly what leftists want to do: They want Americans to forget that the people streaming into America without abiding by any of our laws are just innocent people seeking the American dream—a dream propped up by our taxpayer dollars in the form of the benefits the government showers upon them.
The RNC may not be good for much, but the person in charge of its Twitter feed is doing his (or her) job and has assembled a decent collection
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Those who control the language control the culture.
He should be reprimanded - the correct term is "illegal alien invaders".
LoL
We were once a country of freedom and now we are a country of oppression and tyranny.
Bkmk
Bkmk
The despicable wokesters say you cannot call illegal invaders “aliens” and Stanford University says you cannot call native people lawfully living here “Americans.”
So what’s left?
The more that “good” people just shake their heads and go their own way, tue more they say, “God is in control.” And walk away; tue more this world and nation turn to hell on earth.
Ping
What did it have to do with the football game?
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