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'Illegal immigrant' an offensive slur?
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| Friday, January 30, 2004
Posted on 01/30/2004 12:06:23 AM PST by JohnHuang2
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To: Drango
I say we call 'em what they really are...illegal Democrat voters.That's right...future Kerry voters in '04.
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posted on
01/30/2004 3:28:34 AM PST
by
skinkinthegrass
(Just because you're paranoid, doesn't mean they aren't out to get you :)
To: clee1
"Great!!! I'll just go back to calling them 'wetbacks' then."
Why not? Calling an illegal an illegal is now just as offensive as calling them a wetback, so may as well call 'em both.
To: My Dog Likes Me
"I don't think the White House knows how this issue resonates with Americans."
Bush will get the message when he loses in Novemeber. Bush would much rather cater to the hispanics than to his conservative base. He doesn't realize that in doing so, he will get neither (hispanics will vote Dem in any event, and the conservative base will either stay home or vote for a conservative via write-in or, if on the ballot, a Constitution Party candidate, or someone similar).
To: JohnHuang2
I prefer "criminal alien" anyway.
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posted on
01/30/2004 5:30:12 AM PST
by
MontanaBeth
(Irritating a Democrat a day, since 1970)
To: JohnHuang2
How about calling them citizenship challenged?
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posted on
01/30/2004 5:35:02 AM PST
by
Piquaboy
To: JohnHuang2
Straight-forward English is apparently too descriptive for those who don't like the truth plainly spoken. Homosexuals do not like being called homosexual either.
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posted on
01/30/2004 5:43:17 AM PST
by
NorthGA
To: JohnHuang2
These aren't 'immigrants' they are invaders...illegal alien invaders....drug smugglers, violent criminals, & terrorists who also happen to have wives and children tagging along with them to create an image of poor families in need of Christian charity and mercy....
Its a great scam..
The VC and Palestinians used and use similar techniques against the French U.S. and Israel...it enables them to invade and destroy a national infrastructure....they simply hide behind women and children (or use them as bombs or carriers) and prey upon the mercy ingrained into a Christian nation....In the case of the illegal invading aliens Its a passive aggressive invasion/terror technique and a powerful strategy...
The weapons of the illegal invaders aren't necessarily bombs and germs (though that may come to) Mostly their weapons of destruction are to suck the life out of America's institutions and also to commit as much crime as possible making it certain the citizens of the US will eventually petition their govt. to stop the crime & will willingly give up their freedom for security...This invasion force will also will drive down living wages to the point of ridding the USA of that nasty middle class they are so proud of....Another point not wasted on the elite
Illegal aliens are as much an enemy invading force as were the Japs at Peal Harbor...
This wave needs to be turned back ...and force Mexico and the other countries of origin deal fairly with their own people..
Of course it always helps to have a liberal socialist anti American cheerleader group egging on the terrorists...like our elites do
The invader's home govts are run by the greedy, selfish and cruel..... America enables them by taking in, employing, and caring of their people...when it is they who should be doing it...
IMO
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posted on
01/30/2004 5:48:48 AM PST
by
joesnuffy
(Moderate Islam Is For Dilettantes)
To: KangarooJacqui
Ok, non-legal immigrant. All better now?
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posted on
01/30/2004 6:15:37 AM PST
by
GigaDittos
(Bumper sticker: "Vote Democrat, it's easier than getting a job.")
To: joesnuffy
By definition they are immigrants. But they have not done it buy constitutional standards. They are illegal, unlawful, unofficial, improper. What should we call them. How are these words DEHUMANIZING? How are they made less human by these terms? Of course this is more PC psychobabble. Undocumented, although true, is not a complete description.
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posted on
01/30/2004 6:20:09 AM PST
by
GigaDittos
(Bumper sticker: "Vote Democrat, it's easier than getting a job.")
To: NorthGA
Most don't speak English, they don't know or care what they're being called, it's the liberals who are freaking out. The illegal foreigners call themselves "mojados" which means "wets".
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posted on
01/30/2004 6:22:09 AM PST
by
FITZ
To: Piquaboy
How about calling them Mexican citizens?
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posted on
01/30/2004 6:22:32 AM PST
by
GigaDittos
(Bumper sticker: "Vote Democrat, it's easier than getting a job.")
To: MontanaBeth
You beat me too it. Criminal aliens, criminal immigrants. It's all the same and technically accurate.
This is all a slap in the face of immigrants who obtained citizenship legally.
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posted on
01/30/2004 6:25:02 AM PST
by
cjshapi
To: GigaDittos
Of course it is a dehumanizing term. They commit misdemeanors, as do highway speeders, seat belt law shirkers, and jaywalkers. They are all ILLEGALS, too. But the border-crossers are strangers, who speak another language, and have other habits, and therefore bigotry and hatred come out. These threads serve to foster and enflame this bigotry and hatred, until the "S.S.S." gets expressed, and the "despicable people" labels are used, ad nauseum.
We have a right to our own sovereignty, but we have no right to dehumanize others, those who incidentally would be ourselves if we were in their shoes.
Some anti-Bush people seem to think that any socialist Democrat who will grab onto this hatred and bigotry and use it will win the election, as if Americans are as hateful and as bigoted and as easily swayed as they are.
To: international american; FBD
"'I can't speak for other immigrant groups,' activist Jerry Gonzalez told the Atlanta Journal-Constitution..."First off, just how many [other] "immigrant groups" are there, for chrissakes.
In any event...
Why am I not suprised to see this appearing in the Liberal-Socialist, America-Hating-All-The-Time Atlanta Urinal-Constipation?
Even more inportantly, why should anyone care what this idiot has to say?
Tell the clown he & his "Illegally Located *Constituency*" [ILC] have two choices:
1) www.DrPhil.com
2) Tune in to Opra (consult your local listings for time.)
"...'but on behalf of the Latino community, many people I speak to on a day-to-day basis think it serves to dehumanize the person, makes them less than human. Similar to the way the n-word was used to dehumanize African-Americans.'"
In other words, they're objecting to the truth.
Again.
Well most people I know are offended to be refered to as "Gringo" by the Latino Community, as well as a "Dumbass Taxpayer Stooge" by our own government.
...of course we don't count, eh?
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posted on
01/30/2004 6:36:36 AM PST
by
Landru
(Tagline Schmagline...)
To: GigaDittos
Mexican citizens? Not all are mexicans and some would be deeply offended by that.
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posted on
01/30/2004 6:37:35 AM PST
by
CJ Wolf
To: JohnHuang2
I find them being here having broken our laws offensive. I will make a deal, they go home and stop offending me and I will not call them that.
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posted on
01/30/2004 6:38:37 AM PST
by
RiflemanSharpe
(An American for a more socially and fiscally conservation America!)
To: GigaDittos
You missed my point.
Then again, I didn't put my point very well to being with (something to do with the fear of being ostracised by FReepers... not for my political beliefs mind you... anyway, that's another story) so you're forgiven.
The sarcasm was uncalled for, however.
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posted on
01/30/2004 6:39:53 AM PST
by
KangarooJacqui
(I think, therefore I hate spam)
To: JohnHuang2
"....people who provide a great deal for the economy,"
Say, like illegally taking the American taxpayer to the tune of $40 billion a year?
Hey! when can I begin to "contribute" like them?
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posted on
01/30/2004 7:05:37 AM PST
by
azhenfud
("He who is always looking up seldom finds others' lost change...")
To: Landru
"...of course we don't count, eh?"
NOPE:)
To: JohnHuang2
We should go back to "wetbacks".
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posted on
01/30/2004 7:53:51 AM PST
by
Kenton
("Life is tough, and it's really tough when you're stupid" - Damon Runyon)
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