You assume I am politically correct because I take exception to someone using the term "wetback?" Guess what, it doesn't just apply to South Americans. If I saw someone calling any race or "ethnic group" by putdowns, I'd call them on it too. It doesn't matter if YOU think it's racist, it matters if those around you do.
I can tell you've thought this out very well, thanks. I'm not following you, but then all the best anyway.
"You assume I am politically correct because I take exception to someone using the term "wetback?" Guess what, it doesn't just apply to South Americans. If I saw someone calling any race or "ethnic group" by putdowns, I'd call them on it too. It doesn't matter if YOU think it's racist, it matters if those around you do."
These are foreigners, sneaking across our borders.
It is a smuggling term about foreigners, I don't see any reason to be overly sensitive about our language describing criminal behavior of foreigners against the US.
I think it is a pretty mild term for some criminal that is a foreigner, sneaking into your country.
Calling the French frogs when we get annoyed at them seems much worse, since they are just citizens acting in their nations own interest, without committing crimes on our soil.