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Is ‘Illegal Immigrant’ a Racial Slur? (That's Waycist! Alert)
NRO ^ | 6/26/2012 | Ian Tuttle

Posted on 06/26/2012 12:21:20 PM PDT by mojito

Charles Garcia — the CEO of Garcia Trujillo, a strategy firm that works with Hispanic-owned companies — does not like the term illegal immigrant. He prefers economic refugee.

He is not alone. Media Matters for America, the liberal website “dedicated to . . . correcting conservative misinformation,” claimed that Fox News used President Obama’s June 15 immigration announcement as an “opportunity to dehumanize undocumented immigrants.” MMFA reported that Fox News used the term illegals 17 times during its June 15 broadcast, illegal aliens twice, and aliens once, not including uses of these terms in on-screen text. These “racial slurs” are further proof, the site contended, of Fox’s “long, documented history of anti-immigrant bias.”

Efforts to change the parlance of the immigration debate are not new. In 2010 the Diversity Committee of the Society of Professional Journalists called on journalists nationwide to replace illegal immigrant and illegal alien with undocumented worker or undocumented immigrant, arguing that the usual terms are “offensive” to Latinos.

That same year, the Applied Research Center, a self-described “racial justice think tank,” launched its Drop the I-Word (DTIW) campaign, calling on media outlets and elected officials to “uphold reason, due process, and responsible speech by dropping the i-word.” Illegals, the think tank contends, “is a racially charged slur used to dehumanize and discriminate against immigrants and people of color regardless of migratory status.”

But while DTIW maintains that “the i-word” is racist, dehumanizing, and often inaccurate, is it actually any of the three?

(Excerpt) Read more at nationalreview.com ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; Extended News; US: Arizona
KEYWORDS: aliens; economicrefugee; economy; illegalalien; illegalimmigrant; jobs; racebaiting
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That's waycist: the last refuge of the progressive scoundrel.

It's racist, even though there is no reference to race in the term. It's "coded" you see.

And besides, it's wrong to say that something illegal is actually illegal. These folks are simply "undocumented," which makes it sound like the dog ate their papers as they were crossing the border.

1 posted on 06/26/2012 12:21:33 PM PDT by mojito
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To: mojito

I prefer ‘Illegal Inhabitants’ or ‘Foreign Invaders’. ‘Immigrant’ has a positive tone to it so it does not apply to ILLEGAL activity.


2 posted on 06/26/2012 12:24:21 PM PDT by GeorgeWashingtonsGhost
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To: mojito

tagline


3 posted on 06/26/2012 12:25:53 PM PDT by showme_the_Glory (ILLEGAL: prohibited by law. ALIEN: Owing political allegiance to another country or government)
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No, that would be Wet-Back!

..that's a slur.

4 posted on 06/26/2012 12:25:53 PM PDT by TexasCajun
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To: GeorgeWashingtonsGhost

Criminal+immigrant = Crimmigrant


5 posted on 06/26/2012 12:26:32 PM PDT by ConservaTexan (February 6, 1911)
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To: mojito

He’s right. They should be called “alien invaders”.


6 posted on 06/26/2012 12:27:30 PM PDT by MuttTheHoople (Obama doesnÂ’t have the work ethic to be Anti-Christ.)
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To: mojito

The left has achieved so much success with the charge of racism, they apply it to every opposition they encounter.


7 posted on 06/26/2012 12:27:52 PM PDT by MrB (The difference between a Humanist and a Satanist - the latter knows whom he's working for)
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To: Liz; AuntB; mojito

You two are the worst offenders here :)


8 posted on 06/26/2012 12:30:48 PM PDT by sickoflibs (Romney is a liberal. Just watch him closely try to screw us.)
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To: mojito
I am offended by the term, "Illegal alien". The correct term is

Undocumented Democrat


9 posted on 06/26/2012 12:32:26 PM PDT by Jeff Chandler (What did the president know and when did he stop knowing it?)
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To: MuttTheHoople
They must never be referred to as "immigrants". That's because you have to have an "immigration visa" to immigrate to this country.

They are, instead, illegal aliens ~

10 posted on 06/26/2012 12:34:53 PM PDT by muawiyah
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To: mojito

rush limbaugh talked about “illegal immigrant” on his show today. There is no such thing as an illegal immigrant! Try illegal invader, etc. It can only be legal immigrant.


11 posted on 06/26/2012 12:36:21 PM PDT by biggredd1
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Fine. I don’t care what you call them, just deport all the “economic refugees” who are in the country illegally.


12 posted on 06/26/2012 12:38:39 PM PDT by Blood of Tyrants (Never believe anything in politics until it has been officially denied.)
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To: mojito

how about illegal wetdream backs.


13 posted on 06/26/2012 12:39:43 PM PDT by biggredd1
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***He prefers economic refugee.***

Sorry, Charlie...nobody gives a rat’s @$$ what you prefer.


14 posted on 06/26/2012 12:41:03 PM PDT by MichaelCorleone (The GOPe has played us like a violin for the last time; high time to build the Constitution Party.)
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He prefers economic refugee.

Pfffft! A couple years ago, they were trying to change the term to "undocumented citizens." Don't change the language you use, people. One of the first things you learn in debate or law is if you can get the opposition to accept and use your terminology, you control the debate and have a much stronger position. Don't fall for it.

15 posted on 06/26/2012 12:41:03 PM PDT by Hoffer Rand (There ARE two Americas: "God's children" and the tax payers)
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To: TexasCajun
I honestly don't think the word "wetback" is a slur at all. Instead, it's a descriptive term rooted in an historical fact.

Furthermore, during President Eisenhower's administration, the very effective "Operation Wetback" campaign was in full force. I was in my early teens at the time and I don't recall any objections whatsoever to the name. In fact, all real Americans applauded the program and its positive outcome. Frankly, we need to have "Operation Wetback 2.0" now. With our improved technology, it can be even more productive today.

16 posted on 06/26/2012 12:42:54 PM PDT by re_nortex (DP...that's what I like about Texas.)
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To: mojito

illegal immigrant n. an alien (non-citizen) who has entered the United States without government permission or stayed beyond the termination date of a visa.


17 posted on 06/26/2012 12:47:00 PM PDT by gunsequalfreedom (Conservative is not a label of convenience. It is a guide to your actions.)
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To: mojito

“He prefers economic refugee. “

Should that be leaf blowing’ economic refugee?


18 posted on 06/26/2012 12:50:31 PM PDT by max americana (Make the world a better place by punching a liberal in the face)
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To: mojito
Truth is always “racist” to leftists. Any criticism of Obama or any other leftist (even white ones) is “racist”. The dirtbags don't realize that they wore out the race card years ago, and every time they play it they automatically reduce themselves to the level of racist buffoon Al Sharpton.
19 posted on 06/26/2012 12:50:47 PM PDT by ozzymandus
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To: mojito

"Criminal Invaders..."


20 posted on 06/26/2012 12:51:28 PM PDT by TXnMA ("Allah": Satan's current alias...)
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