Posted on 01/09/2019 4:01:17 PM PST by mgstarr
Victor Espinosa, a lecturer in sociology at Ohio State University, has been telling students that they are forbidden from using the term ‘illegal immigrant’ to describe immigrants who did not enter the country through the legal method. Because – drum roll – it is offensive.
Mr Espinosa has written to at least one student telling them they ‘will not be allowed to use the term illegal to refer to an unauthorized immigrant’ because it ‘dehumanizes, marginalizes and racializes the people it seeks to describe.’
In his wisdom and generosity, Espinosa grants that students may use the term illegal immigration – ‘since it describes a social process’ – but ‘you will not be allowed to use the term illegal to refer to a human being.
‘Hi Hannah,
‘Welcome to the class! Very interesting post. In your post you used the term “illegal immigrants”. You should know that in this class, students will not be allowed to use the word “illegal” to refer to an unauthorized immigrant. The use of the term “illegal” by politicians and news media outlets to refer to an unauthorized immigrant, not only criminalizes undocumented workers, but it also dehumanizes, marginalizes, and racializes the people it seeks to describe.
‘In this class you can use the term illegal immigration, which describes a social process, but you will not be allowed to use the word “illegal” to refer to a human being. Starting next week, any assignment or discussion post that uses the word “illegal immigrant” to refer to an unauthorized immigrant will not be accepted.
‘Please see me in my office or send me an email if you have any questions about the organization of the class or assignment guidelines.
‘Thanks for taking this class!
‘Victor Espinosa’
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We have illegals here from nearly every country in the world, illegal is not a race it is an immigration status. Legally they are illegal aliens, or (Name of country) Nationals.
Illegal means not legal, nothing else.
Will Victor Espinosa support illegals taking the jobs of democrats in DC?
This “professor” needs a good sound horsewhipping, not a feedback letter.
“Wow, so that really was your point. You’re wistful for the days of night rides, lynchings, etc.? If I’m wrong here let me know. I would prefer to be wrong.”
Wistful? Really? Like many people, I have been cudgeling my few remaining brain cells to try and come up with some way to improve things. In such an attempt, vigilantism must be considered, even if it is at last rejected.
“I’m still naive to think we can win the argument for free speech and the rule of law.”
I wish I had even a tiny suspicion that you might be right, but that train has sailed.
It’s not rocket surgery. This is not a dispute between different political approaches. This is the latest battle in the war between good and evil. Very, very few of the evil will straighten themselves out. The vast majority will continue laboring to force evil upon us until they draw their last breaths.
“Of course you’re not going to bring many people to your side by making wistful posts about the KKK.”
Wistful again? You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means.
The point I was attempting to make is that our position is increasingly similar to that of Reconstruction Era southerners. No one in government is looking out for us (except DJT). Americans are raped and killed, and the uniparty doesn’t give a furry little rat’s patoot.
Got a plan?
How does “illegal immigrant” or “illegal ALIEN” racialize anybody??? There are thousands of Irish illegal aliens living in this country right now.
That’s right, Mr. Essssssspinoza, there are WHITE illegal aliens in this country!
Just wait until he finds out that the name Hannah comes straight from the Holy Bible. Imagine the triggering then!
One student weighed in: "It made me feel my free speech was being violated,’ said Hannah Emerson. "I was upset.
He told me that the term 'illegal' to describe individuals who crossed the border illegally was dehumanizing and racist.
I feel like he called me a racist, bad person if I used the term."
I was using wistful to indicate a longing or yearning for and/or being nostalgic for something. That may not be accurate about your true feelings, but I think I used the word correctly based upon my intent.
“I think I used the word correctly based upon my intent.”
I see.
I did not want to think that you intended to say such a thing about me. I wanted to think that conservatives are better than that.
This illustrates one of the things that is so wrong with the thinking of many Americans today. It reminds me of the demonstration last year, when President Trump was castigated for failing to place all the blame on one side and praise the other.
Only an absolute, black and white view would satisfy the complainers. Only an “all on the left are angels; all to their right are demons” position could be acceptable.
For you, apparently, my failure to explicitly and emphatically exclude the possibility that the KKK might ever have done anything laudable, even once, even by accident, must mean that I am a scoundrel who is “wistful” for their every evil deed.
It’s a tyranny of thought that I like to hope is confined to the lock-step ideologues of the left.
Look, I’m not an ideologue about this, that’s why I let you clarify yourself and didn’t condemn you. If I were a liberal we wouldn’t be able to have this conversation. With that said, I still don’t agree with your post primarily because I think it’s counter-productive. Most people are, at best, going to look at you sideways when you invoke the KKK and any point you intended to make will be lost. You can lament that all you want, but it is still reality.
“Most people are, at best, going to look at you sideways when you invoke the KKK and any point you intended to make will be lost. You can lament that all you want, but it is still reality.”
They looked at me sideways in 1982 when I discovered that the media are terribly biased. (I don’t mean to say that I was the first to realize it; just that I had to discover it for myself.)
Speaking some truths may seem counterproductive in the short run, but if freedom of speech survives, people will eventually catch up. Even now, someone may be wondering if what they were taught about this might be another leftwad narrative rather than accurate history.
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