Posted on 08/07/2019 1:08:39 PM PDT by Kaslin
In the wake of the horrific mass shooting in El Paso, Texas, liberals have decided to ban another word: illegal immigrant. Despite the fact that it’s been used in the political lexicon for decades, it’s now seen as a call for violence…if you’re an unhinged liberal.
In journalism, illegal immigrant (or alien) was used—and nothing happened. Why? Well, because there’s a special class of people who commit these mass shootings, most are mentally ill. And in the case of El Paso, the shooter seemed like a loser fuming over the fact he lost a job opportunity at a local store. The manifesto reads like an extended comment thread on any website. He bashes Republicans, immigrants, and says that killing is necessary to ensure the sustainability of the planet. Yes, there are eco-terror ties in this so-called screed.
The views of the shooter predate Trump. They’re nothing new, but liberals, still being incapable of letting 2016 go, have blamed Trump, the NRA, the GOP, and anyone who doesn’t think like them for the shooting. And people wonder why polarization is so deep nowadays. It’s the Democrats who are the ones driving the wedge.
Anyway, Sunday’s episode of "Meet The Press" brought this whole "slam those who say ‘illegal immigrant’" nonsense to the forefront (via Newsbusters):
‘Meet the Press’ Talk: We Need to Condemn All Who Say ‘Illegal Immigrant’
According to frequent NBC and MSNBC guest, radical Princeton professor Eddie Glaude, not only should we condemn the President but we also needed to condemn anyone who used the term “illegal immigrant”.As NBC political director Chuck Todd turned to Glaude for his two cents, the MTP moderator lauded him for his past radical preaching’s. “I think in a good way making people uncomfortable when you would talk about it. In a way, it's like it's time to address it. We do see it shifted the conversation a bit,” Todd boasted.
“What does it mean to have a discourse in which people are dehumanized? Where you use a phrase like illegal immigrant,” Glaude bloviated. “Where the phrase itself places that person outside of a certain kind of sense of empathy and decency.”
Meanwhile, the liberal media has taken every opportunity to smear and label Trump voters as racist and worthy of contempt.
Glaude singled out former North Carolina Governor Pat McCrory, who was sitting at the table with him. “Children. You use this Governor, children carrying perhaps disease across the border. What happens? You set the stage for people who are even more on the extreme to act violently,” Glaude sneered.
“Governor, you can't condemn that without making the equivalency move,” Glaude angrily spat as he knocked on the tabled. The professor was upset because McCrory reminded the panel that left-wing terror organizations like Antifa existed (an organization that Todd had invited on to his shows before).
Oh, and that’s not even the worst of it. President Trump has ordered flags to fly half-staff until August 8th to honor those who lost their lives in the El Paso shooting and the one that occurred less than 24 hours later in Dayton. Yet, MSNBC analyst Frank Figliuzzi thought the gesture was a nod to Adolf Hitler. I’m not kidding. You know—because of the 8/8 (the eighth letter of the alphabet is HH = ‘Heil Hitler’). Yeah, they’re hitting the crack pipe hard over there today:
Frank Figliuzzi: Trump Failed By Not Directly Condemning White Supremacists
I won’t call them “immigrants”.
Trespasser? Unlawful enterers?
Haven’t these guys ever read the Federalist Papers? If you shut down all civil ways to address a grievance, violence escalates.
That’s easy, they aren’t illegal immigrants, they’re illegal aliens.
Be safe. Use the legal term: ILLEGAL ALIENS
I never use the word immigrant when referring to illegal aliens, so I guess I’m OK.....
I agree.
The accurate term is “illegal alien”.
Okay, Lawbreaking Foreign Citizens, then................
Lunacy is the least you can say.
Methinks our time is best spent on countering this nonsense.
It needs to stop because it is THEY who are the source of hate and division and violence. Now.
“What does it mean to have a discourse in which people are dehumanized?”
You mean like calling Trump supporters “white supremacists”?
They actually aren’t immigrants.
Immigrants have gone through a process to come and stay legally.
Absolutely right. They are ILLEGAL ALIENS
They have destroyed Europe. They are coming for us now. Remember how everyone here loved to talk about German or Swedish men not having any balls? Well?
Foreign criminal invader works for me
‘illegal aliens’ is a perfectly good legal term. I won’t stop using it.
https://www.fairus.org/issue/illegal-immigration/why-illegal-alien-correct-term
“Foreign Invaders”
I’ll go back to criminal aliens, then.
Here’s the good news of the day:
The New York Times Company tanks 20% after saying ad revenue will decline next quarter (NYT)
The New York Times Company tanks 20% after saying ad revenue will decline next quarter (NYT)
Good. i guess ILLEGAL ALIEN will work then !
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