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Yeah, there are a lot of xenophobes on FR.

Xenophobe is one of those labels thrown around, like "racist", "sexist", etc. to get people to shut up and accept whatever agenda the labeler wants to promote. Well, guess what - you're on a conservative activists' web forum, and one of the goals of most conservatives is to prevent our culture, and thus our country, from being dismantled by the corrosive influence of such things as multi-culturalism. As a US Senator, Martinez was out of line giving a speech in his offical capacity on the Senate floor in Spanish. Either he is an American, and conducts official business as one, or else he is just another part of the problem.

Xenophobe is one of those labels thrown around, like "racist", "sexist", etc. to get people to shut up and accept whatever agenda the labeler wants to promote.

And sometimes the term is throw around to help the reader understand the truth.

Xenophobe is one of those labels thrown around, like "racist", "sexist", etc. to get people to shut up and accept whatever agenda the labeler wants to promote. Well, guess what - you're on a conservative activists' web forum, and one of the goals of most conservatives is to prevent our culture, and thus our country, from being dismantled by the corrosive influence of such things as multi-culturalism. As a US Senator, Martinez was out of line giving a speech in his offical capacity on the Senate floor in Spanish. Either he is an American, and conducts official business as one, or else he is just another part of the problem.

My ultimate priority is to battle in the arena of ideas. The language use to communicate those ideas is trivial. Western liberal culture will survive despite the fact that someone speaking Spanish supports it. (That was a wierd sentence to have to right).

Furthermore, I wholly reject that Senator Martinez is part of the problem for supporting Mr. Gonzalez. Methinks the real problem you have is not the ideas of Sen. Martinez and Mr. Gonzalez, but their last names.

Xenophon was a great and brilliant man.

If the foolish Greeks had listened to him they might not have had their civilization overrun, pillaged and their people enslaved.

Using Xenophobic as an insult is like calling someone Jeffersonian as an insult.

Xenophobe is one of those labels thrown around, like "racist", "sexist", etc. to get people to shut up and accept whatever agenda the labeler wants to promote.

Sometimes, and sometimes it is apt.

Just like the other terms are properly applied in certain situations.