Are Canadians wetbacks?
Is wetback acceptable, since people of any race could have swam across the rio grande?
I don't think so, illegal is illegal.
Alein is alein.
Illegal alein,
No need to call racial names just facts.
Is wetback acceptable, since people of any race could have swam across the rio grande?
You seem to be trying your damnedest to equate "illegals" with some kind of racial connotation. As it was explained already multiple times it is not that kind of term, nor is it offensive.
Give it up already. :roll:
Given that illegal aliens can be of any race, its imposisble to assign any such connotation.You seem to be trying your damnedest to equate "illegals" with some kind of racial connotation. As it was explained already multiple times it is not that kind of term, nor is it offensive.
Give it up already. :roll:
It's not that i see it as racially offensive, so much as I see it as dehumanizing.
Whats an alein? Sounds like french cheese.
Well according to Websters,
Alien- remote, adverse, foreign, strange. outsider.
Did you want the definision of illegal as well?
We generally don't have many water borders with Canada. I guess if an illegal canadian immigrant swam across Lake Superior...
Then, you are suggesting that the term Wetback is a REGIONAL term that speaks to geographic conditions on our southern border?
You dont unsderstand!So is the term "criminal" dehumanizing? "Convicted Felon?" "Convict?" etc etc.
"Illegals" is just a term for a criminal, nothing more nothing less.
You dont unsderstand!
You simply can NOT hurt other people's feelings!
I was talking about "alein", not "alien".
How do you define the term
There's a simple way for them to deal with all that supposed de-humanization:Mostly, i think if we dehumanize them, if we stop keeping in mind that these are people with all that comes with it, it will be reflected in the policy.
Mostly, i think if we dehumanize them, if we stop keeping in mind that these are people with all that comes with it, it will be reflected in the policy.
Illegal immigrant or Illegal alien does that, but defining them as "illegal" with no qualifier does dehumanize them. It removes any human context.
Question: is the term "convicted felon" similarly "dehumanizing"?
How do you define the term