What were you THINKING?

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@Left_Hand_of_Dorkness

After the since-disappeared thread where he spoke approvingly of shooting young children in the head and drowning immigrants in razor-water traps in rivers,

The remnants remain,

Dehumanizing language should not be allowed

The thread about using language like “invaders” to describe immigrants was derailed, imo, by the strawman that we’re not in the business of creating a banned words list. Attacking groups you don’t like by abstracting them to things like “invaders” or “insects” is a well worn tactic on the road to violence. We don’t need a list of proscribed terms but we should absolutely have a rule against that type of language. Edit: changed “people” to “groups” for clarity.

"Illegals" and "invaders" should be moderated as hate speech in the context of immigration debates

I’d like to talk about three terms that show up in discussions of immigration: Illegal immigrants Illegals Invaders (and “invasion”) First, “Illegal immigrants” is a term that is falling out of use among experts in the field. The DOJ no longer uses it. The AP Style Guide hasn’t used it for ten years. Linguists decry it as “neither accurate nor neutral”.But I don’t think it should be considered hate speech. It’s the equivalent of an outdated term like “Negro” to describe a Black person: use it…

Severe Hijack, about US borders, moved to pit

What, even at the border?

which contains these gems,

@Czarcasm

Denying legal asylum and setting up death traps in the river has nothing to do with law and order, and everything to do with sadistic cruelty.

@The_Other_Waldo_Pepper

And giving aid and comfort to illegal aliens by the million is, of course, more reprehensible still.

@Czarcasm

More reprehensible than injuring and killing refugees??

@The_Other_Waldo_Pepper

Ushering lawbreakers in by the million? Uh, yeah.

@The_Other_Waldo_Pepper

I genuinely despise illegal aliens of all races equally.