In your rush to win the most outraged contest you missed the word sometimes.
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FfaerieOxide@kbin.social 2 months agodisparaging + offensive
Ooooo, OP is being a bigot? That's unfortunate. Here I was giving benefit of the doubt.
jimbolauski@lemm.ee 2 months ago
FfaerieOxide@kbin.social 2 months ago
you missed the word sometimes.
Can you explain how referring to a human being as "an illegal" can ever not be derogatory? 🤔
jimbolauski@lemm.ee 2 months ago
Easy it is a label to describe immigration status, like citizen, permanent resident, temporary nonimigrant workers (migrant),…
Immigrating into a country illegally means that person is guess what an illegal immigrant or illegal for short. Your negative views of the word illegal don’t change their status.
FfaerieOxide@kbin.social 2 months ago
Easy it is a label to describe immigration status
It isn't being used that way (to describe a status). It is being used to describe a person as "illegal".
A person being documented or not by a group which claims political authority over a geographic area does not make that person illegal.
ChokingHazard63@sh.itjust.works 2 months ago
Nobody’s trying to say they aren’t illegal immigrants. But using derogatory terms is unnecessary and won’t bring a lot of people to your side.
Blamemeta@lemm.ee 2 months ago
Its a little rude but these are illegal immigrants we’re talking about. They dont deserve a lot of respect.
ChokingHazard63@sh.itjust.works 2 months ago
Criminals deserve basic human rights too or all anything a tyrannical government has to do is define you as “illegal” and they can carry you off never to be seen again. With those rights ought to come at least the minimal respect a human life deserves.
Blamemeta@lemm.ee 2 months ago
Theres a hell of a difference between rude namecalling and not respecting basic human rights.
ChokingHazard63@sh.itjust.works 2 months ago
And watching you use one to chip away at the other is tiring.
FfaerieOxide@kbin.social 2 months ago
You don't think all humans are worthy of dignity and respect?
Some would consider that terrible of you.
wintermute_oregon@lemm.ee 2 months ago
Not according to the left. Remember when Trump caught Covid and the left wished him death? Or when his brother died and the left cheered?
FfaerieOxide@kbin.social 2 months ago
What relation does your mental conception of what some nebulous "the left" did-or-did-not do have to the discussion we are having here in c/conservative about whether the use of dehumanizing terms to refer to human beings is laudable?
Further, is wishing that someone you perceive as having an immense power and direct negative impact on you and your community would lose that power—even via dying—really comparable to dehumanizing an entire class of people?