Comment on 20 states sue Biden admin over illegals
FfaerieOxide@kbin.social 2 months agoyou missed the word sometimes.
Can you explain how referring to a human being as "an illegal" can ever not be derogatory? 🤔
Comment on 20 states sue Biden admin over illegals
FfaerieOxide@kbin.social 2 months agoyou 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
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.
jimbolauski@lemm.ee 2 months ago
It’s no different than calling a person a citizen. Your inability to understand the definition of illegal does not change its definition.
FfaerieOxide@kbin.social 2 months ago
A citizen is a thing a person can be. It's also a noun.
"Illegal" is not a thing a person can be.
Actions can be against laws but humans cannot.
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.
jimbolauski@lemm.ee 2 months ago
Illegals is just shortened illegal immigrant, just like temporary nonimigrant workers are called migrants. The negative connotation is yours.
FfaerieOxide@kbin.social 2 months ago
They are migrants because they migrate. They aren't "illegals" because irrespective of the status of their presence according to those that claim dominion of the land they are on they are not themselves illegal.