Comment on Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz: Proponent of Licenses for Illegal Aliens

laverabe@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

• DannyBoy@sh.itjust.works ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  The word “alien” was used for people from a foreign country well before it was used for extra-terrestrials.

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  • laverabe@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    yeah but it ceased being used 8 years ago by the US government because of it’s use as a derogatory term and the dehumanizing effect it has.

    Words tend to have a liquid definition over a period of decades. Take the british term for cigarettes that most people know and what it now means; innocent words tend to very easily become weaponized, seemingly moreso in modern times.

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    • BobaFuttbucker@reddthat.com ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      These are conservatives you’re talking to, they don’t take kindly to change or social progress.

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    • wintermute_oregon@lemm.ee ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Not it’s still used by the government. It’s the legal term.

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    • Amoxtli@thelemmy.club ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Middle English: via Old French from Latin alienus ‘belonging to another’, from alius ‘other

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• wintermute_oregon@lemm.ee ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Huh? The word alien doesn’t mean from outer space. They are illegal aliens.

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• wesker@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I find this take a little alienating.

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