Comment on Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz: Proponent of Licenses for Illegal Aliens
DannyBoy@sh.itjust.works 1 month agoThe word “alien” was used for people from a foreign country well before it was used for extra-terrestrials.
Comment on Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz: Proponent of Licenses for Illegal Aliens
DannyBoy@sh.itjust.works 1 month agoThe word “alien” was used for people from a foreign country well before it was used for extra-terrestrials.
laverabe@lemmy.world 1 month 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.
BobaFuttbucker@reddthat.com 1 month ago
These are conservatives you’re talking to, they don’t take kindly to change or social progress.
wintermute_oregon@lemm.ee 1 month ago
Not it’s still used by the government. It’s the legal term.
Amoxtli@thelemmy.club 1 month ago
Middle English: via Old French from Latin alienus ‘belonging to another’, from alius ‘other