B'ham News Compares Use of Term "Illegals" to Using the N-Word (Barf Alert)

The Birmingham News ^ | 5/04/06 | John Archibald

[TomGuy]

correction:

Mencina = Mencia

[robertpaulsen]

"It came from a Hispanic kid at Hayes High School, a girl named Juanita who wrote it a while back "

She wrote it in what language? Just curious.

[isrul]

Trying to make this a discussion about "immigrants" is the red herring. The people in question are aliens. They are here illegally. Illegal is accurate, appropriate, and in some cases, way too kind.

[Argus]

Tio means uncle in Spanish, so a Tio Taco is the literal equivalent to Uncle Tom. It's the slur invented by chicano activists to libel anybody of Mexican ancestry who didn't agree with their extremist program.

[isrul]

In discussing illegal aliens, his term makes no sense. Just a word meant to intimidate and silence.

[VeniVidiVici]

Now don't get me wrong. The issues of immigration are complex and overwhelming. Problems exist and our laws need work. I can't solve those. You wouldn't want me to.

I love it. All of the illegal apologists, apologize.

[steve8714]

Steel.

[SF Republican]

I saw an advertisement recently for a group of Hispanic Accountants and instantly thought Bean-counting Beaners.

[okie01]

No one actually called her those things. She wrote them down because she felt that's what people might call her.

Actually, it's what the reporter says she wrote down.

And that's presuming the reporter didn't invent Juanita, in the first place.

Frankly, I smell a column created out of wishful bong smoke...

[brytlea]

Because being a victim is encouraged. I mean, if you aren't a victim, life is pretty dull.....
susie

[tfecw]

'Don't you see that the whole aim of Newspeak is to narrow the range of thought? -1984

PC is ungood.

[Onelifetogive]

It came from a Hispanic kid... a girl named Juanita who wrote it a while back and gave it to Nancy Rhodes. It was part of an exercise dealing with the damage caused by ethnic jokes and stereotypes. The words, the horrid words, spelled out the insults Juanita would expect from those who dislike her skin tone, her heritage, her accent enough to hate her before they even get to know her.

Since you pretended like I insulted you, can't you also pretend that I apologized?

[freedumb2003]

Now don't get me wrong. The issues of immigration are complex and overwhelming. Problems exist and our laws need work. I can't solve those. You wouldn't want me to.

You got that right. I wouldn't let an idiot like you (the author) balance a bank book, much less address an issue like illegal immigration, which DOES have a simple solution.

[stylin19a]

nope..."gringo" doesn't sting. Your words got to STING ! damn it!

[DumpsterDiver]

ping

[Oliver Optic]

The insults she would "expect" to hear.

Yes, my friend, we are expected to writhe in self-loathing guilt because of a string of racist epithets this gal "would expect" to hear.

Pretty strange, no?

[Oliver Optic]

Birmingham News (Barf Alert)

A redundancy.

[Sister_T]

"Illegals" is now the epithet of choice. Just use it in place of the n-word.

Wrong! "Illegal" describes their status of citizenship in this country. Claiming that it is the same as saying the n-word is just pandering!

[Gefreiter]

"torture=being mean to prisoners"

Perfect example. Did you know that as far as Amnesty International is concerned, having a hood put over your head or being shackled is "torture"? Even having a dog in the vicinity of an interrogation is now "torture". Just has to be there. Go read one of their reports sometime.

I'm sure there are men who checked into the Hanoi Hilton who wish that all the NVA did to them was to put a hood over their head, or have dogs bark at them.