Drink up
Posted on 02/03/2008 1:34:05 AM PST by forkinsocket
Here's one: Latin American Network Information Center
If that's not good enough, I can't fix ignorant
Drink up
Very strange. I think it’s safe to assume that most of the students had never heard of the term “wetback,” which, for one thing, was rarely used in the Northeast where most of them probably come from, and secondly, is somewhat dated and hasn’t really been in general use for a long time. So I think explaining the term to them is certainly reasonable.
But what’s reason got to do with it?
I still use it in public conversations. In Texas since this is a personal gun carry state, people do not physically cahllenge others in their exercise of free speech.
In most of the Rio Grande there is water flowing most of the year. Ever wade acoss waist deep water. You get your back wet!
Sounds like some northern gringos need to get a life.
The left is trying to destroy one more White male who does not belong to a government-sponsored victim group.
Everything that a White male does is subject to the scrutiny of the thought police, and the White male will always be found guilty.
As another poster says, Al Qaeda is the least of our worries.
What is you guys’ point? You’re both right — Mexico is in “Latin America” and Mexico is in “North America.” It’s not something to fight about.
In a PC world where reason is abandoned to be replaced by pluralism so that the historic reality that "wetbacks" are from Mexico and is a pejorative term is now a crime
Maybe I should use the “F” word in a post, but I have no problem with censoring in this matter or in the case of the “F” word.
Its so hypocritical because if I were non-white I could use the “N” word with liberty and not be criticized.
Examples like this make me worry for the future of this grand experiment. Seems we are going to multi-culti ourselves into extinction.
If the professor was attempting to educate, then the student who complained is the one who needs ‘re-education’.
I’m sick to death of the idiots and apologists who have been successfully rewriting history and civics texts for the past 50 years or so. The substance of education, beyond the basic principles of arithmetic, reading and writing is to build critical thinking skills, not indoctrinate to a state standard.
As we’re told, if we choose to ignore (the truth of) history, we are doomed to its repitition. Sad...we know what is right, but still choose some other path.
Lock and Load.
It just about sums up the situation.
No fight, just clarification.
We have no clue up here as to what is coming with the Chicanos and all. Yep my home town is a little hamlet on the bank of the Rio Grande, El Paso.
I must have missed something. Is there a debate the proper way to refer to Mexico?
Yes, some people are debating it. I don’t see a reason for debate. Some people call it part of Latin America. Others call it part of North America. Both are right....
Puts me in mind of the Mamet play, “Oleanna” (which I had the pleasure of seeing in its original run). STAY AWAY from the film version with William H. Macy, however.
Send him to the cornfield.
Political Correctness will destroy this nation.
What the Brits, Japanese, Communists and Nazis could not do with the cost of many lives, PC will do without firing a shot.
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