Posted on 12/11/2015 4:21:09 PM PST by markomalley
The University of Maryland is sponsoring a poster campaign encouraging students to refer to illegal immigrants as “undocumented citizens.”
The inaccurate term, first noted by Campus Reform, is promoted by the school’s “Inclusive Language Campaign,” which is throwing up posters around campus to encourage the use of friendlier language.
UMD’s Multicultural Involvement and Community Advocacy office, an official organ of the university, is running the campaign. The posters tell students that “words have power” and people should be cautious, lest they offend people with the terms they use.
“Would you say [illegal alien] if you knew I am an undocumented citizen?” the poster asks passersby.
Nicole Mehta, the program director of UMD’s Common Ground Multicultural Dialogue Program, told Campus Reform the term “undocumented citizen” was deliberate, and was chosen based on surveys of students.
“The use of ‘undocumented citizen’ (along with other terms such as undocumented individuals, immigrants, etc.) seeks to avoid dehumanization of an entire group of individuals,” Mehta said.
Of course, “undocumented citizen” makes no sense as a term, since illegal immigrants are not American citizens. The poster campaign discourages a host of other phrases, including “that’s so ghetto,” and “that’s so retarded.”
Nicely put. Trump would get my attention with that position.
since illegal immigrants are not American citizens
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They are not even immigrants, they are illegal aliens.
They are citizens of other countries who broke into ours.
Immigrants are people who applied in their home country to be Americas, paid their fees, waited their turn, learned the language, and complied with the laws.
We have a path to citizenship that millions have followed.
We should deport those who refuse to follow it.
they may be undocumented but they sure as HELL ain’t citizens (of USA, anyway)
stop teaching your students to lie, dam*it! and get back to math, science, art, and literature
The use of âundocumented citizenâ
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Is deliberate propaganda to obfuscate.
This really ticks me off, my citizenship means something to me as it should to all of us. Both of my parents served this country in uniform as did many generations before them.
It’s our country and the elites in this country are trying to give away our children’s birthright.
That’s so ghetto?
Obama has turned this whole country into a ghetto.
Even the term “illegal immigrant” should be strenuously objected to every time it is used. You can’t be an immigrant unless you are legally permitted to be one.
The use of ‘undocumented citizen’
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Should get somebody fired!
It’s not what you may think:
University of Maryland Board Votes to Rename Byrd Stadium
http://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory/university-maryland-board-votes-rename-byrd-stadium-35717040
Can we split the difference?
How about “illegal citizens”?
My Alma Mater is becoming another embarrassment to free peoples everywhere.
Maryland “Freak State” PING!
And drug pushers are undocumented pharmacists. Bank robbery is an undocumented withdrawal.
Newspeak
What they mean is “future citizens.”
If there was a crime of “Public Stupidity” the UM Administration would be serial felony offenders.
They are criminal invaders....every last one of them.
They aren’t immigrants they are illegal aliens
You can call ILLEGALS Undoumented guests, but they are DOCUMENTED CRIMINALS...
Go back into your shell, UMD.
At least you (UMD) fired Randy Edsel from his dream job...the only thing UMD did smart this year...
This in addition to cowering to PC to rename the stadium this very day.
And I see we have progressed yet again to another version of this phrase. Not even good enough to call them “undocumented workers”, now we must call them “undoc CITIZENS”!
I really hate this world we live in now.
They are so damn worried about “hating Mexicans”, but who cares if we hate America?
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