Tuesday, January 01, 2019

Is Facebook "Outlawing" The Terms 'Illegal Immigrant' and 'Illegal Alien'?

Maybe.
   The left has been squawking about the legal term 'illegal alien' for years. Then they started in on 'illegal immigrant', using the following absurd argument:
'Illegal immigrant' means that the very person in question is illegal qua person;
But no person qua person is illegal.
Therefore 'illegal immigrant' is naughty. 
Of course that's about as dumb as the rest of their arguments. 'Illegal immigrant' in no way entails that the person is illegal qua person (whatever that would mean).  To call x an illegal immigrant is to say that x has immigrated illegally, on analogy to 'illegal contractor,' for example. 
Honestly, the left has become a cesspool of stupid. 
They're obsessed with words, and their goal, obviously, is to insist on ever more euphemistic euphemisms until all reference to illegality is gone and we're all referring to them as "the legalest Americans" or somesuch.

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