RE: Andrew Zimmern, "What's Eating America"..
February 17, 2020 at 10:11 pm
(This post was last modified: February 17, 2020 at 10:12 pm by BrianSoddingBoru4.)
(February 17, 2020 at 8:49 pm)Brian37 Wrote:(February 17, 2020 at 8:34 pm)BrianSoddingBoru4 Wrote: Yes, it was her answer, not her question (and you haven’t answered mine, by the way). I accept the correction.
I think you may be confused about the difference between ‘migrant’ and ‘immigrant’. All immigrants are migrants, but not all migrants are immigrants. More words you should look up.
Boru
I am sorry, my computer doesn't have a "Closed Caption " for contrarians.
She was right, you are wrong.
"Migrant "immigrant" to the right is the same thing, the same fucking thing it was to bigoted Americans who feared the Chinese who helped build the railroads in the 1800s. "migrant" "immigrant" was the same fear Americans had with the Irish and Italians in the early 1900s.
If you suddenly stopped using the Fox News slur "immigrant" and said "migrant" those assholes would still find a way to use "otherism" to get ratings.
And it still would not change that they work their asses off, with or without papers.
I didn’t say she was wrong, mate. I said her comment was stupid.
‘Immigrant’ is not a slur. ‘Illegal immigrant’ probably is, though. And you’ve never seen me use either term in a derogatory manner.
I agree these people work hard. Brutally hard. Body-destroyingly hard. Did I give the impression that I felt otherwise? Whatever these people are being paid, it isn’t enough, not by a damned sight.
Boru
‘But it does me no injury for my neighbour to say there are twenty gods or no gods. It neither picks my pocket nor breaks my leg.’ - Thomas Jefferson