Bring Proper English Back To Public Discourse. And The Mayor Of Chicago Is A Retard

"Illegal Alien" is a legal term to describe someone who has entered this country illegally, or who has overstayed legal, temporary permission to enter the country. There is no racial connotation. There is no sex connotation. There is no class connotation. It is a neutral term that is a perfect descriptor!

But the left has always made one of the tenets of its malign philosophy the destruction of traditional, logical language. George Orwell wrote about it at length, and 80 years later his thoughts are fresh and prescient, in particular in Politics And The English Language, and 1984.

Orwell would recognize the idiotic and incompetent mayor of Chicago as one of the foot soldiers in the left's battle against the English language!

Chicago Mayor Spazzes Out Over 'Racist' Term 'Illegal Alien'

Johnson called the term "racist" and sarcastically suggested that he should also call black people "slaves."

Race...class... sex...religion...political philosophy...they are all fair game.

Of course, calling people "fascists" is nothing new. The communists of the 1930s threw that term around just as cavalierly as their modern versions. But now they have expanded the manipulation of language to include everyone who is even modestly at odds with their political ideology. Fly an American flag? You're a fascist. Put on a coat and tie to go to church? You're a racist. Believe in the rule of law? You are a Nazi! Believe in the right of Jews to live in peace in their ancestral homeland? You are a racist colonizer.

But these are not just pejoratives; they are part of a careful campaign to shift definitions of previously unacceptable behaviors to sound far more benign. "Illegal Alien" sounds bad, because it IS bad! "Undocumented Immigrant," or simply "Migrant," sounds like somebody who dropped their ID on the subway. That's not so bad! Let's be nice to him and pay for his $3,000 ER visits and SNAP benefits and cell phone and housing and maybe even give him a CDL so he can get a job and kill Americans on the roads!

Take back the language! "Illegal Alien." "Criminal." "Rapist." "Pedophile." "Rioter." "Adult." "Assault Rifle." "Woman." "Man."

These words have clear, precise meanings in our wonderful language. We cannot allow the left to blur those definitions, or we get nonsense like "Undocumented Newcomer," "Minor Attracted Person," "Gender Fluid," Mostly Peaceful," "Harm Reduction," "Our Precious Democracy," "Reproductive Freedom," and a host of other terms carefully chosen to blur reality with the ultimate goal of subverting traditional culture, law, religion, and rational social opprobrium.

Simply using clear language to describe our many cultural, social, and political issues will go a long way towards solving them.

posted by CBD at 12:00 PM

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