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Yep. The INS even initiated a program called "Operation " to catch and deport illegals.
Yep. The INS even initiated a program called "Operation " to catch and deport illegals.
Even into the 60's major newspapers like the New York Times were still using the phrase.
Well, there was Operation to round up and deport illegals in 1954.
None of this excuses what the congressman said.
lol Alaska
Only in that he is a congressman and should be smart enough to know that political correctness is the order of the day. God forbid we should disparage illegal aliens.
leave the old cracker alone. in about half a century his seat will probably be filled by the son of anyway.
They have s in Alaska? Doesn't it get too cold there?...
They probably call them icebacks.They have s in Alaska? Doesn't it get too cold there?...
They have s in Alaska? Doesn't it get too cold there?...
even more reason to go there. trailer trash isn't going to work out there for peanuts. someone has to do it.
And conservatives wonder why they can't win the Hispanic vote....
And conservatives wonder why people like Chumpy can't see the difference between Mexican-Americans and illegal immigrants.
I didn't read article so I'm wondering where Daddy's ranch was where the illegals worked.They have s in Alaska? Doesn't it get too cold there?...
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This is why you guys couldn't defeat one of the most vulnerable in bents in US history.
I am on record in here saying that there needs to be a path to citizenship for illegals currently here, but you are showing the usual liberal condescension in equating legal mexican-american hispanics with illegals just because they are all "brown".
And it wasn't just the hispanic vote. As Lyndon Johnson said in the 60's “I’ll have those ******s voting Democratic for the next 200 years.”
No, I'm simply recognizing that Hispanics don't really give a about your rationalizing the use of a term that is offensive to them.
Republicans lost in no small part due to old white men whining about things like this.
I'm not rationalizing the use. I pointed out the FACT that it was a common mainstream term at least into the 60's.
I'll argue that what you're missing is that a good chunk of those illegals are closely related to the mexican-americans, and that's not necessary a liberal construction. Some of those mexican-americans were illegals themselves at some point or somewhere down the family chain. Hurling racial epithets like that oftentimes goes beyond just the illegals right now. Then again, the GOP thinks a Cuban-American somehow legitimizes their position with hispanics, which again shows the complete disconnect, IMO.
Then you tried to mitigate any use of it today because it was used for illegals -- that's it's OK to use on Mexicans that are illegals.
Hispanics disagree. Rather strongly, it seems.
The guy is 80. He accidentally used a term that was common and accepted the first half of his life and became politically incorrect in the second half. It was dumb, but hardly worthy of your fake partisan outrage.
No outrage here. I'm merely pointing out that the kind of excuse making you continue to engage in here is why the Republicans are looking for ways to give their party an extreme makeover.
Maybe in the segragated bathrooms that CC and WC were hanging out in 50 years ago it was okay but they were at oldest children back then so how the do they know?
Further, while hanging out in Augusta it may have been cool to refer to s, s, s, and any other term of derision, it was probably not the case at Grambling or similar ins utions.
My grandparents and their brothers and cousins etc all talked like that but I never thought that anyone other than other white people thought it was cool even back then. I just figured there wasn't that team brown could do about it.
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