Reply #148: Im trying not to assume anything [View All]

[tinanator]

Just laying out the facts in these parts and my experience. There are many facets to discussions like these, and they are complicated by overlapping issues with divergent agendas, or is it vice versa?. I dont find "illegals" as objectionable as Wetback or a dozen other terms more frequently applied by racist church goers. A term that was in use in the 70's, perhaps as an alternative to wetback or what have you, was "nationals" and it was applied to the carloads of Mexican
farmworkers who would blow through stop signs in rural areas of grape vineyards and give you some hair raising scares if they didnt kill you outright. Reminiscent of the PETA discussion, poking at a term or topic because something bothers you may not be the most productive way of reaching a solution to an actual problem, but rather a way of creating a new problem/distraction out of whole cloth.