Reply #173: Calling them deportees... [View All]

[Zomby Woof]

...lended itself to the radio announcer implying their deaths were unimportant, not really tragic. Nothing for red-blooded white American folks to get blue about.

"Oh, it was just deportees". Yes, I know, that is what they are in a very legalistic sense. But it's a way of stripping them of their humanity so that dying in a plane crash doesn't sound so horrible.

Modern day equivalent: "150 died today on an Arizona highway. But don't worry folks, it was just some illegals."

See? Reduce PEOPLE to a legalistic euphemism, and we can just shrug our shoulders at their demise and check the tube to see who got voted off of American Idol.