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    From Aaron Thomas@1:123/525 to All on Tue Jun 4 08:32:16 2019
    Many people, including BBS people, politicians, and news reporters, are
    getting it wrong with political terminology. Let's see where the problem is:

    Conservatives use these terms:
    immigrant-- someone who has entered the US lawfully
    illegal immigrant-- someone who has entered the US illegally
    legal US resident-- someone who has come legally to stay permanently kidnapper-- someone who takes someone child without asking

    Liberals use them more liberally:
    immigrant-- someone who has entered the US, lawfully or not
    illegal immigrant-- racist slang, invented by the KKK
    legal US resident-- the kind of immigrant that libs hate & never talk about parent-- title given to undocumented kidnappers to make them feel good

    If I break into someone's home, kill people, and steal things, conservatives would probably call me a "criminal." But liberal headlines would read
    something like "Hungry, poor man tries to get ahead in the world."

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  • From Mike Powell@1:2320/105 to Aaron Thomas on Tue Jun 4 18:49:00 2019
    If I break into someone's home, kill people, and steal things, conservatives would probably call me a "criminal." But liberal headlines would read something like "Hungry, poor man tries to get ahead in the world."

    But not if you used a gun to do the killing.

    Mike

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