Monday, March 14, 2011

legal earthlings

Today, the term
"illegal aliens"
seems to have taken the place of several of the old, dated, Archie-Bunker-era racial epithets.
I was thinking that's an improvement, because at least it isn't so rude & crude,
but then I thought maybe that's not an improvement because
"illegal aliens" has just become the phrase which many people who are information-free
simply apply
verbally
to describe any person who looks different from them.
And because it isn't as rude, crude, and offensive as some of the old words, maybe it's more insidious, because more people are willing to say it.

(Some of those old racial epithets are just like swearing or obscenity, in many people's value-system; on the other hand, no one's going to advise you to wash your mouth out with soap if you say, "illegal aliens.")
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When I think of aliens, mostly picture "little green men" with antennas sticking up out of their heads.
They say, in funny voices like buzzing elecricity,
"Take us to your leader!"

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