Last month, the administration said the U.S. will let up to 360,000 people per year enter the country from four countries. A lawsuit filed Tuesday claims the policy is illegal.
I can’t change how you feel about a group nor can I change the definition of a word. It’s a shame you only see a person’s immigration status there’s more to an illegal than how they entered the country.
there’s more to an illegal than how they entered the country.
You’re going to have to explain what the word means to me then, because the phrase by itself doesn’t even seem to refer to immigration status at all and I don’t know what you mean by it.
One that doesn’t fit with your later claim that it isn’t derogatory so both assertions cannot be true.
There is nothing in the definition that says illegal is a derogatory term. Remember when you forgot about the word sometimes.
The word you used doesn’t even mention people so what is it to which you are referring when you use it?
The first 3 words in the definition of illegal are “a person who”. When I say illegal I’m referring to a person who has entered or resides in the US illegally.
There is nothing in the definition that says illegal is a derogatory term.
There very much is, even if we limit our definitions to the one which you gave me. I pointed as much out to you 23 hours ago.
When I say illegal I’m referring to a person who has entered or resides in the US illegally.
That isn’t what that word means except as a slur which your very precious dictionary even cops to.
You still have not answered my inquest regarding how using an adjective as a noun to refer to a person could be anything other than dehumanizing as you still claim that it can potentially be.
But they aren’t illegal_s_ as that renders the phrase a reference to the people themselves and not their actions.
To refer to people as illegal is dehumanizing.
Just because you look down on a group of people doesn’t make the term to describe them dehumanizing.
Just because you can’t differenciate between a term for immigration status and the people with that status doesn’t change what the term means.
Doesn’t make it not dehumanizing—since it is—and it certainly doesn’t help your arguments it isn’t.
I can’t change how you feel about a group nor can I change the definition of a word. It’s a shame you only see a person’s immigration status there’s more to an illegal than how they entered the country.
You’re going to have to explain what the word means to me then, because the phrase by itself doesn’t even seem to refer to immigration status at all and I don’t know what you mean by it.
I gave you the definition of illegal here.
https://lemm.ee/comment/11217295
One that doesn’t fit with your later claim that it isn’t derogatory so both assertions cannot be true.
The word you used doesn’t even mention people so what is it to which you are referring when you use it?
There is nothing in the definition that says illegal is a derogatory term. Remember when you forgot about the word sometimes.
The first 3 words in the definition of illegal are “a person who”. When I say illegal I’m referring to a person who has entered or resides in the US illegally.
There very much is, even if we limit our definitions to the one which you gave me. I pointed as much out to you 23 hours ago.
That isn’t what that word means except as a slur which your very precious dictionary even cops to.
You still have not answered my inquest regarding how using an adjective as a noun to refer to a person could be anything other than dehumanizing as you still claim that it can potentially be.
I don’t look down on the group. I look down on their actions. I don’t like criminal behavior.