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Why do people always refer to foreign people as aliens? It sounds so degrading and shitty.
Deep cultural xenophobia leads to dehumanization
The word literally means "not from here." In the bible, Jesus tells us to be kind to the alien among us, and he wasn't talking about men from Mars.
But it's 100% intended for making people think of scary monsters from other planets.
It's a deliberate dehumanization tactic as old as organized xenophobia itself.
The way they pronounce “foreigners” is practically just as humiliating.
At any rate the lawyer in this article is a natural born citizen of American citizens. But I don’t think that protects her either at the moment. Hopefully the uprising that would happen if she was kidnapped would be so overwhelming as to stop the whole thing.
So let’s uprise now and stop it. See you Saturday.
leads to? try is.
It predates aliens as little green men. And I'm sure the word is a legally recognized phrase. It's quickly becoming, if not already a slur though. Here's googles etymological breakdown.
The word "alien" originates from the Latin word "aliễnus," meaning "belonging to another, foreign, strange". It's a derivative of "alius," meaning "other," ultimately tracing back to the Proto-Indo-European root "h,élyos. This root also gives rise to the word "else". The word "alien" entered Middle English from Old French, and its earliest usage as a noun and adjective in the 14th century referred to foreigners or strangers.
Don't bring the predator into this!
BECAUSE it sounds so degrading and shitty.
It's easier to make scared people hate innocent strangers when you make them sound inhuman and frightening.
It's the same tactic hateful demagogues have used since before recorded time began.
It is degrading and shitty and you bet your bottom dollar they know it. They use this language as just a smaller part of the larger machine the right wing government uses to gather tone deaf and ignorant citizens and encourage them to hegemonize people who don't look like them. I'll tell you that for free.
They aren't people. They're filthy fucking nazi trash.
https://www.etymonline.com/word/alien
Any degradation is a modern connotation.
Because the world is older than you are.
us aliens also have an Alien Number on our green cards so we can be dehumanized while being dehumanized
Misunderstanding the meaning of words is so alien to me.