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I like how this still implies that it's only wrong because he had a legal situation.
After all illegal immigrants are not really human, right?
The term is illegal ALIENS. Makes it extra racist.
The word comes from the Latin alius meaning other
Apologetic much? Dehuminization is dehuminization in my books.
Lol, I made no judgement about the use of the word, merely giving the etymology. I'm sorry you misinterpreted me as defending xenophobia.
From the Greek xeno meaning strange.
Maybe read the room a little before posting. My sarcasm, in this case, is very warranted, but you "correcting" me with an etymology lesson really makes you look apologetic. Why would you post something so irrelevant to the conversation?
Yet amerika is the only country ive ever heard that uses that term. Funny that all the countries that have latin as a base for the language dont dehumanise people with that word.