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These Should Not Require Saying
Nov. 21st, 2010 06:50 pm1. Anti-immigrant laws are anti-human.
2. Anti-immigrant laws are also racist.
3. Therefore anti-immigrant slurs are racial slurs.
4. And, in any case, calling people "illegals," "defectives," "undesirables," or "Untermenschen" is dehumanizing and paves the way for murder.
(I think that's why the anti-immigrant movement uses those terms; many of them want murder, many of them want genocide. Certainly all too many of them are members of neo-Nazi organizations or have close ties with such.)
2. Anti-immigrant laws are also racist.
3. Therefore anti-immigrant slurs are racial slurs.
4. And, in any case, calling people "illegals," "defectives," "undesirables," or "Untermenschen" is dehumanizing and paves the way for murder.
(I think that's why the anti-immigrant movement uses those terms; many of them want murder, many of them want genocide. Certainly all too many of them are members of neo-Nazi organizations or have close ties with such.)
