So, how are freepfucks defending Rep. Don Young? "Wetback is not a slur"

[cali]

To: BlueStateRightist

“Wetbacks” is not a slur. It’s just a descriptive term for those who came here illegally by swimming the Rio Grande. Most “Mexican-Americans” (a real slur against those who consider themselves unhypenated Americans) probably view the term as a compliment to the dedication of those who had the courage to “take the plunge.”

14 posted on Friday, March 29, 2013 12:57:14 PM by Tau Food (Never give a sword to a man who can't dance.)

To: Tau Food

““Wetbacks” is not a slur. It’s just a descriptive term for those who came here illegally by swimming the Rio Grande. “

On the Wikipedia page, it is only a slur in English, not Spanish. I am NOT kidding.

16 posted on Friday, March 29, 2013 1:01:2

To: BlueStateRightist

The government’s crackdown on illegal immigration during Pres. Eisenhower’s administration was called “Operation Wetback.”

[olddots]

1. If anybody knows about racial slurs its the sub human shit for brains freepatoids

[backscatter712]

9. Bigotry is a primary instinct for these lamprey-mouthed reptilian bottom-feeders. n/t

[denverbill]

2. Soon you'll see a thread wondering why more minorities don't vote Republican.

It's all very puzzling to freepers.

[MrScorpio]

3. They really don't want to start a name game

It won't be pretty

[Cleita]

4. Wetback was a slur as far back as I can remember.

Anybody who wanted to insult a Mexican American or Chicano, would call them a wetback to get their hackles raised. Don Young is a generational racist any way you look at it.

[displacedtexan]

5. As infuriating as these freeper comments are...

I hope they keep talking and showing who they really are! Surely one or more of their friends and relatives will figure out how truly heartless they are and start exploring relationships with more caring people.

[cali]

6. Not that anyone was wondering but "freepfuck" is definitely intended as a slur.

If only I could come up with something harsher for those disgusting piles of steaming dog shit over there.

[Le Taz Hot]

7. I've lived in California for 57-1/2 years now

and the ONLY time I've ever heard that term is from a white person and it's been a LONG time since I've heard it at all. Mexican-American view it as a compliment? Uh, no, no they don't.

[Baitball Blogger]

8. It's a slur. Has always been a slur.

[aint_no_life_nowhere]

11. I suppose even the "N" word could be rationalized as a modified version of the Spanish

word for "black" by these nuts. But Young was talking about the present day and how machines have replaced field laborers now, not about how words were more acceptable in the past nor was he giving a lecture on the etymology of racial slurs. It was the first word that came to his mind NOW, in the present.

[LadyHawkAZ]

12. Of course during Eisenhower's administration

they had a different word for "colored" people too. I'm sure it wasn't racist at all.