If you cheat on your taxes or drive 75 in a 55 zone does that make you an "illegal" too?
Trump has 91 felony counts against him. Is he an "illegal"?
If you cheat on your taxes or drive 75 in a 55 zone does that make you an "illegal" too?
Just pointing out that tax evasion is a more serious crime than being out of status when it comes to immigration. As is insurrection and sexual assault.temporal1 wrote: ↑Mon Mar 11, 2024 12:53 am Legal U.S. citizens commit crimes, when caught, they expect penalties.
If/when legal U.S. citizens cross national borders illegally, they expect penalties.
If/when legal U.S. citizens cross national borders illegally, then commit heinous additional crimes, they expect penalties.
They do not expect to be treated equally or better than legal citizens of other countries.
Not sure why historical concepts that have existed for all time are now so shocking.
And brutally murdering a person isn't dehumanizing? And not even getting the young lady's name correct, isn't dehumanizing?It is with the labeling of people themselves as "illegal" which some see as dehumanizing.
There is no surprise that Biden did offer regrets for using the wrong term for this brutal murderer. A lawless person often defends the lawless.Jose Antonio Ibarra, suspected vicious murderer and known criminal with lengthy record, does not deserve apology from POTUS.
Me, I do. It is dehumanizing. Historically when one group starts to dehumanize another group with language, terrible things follow. It's like opening the door and inviting in the devil. Language is important, it reveals and bears along the spirit of the age, the principalities and powers and rulers of the power of the air the New Testament warns against.
After jumping bail for endangering a child and being arrested multiple times, someone who murders a young woman jogging definitely fits the definition of “illegal”.
Yes, humans can dehumanize others. As followers of Jesus, we should work not to do that. Adding illegal as a qualifier before the word immigrant does not seem to really dehumanize, but define since we have many legal immigrants. If one enters the USA without permission, that is illegal. I do not see that as dehumanizing, but defining.
you’re going overboard, even if for the best reasons.barnhart wrote: ↑Mon Mar 11, 2024 7:26 am Me, I do. It is dehumanizing. Historically when one group starts to dehumanize another group with language, terrible things follow. It's like opening the door and inviting in the devil. Language is important, it reveals and bears along the spirit of the age, the principalities and powers and rulers of the power of the air the New Testament warns against.
The Hutus called Tutsi cockroaches, Jews were called vermin and an infestation, the Russians are invading their neighbors to fight Nazis, the enemies of the US have been red men without souls, godless commies, huns, japs and gooks, African Americans have continually been called monkeys. All this precedes and facilitates tragedy. In the build up to the first Iraq invasion, my pastor pointed out Saddam Hussein was being called a "mad man" who must be "put down like a rabid dog" and he warned against dehumanization. I wish there were more pastors like him today, the sheep are wandering into dangerous territory.