[Vision2020] immigration: comment to RVcowboy

[Ed]

Whoa; semantics, metaphors, and accusations run deep in Melyinda's reply. No pseudonyms and, actually, not bad looking, so I've been told. ...I like it!

--Ed
  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Melynda Huskey 
  To: Moscow Vision 2020 
  Sent: Thursday, April 27, 2006 8:50 PM
  Subject: Re: [Vision2020] immigration: comment to RVcowboy


  Ed wrote:
  >
  >     "Undocumented immigrants"? WHAT? “Illegal Aliens” is more like it.
  >     Who comes up with the stupid inaccurate euphemistic PC
  >     catchphrases? That’s about as bad as renaming homosexuals,
  >     “gays”…is that to fool us into believing that they are happy,
  >     lively, spirited? Back to the issue at hand. As rational
  >     intellects (self-proclaimed in some instances), what do we not
  >     understand about the word “illegal”? Illegal means: prohibited by
  >     law, not a sick bird.
  >
  Maybe it's the English professor in me, but I have to ask, what makes 
  "undocumented immigrants" a catchphrase, but not "illegal aliens"? Is it 
  simply that one embodies a rhetorical position you agree with, and the 
  other doesn't?

  About gay people . . . I don't think anyone's trying to fool you, Ed. 
  Sometimes a word can have more than one meaning. You can be gay, and so 
  can I, without any inconsistency at all. Either one of us could even be 
  both--well, at least I could.

  As rational intellects, I think it's best for us to post under our own 
  names, rather than pseudonyms. Don't worry about being an ugly duckling, 
  Ed. Just speak right up, like the lively, spirited, happy fellow you are.

  Melynda Huskey

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