We Are All Human: 10 Labels We Need To Stop Using To Describe People

[Ptarmigan]

We Are All Human: 10 Labels We Need To Stop Using To Describe People
http://elitedaily.com/life/culture/we-are-human-words-we-need-to-stop-using-to-describe-people/787711/

Humans have an innate desire to place labels on everything. Labels give people a sense of order, and a way of distinguishing things.

Yet, people aren’t things; they are human beings first and foremost. Using labels to describe people ignores deeper reflections of their personhood.

A person’s race, sexuality, socioeconomic status or geographic origins does not define all that he or she is or will be.

1. Illegal Immigrant
No human being is illegal. Calling someone an illegal immigrant ignores the struggles that led him or her to risk life and limb to cross a border without documentation.

Acquiring a visa is expensive and difficult, and the United States has always been advertised as the land of opportunity. What would you do if you were placed in the same position?

Not to mention, Americans are the descendants of immigrants.

They tresspassed illegally. No? John Haltiwanger is a leftist and writes for Elite Daily, which targest Millennials.

[Mr Mannn]

Looked at the article. It is 100% politically correct.

The only new word we can't use is, "Socialist." The author assumes people who use that word in a derogatory sense don't know the meaning of the word-hence you are ignorant if you use that word. Never mind that liberals define "Socialist" for us every day...only the PC crowd is intelligent enough to use that word.

Interestingly, "Tea Bagger" is not on the list, as are all the insults liberals so frequently sling.

Just another attempt is get people to willingly set aside Free Speech in order to not offend.

[Ptarmigan]

Looked at the article. It is 100% politically correct.

The only new word we can't use is, "Socialist." The author assumes people who use that word in a derogatory sense don't know the meaning of the word-hence you are ignorant if you use that word. Never mind that liberals define "Socialist" for us every day...only the PC crowd is intelligent enough to use that word.

Interestingly, "Tea Bagger" is not on the list, as are all the insults liberals so frequently sling.

Just another attempt is get people to willingly set aside Free Speech in order to not offend.

Written by a libtard moron.

[docstew]

Looked at the article. It is 100% politically correct.

The only new word we can't use is, "Socialist." The author assumes people who use that word in a derogatory sense don't know the meaning of the word-hence you are ignorant if you use that word. Never mind that liberals define "Socialist" for us every day...only the PC crowd is intelligent enough to use that word.

Interestingly, "Tea Bagger" is not on the list, as are all the insults liberals so frequently sling.

Just another attempt is get people to willingly set aside Free Speech in order to not offend.

I've been thinking lately (I know, dangerous, I might require gov't monitoring and an IRS audit). There was another society where words were restricted to what is "politically correct": the Soviet Union. The main difference between theirs and ours is enforcement mechanism; be politically incorrect in the USSR and the KGB picks you up, conducts a show trial for your crimes against the revolution and sends you to the gulag.
Here in America, we simply show the public what someone says and then they are forced to resign from their job, defend themselves, offer apologies (that won't be accepted), discuss on national media how evil a person they are to have those thoughts in their heart, and otherwise destroy them socially. No one goes to jail, they just get ostracized. One caveat to that: the politically-incorrect perpetrator MUST be right-leaning, or Republican, or something other than liberal. Liberals get a pass because they "feel so horrible" for "victims of the right" or because they are a "victim of the right", aka a minority.

In order to have FREE speech, you must defend OFFENSIVE speech.

[freedumb2003b]

1. Illegal Immigrant

No human being is illegal. Calling someone an illegal immigrant ignores the struggles that led him or her to risk life and limb to cross a border without documentation.

Straw man.  Illegal Immigrant is the ONLY legal term for an immigrant (someone from another country) who is here in the USA illegally.  What led them here and how hard it was is irrelevant.

Acquiring a visa is expensive and difficult, and the United States has always been advertised as the land of opportunity. What would you do if you were placed in the same position?

Boo freaking hoo.   That is our immigration law.  It is the same for almost every country in the world.

Let the author personally pay for the expenses of their beloved illegals.

Not to mention, Americans are the descendants of immigrants.

For the most part, legal ones.  But as usual, the touchy-feelie crowd wasn't to throw open the borders.

[freedumb2003b]

10. Republican/Democratic
The United States is exceptionally polarized when it comes to politics at the moment. When we vote, most of us identify as Republican or Democratic.

Yet, this does not describe everything about us or our values, despite the fact that people seem determined to define people by their political affiliations.

You can be traditionally Democratic on one issue while completely Republican on another. Some people are fiscally conservative, yet socially liberal, for example. Let’s stop despising one another for our political convictions.

These are party designations and are self-attached by the individual.  We KNOW "Republican" does not mean Conservative but this idiot uses the terms as if they are philosophies instead of affinities.

How can people like the author make it through life so painfully ignorant AND stupid?

[obumazombie]

The reluctance of Americans to be unsympathetic to the poor tired huddled masses is diminishing rapidly with the stark realities of jihadists and ebola carriers. Not to mention cartel mules, potential anchor babies, and other generally undesirables.