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Heard JDs speech, I still hate word “alien”. Takes me back when I would translate legal forms to my parents and I had to mark legal “alien” which just made me feel more of a outcast than I already was. Ik it’s a legal term but idc I hate it
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Anonymous 4d

He uses that term for a reason!

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Anonymous 4d

He can’t even convey factually correct information about ongoing investigations, no shot he’d ever be politically correct. I also don’t believe “alien” is even the legally correct terminology anymore, but I could be wrong there.

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Anonymous 4d

The dehumanization is intentional

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Anonymous 4d

They never use the term when talking about any other immigrant. Just the ones coming from the southern border

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Anonymous 4d

“there are ALIENS STEALING JOBS” and then they heel turn to say they love chinese immigrants (as a Chinese immigrant, they fucking disgust me. but I know that to be fetishized/idolized is better than to be written off entirely)

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Anonymous 4d

I don’t like it either and hate when republicans use it

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Anonymous 4d

they still use alien on some government websites (or at least they sat “non-immigrant alien” on the H-1B site) 🫩

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Anonymous replying to -> #1 4d

(I do not condone)

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Anonymous replying to -> #2 4d

Yeah I haven’t seen the word on any of my brothers paperwork or forms in general for his permanent residence

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Anonymous replying to -> #3 4d

I know during the 2010s it was a term I saw a lot on our legal documents for citizenship but I rly don’t see it anymore so I don’t see why he uses it to often in that damn speech😭

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Anonymous replying to -> #4 4d

Same thing with Hispanic women, the fetishization of us is crazyyyyy

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Anonymous replying to -> womenfortrump 4d

Hm, never heard a Trump support say that☠️

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Anonymous replying to -> OP 4d

We aren’t all the same! Lots of us hold many different values

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Anonymous replying to -> OP 3d

Yeah, it was a used to refer to immigrants long before it became popular for extraterrestrial beings. But the meaning has since changed.

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