NYC City Council passes bill banning
'dehumanizing' word 'alien' in local laws
Washington Examiner,
by
Andrew Mark Miller
Original Article
Posted By: Imright,
5/28/2020 6:46:57 PM
The New York City City Council has passed a bill banning the term “alien” in local laws, rules, and documents. “New York City just became the first major U.S. city to prohibit the use of the dehumanizing and offensive term 'alien' in local laws, rules, and documents,” New York City Council Speaker Corey Johnson tweeted Thursday. “From now on, the term will be 'noncitizen.'" (Tweet) The bill was passed almost unanimously, lacking the votes of four Republican councilmen and will now head to the desk of Mayor Bill de Blasio, who is expected to sign the bill into law, according to Staten Island Live.“Words matter,”
Reply 1 - Posted by:
marbles 5/28/2020 6:59:05 PM (No. 424744)
"They" can ban whatever "they" want. It won't stop me or anyone else from speaking the truth. How do " they" feel about " wetback".?
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
Right Time 5/28/2020 7:02:34 PM (No. 424749)
Did they ban "stupid" too?
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
Proud Texan 5/28/2020 7:11:16 PM (No. 424756)
"Invader" sounds pretty accurate.
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
DVC 5/28/2020 7:24:55 PM (No. 424774)
Well, an illegal alien by any other name smells just as bad, .....while they steal American jobs, vote illegally and commit those crimes that Americans are just not willing to commit.
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
EQKimball 5/28/2020 7:28:21 PM (No. 424780)
The term "illegal alien" is contained in federal statutes (e.g. The Aliens and Nationality Act of 1952 (8 U.S.C. 1252(c)) and The Immigration Reform and Control Act of 1986 ( 8 U. S. C. §§1324a(a)(1)(A), (a)(2)). It is also a term used by the courts in case law, including by the U.S. Supreme Court (e.g. (e.g. Arizona v. United States (2012) 567 U.S. 387 and De Cansas v. Bica (1975) 424 U.S. 351). It is the unfortunate habit of progressives to try to declare even legal terms to be politically incorrect, imposing their own speech regulations on everyone else. By controlling language, they intimidate the populace to conform to their own code of propriety. Interestingly, even though the Democrats have enjoyed large majorities in Congress as recently as the last administration, they never amended the federal code to reflect a different term.
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
Bur Oak 5/28/2020 7:28:59 PM (No. 424781)
These people are alien to me. You'd think they would have more important matters to attend to. Next year they will be banning noncitizen as being discriminatory. When you elect control freaks, you get to live with their newspeak. I don't think George Orwell would be surprised.
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
TJ54 5/28/2020 7:41:47 PM (No. 424789)
No need to return to Hymietown in the words of Jesse Jackson!
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
Quigley 5/28/2020 7:44:30 PM (No. 424793)
Such leadership! No wonder only a few thousand senior citizens were killed when these leaders seeded nursing homes with the corona virus.
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
bobn.t 5/28/2020 8:33:29 PM (No. 424819)
What about:
Honkey
Whitey
Greaser
Coon
Wetback
Chink
And many more
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That’s fine. Excellent even. Now when the federal government says, "you must turn over illegal aliens In your custody to federal authorities," they won’t be able to pass any legislation prohibiting it.
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
padiva 5/28/2020 9:03:00 PM (No. 424837)
invader
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Reply 12 - Posted by:
Grateful 5/28/2020 9:33:02 PM (No. 424851)
I think the terms 'illegal non-native' or 'illegal foreign national' better describe the lawbreaking alien.
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Reply 13 - Posted by:
hershey 5/28/2020 9:44:39 PM (No. 424858)
What are they going to call the real ones when they land?? 'Peaceful visitors from a far planet'? I prefer aliens...Too bad upstate can't divorce themselves from the idiots downstate..
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Reply 14 - Posted by:
watashiyo 5/28/2020 10:21:30 PM (No. 424881)
Re: #9, Yellow = Asians = coward
Please ban the words:
Yellow
Yellow Submarine
Yellow Ribbon
Yellow Brick Road
Yellow pages
Yellow fever
Yellow Jacket
...and lastly, JAP
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Somehow I think their victims feel "dehumanized" Wilhelm is always defending the wrong crowd.
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Reply 16 - Posted by:
JimBob 5/29/2020 1:44:05 AM (No. 424961)
New Yawk would do better to remove the THUGS from their streets than to play word games.
But, that is hard work, and it might actually make the city a BETTER place to live so........ NO WAY!
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Reply 17 - Posted by:
udanja99 5/29/2020 10:10:19 AM (No. 425250)
I guess the epicenter of the CV19 pandemic has nothing better to do...
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Reply 18 - Posted by:
kono 5/29/2020 10:15:52 AM (No. 425260)
Ok, y'all "Words Matter" geniuses -- what do we call those people who are not citizens AND not having gone to the bother to apply for (and receive) permission to stay? As "immigrants" refers to legal AND illegal immigrants, "non-citizen" refers to folks with green cards and work visas as well as to people who do not have permission to be in this country. The reality hasn't gone away just because you've banned the word for it. Here's some other banned words -- F.U., NYCCC.
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