Is Wetback Truly An Offensive Term?

[Road Runner]

After all, swimming to the US doesn't seem like something that a legal immigrant would do. It sounds something only applied to illegal immigrants. Who in my opinion deserve to be called every name in the book. I guess the context of it could be offensive though. Hence this video.

 

[Zincwarrior]

ARE YOU SERIOUS?

 

[Concerned American]

After all, swimming to the US doesn't seem like something that a legal immigrant would do. It sounds something only applied to illegal immigrants. Who in my opinion deserve to be called every name in the book. I guess the context of it could be offensive though. Hence this video.

Don't know what your ethnicity is April, but look at it this way. If you were a LEGAL AMERICAN of hispanic heritage and someone called you a wetback, would you take offense? When you ask these questions, put some thought into them before posting.

 

[jwoodie]

Offensive to whom? Most of the people using this canard claim that someone else if offended, thereby avoiding having to explain their own phony assertions.

 

[Road Runner]

Don't know what your ethnicity is April, but look at it this way. If you were a LEGAL AMERICAN of hispanic heritage and someone called you a wetback, would you take offense? When you ask these questions, put some thought into them before posting.

I'm not talking about calling legal immigrants anything. I'm talking about calling illegal immigrants this.

 

[OhPleaseJustQuit]

After all, swimming to the US doesn't seem like something that a legal immigrant would do. It sounds something only applied to illegal immigrants. Who in my opinion deserve to be called every name in the book. I guess the context of it could be offensive though. Hence this video.

.

We've just gotten too sissified, when a word can hurt.

Operation Wetback | Meaning, Immigration, Summary, Bracero Program, & Facts | Britannica

Operation Wetback, U.S. immigration law enforcement campaign during the summer of 1954 that resulted in the mass deportation of Mexican nationals. It arose partly in response to anger at the widespread corruption among employers of sharecroppers and growers along the Mexican border and at the...

www.britannica.com

My Japanese in-laws suffered greatly after Pearl Harbor, but the word "Jap" didn't send them into a tizzy. Nor did they pass any sensitivity on to their offspring. At a holiday gathering at the home of my brother and his wife, her very drunk uncle went into a tirade about the "dirty Japs", and my husband, bless him, kept his dignity and shrugged his shoulders, and kept eating his dinner. I was so proud of him that day. He was the embodiment of the old advice, "Your ability to hurt me extends only as far as my ability to be hurt".

I have heard that lots of Mexicans who legally became Americans are just as unhappy about the illegal invaders as am I, and realize that the word "wetback" does not apply to them. Grown ups.


.

 

[Zincwarrior]

Offensive to whom? Most of the people using this canard claim that someone else if offended, thereby avoiding having to explain their own phony assertions.

You should go a restaurant and call someone that. report back to us.

 

[Road Runner]

Oh and for the record if somebody called me a cracker I would be like whatever.

 

[OhPleaseJustQuit]

You should go a restaurant and call someone that. report back to us.

.




Well, that's not likely to happen, as our dignity is important to us.







.

 

[Zincwarrior]

Oh and for the record if somebody called me a cracker I would be like whatever.

Good for you I guess.

 

[debbiedowner]

Oh and for the record if somebody called me a cracker I would be like whatever.

How about peckerwood?

 

[OhPleaseJustQuit]

How about peckerwood?

.





Does mommy know you're playing with her computer, little boy?








.

 

[debbiedowner]

.





Does mommy know you're playing with her computer, little boy?








.

She's been dead since 1987 and had no computer. But thanks for your excellent Catholic values.

 

[Dante]

Is Wetback Truly An Offensive Term?​

Come to East LA and ask people in the street that question

 

[debbiedowner]

Come to East LA and ask people in the street that question

Take pictures of that. Should be interesting.

 

[Dante]

Take pictures of that. Should be interesting.

Video

 

[debbiedowner]

Video

That would even be better. lol It's closer for her to go down to Miami.

 

[OhPleaseJustQuit]

That would even be better. lol It's closer for her to go down to Miami.

.




Road Runner, how does the board know you live near Miami? Have you been doxxed?










.

 

[Road Runner]

How about peckerwood?

Seriously?

Come to East LA and ask people in the street that question

Not to legal American citizens.

.




Road Runner, how does the board know you live near Miami? Have you been doxxed?










.

I don't. I live in Ohio.

 

[OhPleaseJustQuit]

Seriously.



Not to legal American citizens.



I don't. I live in Ohio.

.

Good to know that that poster has stopped stalking people on the board.


.