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bowens43

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8. if you don't see the difference between an hispanic person using the word

Reply to ag_dude (Reply #3)

Fri Mar 29, 2013, 06:58 AM

Mar 2013

and some old redneck fuck who hires them and uses them as farm machinery using it then you just don't get.

"Wetback was the standard of hard work at that time" ???????

bullshit

"I'm not sure when its widespread use stopped" when we grew up......

it stopped because it is DEROGATORY. It stopped for the same reason that ni**er is not acceptable.

Unbelievable.....

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Rep. Young ‘Meant No Disrespect’ By ‘Wetbacks’ Remark [View all] deminks Mar 2013 OP

So, no apology necessary, I guess. Scuba Mar 2013 #1

He meant it just as he said it... pipoman Mar 2013 #2

There are places it wasn't a slur ag_dude Mar 2013 #3

It has ALWAYS been a slur CBGLuthier Mar 2013 #4

Where you live. ag_dude Mar 2013 #5

what region is that? datasuspect Mar 2013 #16

A region where there are lots of bigots? joeybee12 Mar 2013 #19

if you don't see the difference between an hispanic person using the word bowens43 Mar 2013 #8

Yeah, because the hispanics didn't hire them, right? It was only old redneck fucks. ag_dude Mar 2013 #10

It is a slur, has always been a slur rurallib Mar 2013 #11

sure has. I am a third generation anglo Texan and it was slur in the 50s CTyankee Mar 2013 #13

Yeah, and people would have argued pipoman Mar 2013 #9

bullshit datasuspect Mar 2013 #15

ROFLMAO!!! ' I meant no disrespect' bowens43 Mar 2013 #6

Don Young, dumber than a fencepost . . . . hatrack Mar 2013 #7

The point is Shankapotomus Mar 2013 #12

"a term that was commonly used" by racists and bigots. TeamPooka Mar 2013 #14

He should be highly pressured to resign his office immediately. David Zephyr Mar 2013 #17

I'm from California, and have lived in the Central Valley and near there all my life senseandsensibility Mar 2013 #18

Macaca ver 2013 lpbk2713 Mar 2013 #20

Except that he wasn't talking about his past state of mind aint_no_life_nowhere Mar 2013 #21

Later in the day at a "Choose Respect" rally in Juneau calling attention to domestic violence, Blue_In_AK Mar 2013 #22