pacino wrote:it means, negatively, the child of a brown person who is undocumented. how that isnt racist is beyond me and frankly you are subverting hte issue at this point.

pacino wrote:

Werthless wrote:

Barry Jive wrote:i'll back up Werthless here. pacino is a racist

No no. Just a reverse racist, which is completely different.

there is no such thing as a reverse racist, and that wouldn't even be me if there were one. sorry, i dont hate myself. people are simply racist. anyway,

Houshphandzadeh wrote:you'd think the memo was instructing them to use the phrase more often

Houshphandzadeh wrote:not really. my mom is very proud of her disdain for illegal aliens and Russians are first, second, and third on her list

Soren wrote:interesting analogy here

The insurance companies are creating their own tombs. Much like the Jews boarding the trains to concentration camps, private insurers are used by the feds to put the system in place because the federal government has no way to set up the exchange.

Werthless wrote:

pacino wrote:it means, negatively, the child of a brown person who is undocumented. how that isnt racist is beyond me and frankly you are subverting hte issue at this point.

it means any immigrant who leverages the auto-citizenship of a baby born on US soil as a path to citizenship. As I said, it's insensitive, and originally referred to Vietnamese. Just because many illegal aliens are Hispanic doesn't make the phrase racist against Hispanics all of a sudden. If I say that Lacrosse players are jerks, is that racist against whites because most are white? Or if I said that basketball players are assholes, is that racist against blacks? No, it's an insensitive comment directed at lacrosse players, or at basketball players. But it's not racism, and I think it's abhorrent to toss around such accusations of racism with complete seriousness.

dajafi wrote:The "reverse racist" is the position where the partner's heels are on your shoulders, right?

Two years ago, Dr. Melgen, despite an apparent lack of experience in border security issues, bought an ownership interest in a company that had a long-dormant contract with the Dominican Republic to provide port security. Mr. Menendez, who is chairman of the Senate subcommittee that holds sway over the Dominican Republic, subsequently urged officials in the State and Commerce Departments to intervene so the contract would be enforced, at an estimated value of $500 million.