We live in an interconnected world. As an American, I’d like to know some ways that I could purchase goods, in solidarity with our brothers and sisters in Canada and Mexico, and still avoid the tariffs.

  • FundMECFSResearch@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    2 days ago

    Is “illegals” supposed to be “people without permits”?

    I’m a bit suprised to see that phrasing used on lemmy, it’s incredibly dehumanising.

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      2 days ago

      Actually the preferred term is illegal aliens. I omit the latter because calling a human being an alien is the actual dehumanising part. Spare me the insipid fuckin moralisation.

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        2 days ago

        I think “illegals” is just as dehumanising as “illegal aliens”. And what the government uses is kind of irrelevant to that, governments have a long history of labelling marginalised groups with dehumanising terms.

        I think “undocumented migrants” or “unofficial migrants” or “people without residency” etc would be better.