The UC Berkeley student government has banned the term “illegal immigrant” from its discourse, deeming the phrase racist, offensive, unfair and derogatory.
In an unanimous vote, student senators passed a resolution that stated the word “illegal” is “racially charged,” “dehumanizes” people, and contributes to “punitive and discriminatory actions aimed primarily at immigrants and communities of color.”
The “resolution in support of drop the I-word campaign” was approved 18 to 0 with one abstention on Oct. 30, according to a copy of the meeting’s minutes obtained by The College Fix.
Its approval marks at least the second time this semester that a public university’s student government has voted to eradicate the phrase. UCLA passed a nearly identical measure in late August.
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The lone abstention came from student Sen. Solomon Nwoche.
Nwoche said while he sympathized with the situation, he thinks the resolution does not accomplish anything substantial. He added he was disappointed in how a student who spoke against the resolution at an earlier meeting was treated by student senators, who laughed or had their backs turned when the lone protestor addressed the dais.
The good little drones are learning well.
One ironic twist: when I contacted a member of the student senate and asked if maybe “immigrants of illegality” would be okay as a replacement phrase, much like “communities of color” seems to have seemlessly replaced “colored communities” in the eyes of our moral superiors, he seemed a bit confused before ultimately hanging up on me. And in that pause I found a glimmer of hope.
What can I say? I’m an optimist. Sue me.
(h/t Drudge)
– A rose by any other name, or a million roses for that matter, would never cover the stentch of radical poop these scum bags are wading in up to their eye balls.
– Definately a “please don’t make waves” situation over there. When we retake the Republic one of the first steps will be to burn that viper pit to the ground.
“. . . [F]rom its discourse” seems to imply the measure extends to a self-imposed ignorance in the discourse of the “student government”, and possibly, therefore, no further. Yet the unanimous agreement of the “student government” seems to mean that no-one in the “student government” will challenge the “ban”. Might not anyone outside the narrow (19 member?) “student government” who chooses to speak the fell words ‘illegal immigrant’ merely do so with the same sort of impunity that Joseph Stalin took toward the Pope’s army divisions? Or does the “student government” believe that it can impose its wishes on all the “students” at UC Berkeley?
Cost of attendance at UC Berkeley? A lot.
Even the term “illegal immigrant” is a cop-out, since so many are illegal *aliens*, not wishing to become citizens at all, even when they can.
Or does the “student government” believe that it can impose its wishes on all the “students” at UC Berkeley?
It does. And this has not changed since I was there 20 odd years ago.
Cost of attendance at UC Berkeley? A lot.
And this is still a relative bargain, compared to Stanford, where save for the Hoover Institution, they receive the same indoctrination garbage and pay even more for the privilege. Although at least in Stanford, undergrads are coddled once they make it in and are not faceless cannon fodder for the grad programs, like they are at Berkeley.
Note to parents: Have your son/daughter do the junior college thing the first two years, then transfer to Overrated Big Name University for the last two (or three) years and the sheepskin.
Note to parents: Have your son/daughter do the junior college thing the first two years, then transfer to Overrated Big Name University for the last two (or three) years and the sheepskin.
Or, as in my case, have child get a big scholarship to Directional State University for undergrad and go to Big Name University for graduate school with a research assistantship that pays for everything. Works just as well.
But sadly, Berkeley *is* supposed to be the Directional State University. Or it is sold as such to the unsuspecting. Such is California….
Youngest has already secured a scholarship to Big Name University here.
Where is here now? You left California, yes?
Oklahoma. He’s on track with a STEM program at University of Oklahoma.
Remember when Okies (like my parents) came to California?
Mine too. It’s kind of funny that I now live less than 50 miles from where my mother grew up. They were like the Joads in the 30s. I have pictures and everything.
My parents have their paid off home in San Jose now worth a million plus, so they will stay until they absolutely have to go into assisted living.
And I managed to claw out a home in the Sacramento area ( another one of the “exiles” from the Paradise Coastal and Bayside regions).
But people just starting out? I tell them forget it, get out of this state.
Oddly enough, my sister’s kids are now freshmen at Berkeley. They are cloistered in their sorority life, so they stay away from the Left crap as much as they can, although I always thought Greek crap was not for me either back in the day.
I still find the Berkeley football Team’s 1-8 record more offensive. Please change your mascot to a more appropriate animal.
(from Okie stock here as well and still in CA).
Leigh, too bad about the Baylor thingy. About time the Baptists got a decent football team. (Mizzou, ’82)
California owes its greatness (well, past tense) to Okies and their can-do spirit.
My folks divorced ages ago, but their respective homes are also worth a million or so and they are nothing to get excited about. I remember when we first moved to Santa Barbara when I was a kid (1969-ish?) my dad saying to my mom that there was no way in hell he was paying $30K for a four bedroom split-level on a corner lot. They (the sellers) were out of their damned minds!
Those were the days.
I still find the Berkeley football Team’s 1-8 record more offensive. Please change your mascot to a more appropriate animal.
That hasn’t changed much either. On the other hand, the UCLA “Bruins”, once powerhouses of the then Pac-10, have seen much better days.
I say we call them what they really are: refugees from a corrupt oligarchy
I say we call them what they really are: refugees from a corrupt oligarchy
Unfortunately they are turning this state into the same. They vote for the New Commiecrat Oligarchy.
Then again, it isn’t so much as the Left grew here (although that happened too), so much as it is the Right went away. The irony of Cold War victory meant the decline of aerospace, computer hardware, and defense workers and military personnel.
Meanwhile, Hollywood became Commiewood, and San Francisco became fruity, another irony of history, as San Francisco was were the dishonorably discharged gays of WW2, Korea, and Vietnam were dumped off.
Yes, it is funny, if the South of the boarder refugees actually had a good understanding of why it is that they were never able to get ahead in their homeland and (when eligible) voted more on the conservative side, the left would be down at the boarder putting up the fence themselves crying for increased taxes to build an impenetrable fence along the boarder.
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“Unlawful invader”?
How about “enemy combatant?”
Illegal alien should be the preferred terminology, I agree.
“Unlawful combatant” would be better than “enemy combatant” because enemy combatants may be entitled to rights under the Geneva Conventions. I haven’t noticed these guys wearing uniforms as a group (though I guess gang colors might qualify in individual cases).