Footnotes to Plato from the foothills of the Superstition Mountains

‘Asylum Seekers’

Is a home invader an asylum seeker? Only in very rare cases.  So why are people who immigrate illegally called asylum seekers? A few are but most are not. What we have here, once again, is the characteristic 'progressive' abuse of language. You should have learned by now that no word or phrase is safe around a leftist. Conservatives are not against asylum; they are against the abuse of asylum.

At the same time that so-called progressives abuse 'asylum,' they also abuse 'xenophobic' when they apply this term to those of us who stand for the rule of law. You are one dumb conservative if you acquiesce in the Left's abuse of language. 

If you are a conservative, don't talk like a 'liberal.'

He who controls the terms of the debate controls the debate.


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2 responses to “‘Asylum Seekers’”

  1. john doran Avatar
    john doran

    By simple dint of legal definition, one can only seek ‘asylum’ in a country into which one has entered legally.
    just one more way that the Left has taken the linguistic high ground.
    words matter.

  2. BV Avatar
    BV

    Just one more way the Left has abused language in order to skew the debate in their favor.

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