(05-31-2023, 02:12 PM)Chiefsmom Wrote: Can you even imagine if a news organization used the term "wetbacks" today?
LMAO
The whole US would lose its mind.
Not going to lie, would be fun to watch.
Mu ma's name is "Juanita", so I've heard the term "wetback" nearly all my life. It just rolls off me ;like... erm... water off a duck's back. In the last couple of decades, while progressives have been trying to legitimize invasions, lines and definitions have been blurred such that "wetback" has been applied to ANY Hispanic, not just the illegal aliens. The Progressives have intentionally blurred that line, and the lower-brow Conservatives have dutifully followed the lead of their natural enemies - never a good idea to let your opponent lead you around by the nose like that!
Back in the day, "wetback" applied ONLY to illegal aliens, due to the connotation s of their backs getting soaked crossing the Rio Grande. It was definitely a pejorative, but only against illegal border-crashers. Crossing legally carries no danger of getting the damp-ass. With the Progressive attempt to legitimize human-wave border invasions, they've redefined the term to include ALL Hispanics, rather than just illegal aliens, and that is how the term "wetback" has come to be frowned upon in polite company. It's an attempt to create bigots where no bigots exist to give fodder to Progressives in their never ending quest to brand everyone that is not them as a "racist", and lump all Hispanics together under a single pejorative umbrella.
So I continue to use the term "wetnack" as it was originally intended and defined, to mean illegal invaders, rather than legitimate border-crossing Hispanics. I give no shits at all who looks at me sideways for it.
I do not allow my opposition to define MY language.
No, my ma is not Hispanic. She's a short little five-foot-nothing red-headed mostly Welsh woman. Somewhere in the dim mists of time, the name "Juanita" became a popular one here in the Appalachians inexplicably and for reasons unknown, and it just stuck. Even Grace can't quite wrap her head around the concept of a bitty little old Welsh woman having a blatantly Hispanic name. Ma has a helluva temper, for all her diminutiveness. Even I, at 6' 2" tall, quake in fear when her tiny red-headed ass gets irritated. Ske's hell on wheels, and doesn't mind windmilling her way through a problem... and that's scary! Doesn't matter how big you are, she'll cut you off right at the knees until you're down to a manageable size!
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