Good News: Word Police Look to Erase 'Illegal Immigrant'

from theblogprof by The blogprof


Good News: Word Police Look to Erase 'Illegal Immigrant': "A Fox News report on PC gone awry (pay attention at particularly the 3:54 mark because it will become more important later)

The sentinels in the left wing media immediately sprung into action. From TPMMuckraker via memeorandum: Megyn Kelly: Calling Aliens ‘Undocumented’ Like Calling Rape ‘Non-Consensual Sex’ (VIDEO)

'You could say that a burglar is an unauthorized visitor. You know, you could say that a rapist is a non-consensual sex partner which, obviously, would be considered offensive to the victims of those crimes,' Kelly said. 'So how far could you take this?'

'What if there was a push by the criminal defense... bar to re-brand the use of the word rapist to nonconsensual sex partner?' Kelly asks her guest. Jehmu Greene, the former president of the Women's Media Center, said that was like comparing 'apples and oranges.'

Kelly also expressed frustration over the politically correct language dominating American culture.

'You know, we did a segment earlier in the year on how little people find the term midget offensive, and so you can't say that anymore,' Kelly lamented. 'There's so many words that are suddenly becoming hurtful, and part of the group thinks it's hurtful, and the other group doesn't, and you're left as a journalist saying, I don't know what to do.'

Megyn Kelly is absolutely correct! These left-wing media types are out to get her amplifying comments that are perfectly OK. It's not as if she was excusing an actual rape as not being rape rape you know:

UPDATE: The TPM video is a bit shorter and more focused on the Kelly comments:

"