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Originally Posted by hrandani
And for all the throwing around of the word illegal - do you have any idea how many things you do on a daily basis that are illegal? Come on now. Nobody points their finger at you and says jesus h christ malcolm your tail light is out, you're a goddamn illegal. Holy Mother of God, you just went 5 over the speed limit and changed lanes during passage through an intersection, you're a goddamn illegal.
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Yep, that's what the Slate article I quoted from was all about... how "illegal" gets thrown around like some kind of measure of moral character, when in fact, MOST Americans are "illegal" about SOMETHING, every flipping day. We choose to ignore that fact and focus on CERTAIN illegal people, most likely because we don't like 'em talkin' a different language around us, must be talkin' 'bout us, goddamit... and they LOOK illegal, can't you just see it??
I was talking with a Mexican friend of mine (she's an associate professor at a large American research university) the other day, and she told me that when she went to a yoga class last week, she was parking her car and nearly got side-swiped by some woman gunning through the parking lot. My friend parked her car, got out, and the woman had parked her car directly behind my friend, rolled down the window, and said, "I should call the cops on you, you look like an illegal."
My friend said, "Excuse me, what does an "illegal" look like?" The woman replies, "You." My friend called her a racist bitch and walked off to the yoga studio, lol. The woman circled the yoga studio four times, waiting for my friend to emerge (she was watching from the window), but she never did. The whole event shook her up for several days.
WOW. And this was in Texas, btw. Now, you tell ME who the bigger asshole is, eh?
