President Donald Trump this week floated possible deportations for U.S. citizens.During a visit to Florida on Tuesday, a reporter asked Trump how many detention facilities he would need to carry out his mass deportation policy for undocumented immigrants."I'd like to say, you know, a little controve...
I really wish we would stop using the term “deporting” for situations like this. That is not what’s happening here. “Rendition” and “exile” would be far more accurate.
Maybe it’s because I’m German. But deporting someone sounds just as inhumane and cruel as the reality we live in.
Deportation infers that they didn’t belong there to begin with. You can’t deport a naturally born citizen, and we have another word for which is considered much more cruel: exile.
Might be a language barrier thing but the difference is pretty substantial imo, and I am tired of letting these chuds rework the narrative with their particular choice of words.
Maybe. But to me exile is what happens when a King has to live in another plushy castle because he’s no longer welcome in his own country. Deportation is what happened to the Jews and minorities that got sent to Auschwitz. And if you’re calling it mass deportation I don’t think you are trying to hide the cruelty anymore. Cruelty is the point.
As a native english speaker, I fully agree. Exile is something that happens to the rich and powerful, when they fall out of favor. It does not at all connote what’s going on here. Deportation is far more apt.
Shipped to concentration camps
Amen to that. It’s like calling those terrorists from J6 “rioters”.