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The "I" Word is Now Illegal!




So now, we have a word that is illegal and that word is"Illegal". Of course, it is only illegal if you use it in conjunction with immigrant or refer to someone as an illegal. This great idea has been overwhelmingly accepted at that great US of A brain trust known as Berkeley University. 

November 11, 2013 by Ben Bullard  

The student government at the University of California at Berkeley student government has banned the term illegal immigrant, citing its implicit racism and negative cultural  associations.

Considered one of the Nations top public universities, a place of free intellectual discourse where boundless freedom exists for ideas to flourish or die on their own merits, Berkeleys student government nonetheless will not officially countenance use of the I-word in academic writing or in communications between faculty, students and staff.

The university is the second California school to ban illegal immigrant this year; the University of California at Los Angeles student government passed a similar resolution over the summer.

Berkeleys student government voted 18-0 to ban the term, with one student senator abstaining because he felt the resolution was toothless and unenforceable, and that supporters of the measure on campus had not afforded its opponents the respect they themselves were demanding.

According to The College Fix, which obtained minutes of the SGA meeting, the resolution stated the word illegal is racially charged, dehumanizes people, and contributes to punitive and discriminatory actions aimed primarily at immigrants and communities of color. The I word is legally inaccurate since being out of status is a civil rather than criminal infraction, the resolution also states.






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