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Old 03-06-2017, 02:58 PM
 
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Apologies

'The Root' may not have been the best reference for this:

Ben Carson just referred to slaves as 'immigrants'

 
Old 03-06-2017, 02:58 PM
 
Location: Central Mexico and Central Florida
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Just when you thought no one in this administration could say anything even more stupid than their boss.
 
Old 03-06-2017, 02:59 PM
 
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im·mi·grant
noun
a person who comes to live permanently in a foreign country.

The definitions doesn't say anything about voluntary or involuntary.

So human trafficking victims are also immigrants.

Cool...I might go nab some people and help them immigrate.
Thanks for the education
 
Old 03-06-2017, 03:00 PM
 
Location: Berwick, Penna.
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On a number of posts I've written here, I've made reference to how the people brought here in slave ships, or their descendants, learned the facts and fine points of free enterprise, and prospered from it, but only once they were free and able to do so, and I always take pains to emphasize that distinction.

If the precise wording of Dr. Carson's speech is exactly as published, then he is guilty of a naïve gaffe' and little more. But it needs to be emphasized that whenever a conservative, or even an independent speaks in the presence of Left-leaning trolls, (s)he is figuratively walking bare-@ss through a snake pit.

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Old 03-06-2017, 03:00 PM
 
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Who cares. Emotional yapping is not part of the natural sciences. Dr. Ben Carson made medical history and in terms of applied sciences in medicine and the surgical field he'd run mental laps around both of us.

Go out and make history yourself before you try in envy to steal the thunder from an overachiever who is also ethnically Black-American. I don't care for Dr. Carson's religious affiliation but you don't see me trying to denegrate him because of that.
Excellent post. He could probably run mental laps around the the three of us and someone's going to attack him on this, amazing.
 
Old 03-06-2017, 03:01 PM
 
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I am going to ask again ... what term SHOULD be used then if 'immigrant' is not to your liking?


If you want to disparage Carson, at least say what he should have said.
 
Old 03-06-2017, 03:01 PM
 
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Lol!!! Here come the mental gymnastics good fun!
Yeah, those stupid people who use dictionaries and understand the meaning of words!!! What a maroon!!! LOL
 
Old 03-06-2017, 03:02 PM
 
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I am going to ask again ... what term SHOULD be used then if 'immigrant' is not to your liking?


If you want to disparage Carson, at least say what he should have said.

You are clearly a world-class neurosurgeon. TY
 
Old 03-06-2017, 03:04 PM
 
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You are clearly a world-class neurosurgeon. TY

Huh?


I just asked what term should Carson have used. People are mocking his use of the word 'immigrant' it seems but no one has said what he should have used.
 
Old 03-06-2017, 03:05 PM
 
Location: Santa Monica
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So human trafficking victims are also immigrants.

Cool...I might go nab some people and help them immigrate.
Thanks for the education
Syrian refugees relocated in the West are also human trafficking victims.

They are taken out of hell and go to a better place...sure. A much better place.

But they could go to stable countries where their religion/culture/customs mesh with the locals.

But the U.S. State Department wouldn't receive its kickbacks if that were the case.
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