• @[email protected]OPM
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    31 year ago

    https://lemmy.ca/comment/7478374

    I’ve done the mistake of opening his profile. This guy calls “aliens” the immigrants 😅

    He is probably just having hard time coping with stats that measure something more useful than economy or weapons and realizing that maybe USA are not an example

    • @[email protected]
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      51 year ago

      Sorry, non-native here, but isn’t “alien” a synonym to “non-citizen” in American English?

      • @candybrie
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        71 year ago

        Technically. But it’s definitely not polite. It’s a bit like “retard” in that it used to be the terminology but it was used derogatorily so often that that connotation took over.

      • @[email protected]OPM
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        21 year ago

        I’m also non native but I always hear it only from right wing people so I assumed that is at least a bit derogative