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On the slurrification of "migrant"
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On the slurrification of "migrant"

Why not fight for the word instead of abandoning it?

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Carl Beijer
Feb 04, 2025
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There’s a new slur on the horizon: “migrants.” Or at least that’s what I’m hearing from the familiar genre of busybody liberal whose politics mostly revolve around language policing. And though I have no doubt that we’ll soon be told that “migrant” has been a slur since time immemorial, the fact is that no one had a problem with it as recently as a few …

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