[Ads-l] newly "offensive" term

[Peter Reitan]

"Instantly stood out"?


Because it couldn't possibly mean that one person lets in one close relative, who then lets in another close relative, who then lets in an in-law, who then lets in someone three degrees removed from the first person - like a series of links in a chain.




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. . . However, "chain migration" instantly stood out to me as falling into the category of words
from a totalitarian ideology, as would also be obvious to anyone in your typical German 10th grade (or thereabouts) unit on the language of totalitarianism."

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