Liberals abuse the English language to defend their unpopular policies

Leon Wolf:

One of the most effective ways liberals win debates in the public square is to declare that certain words and phrases that resonate with the general public are illegal or off limits in polite discussion. They are attempting this with no small measure of success in the abortion arena by essentially wiping with word “abortion” out of the public debate in favor of “reproductive health services,” or, if they are feeling especially Orwellian, “women’s health.”

They are also attempting to perform the same trick in the immigration debate. They have already largely succeeded in convincing the media to completely remove the terms “illegal immigration” or “illegal immigrant” from the public discourse even though those terms are completely accurate indicators of what is occurring and are not in any way imbued with racial overtones, to any objective person.

Instead, the ridiculously empty phrase “undocumented American” has been substituted in its place, as though the people under discussion are American citizens who have lost their social security cards or who were never issued birth certificates or something – as opposed to, you know, immigrants who entered this country illegally.

Liberals are now attempting to perform the same Jedi mind trick with the term “anchor baby.” The tactic they are using, in this instance, is to assert (without a shred of proof or logic, and contrary to ordinary English understanding of the words themselves) that the term is racially offensive and therefore must be stricken from the discussion. Behold Democrat congresswoman Rep. Linda Sanchez (D-CA) 16%,writing in the Washington Post....
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I refuse to go along with liberal language abuse.  I still call illegals "illegals."  Anchor babies refers to a process used to jump the legal immigration queue and refers to no race, but to scheme to avoid the law.  I am not moved by their phony outrage.