It's amazing how we allow the media to lead us, like sheep. Even intelligent folks fall prey to their emotional prattle, without one honest, intelligent thought about what they are saying.
So, let's step back and take a look at how the media is reclassifying the people in New Orleans, and Mississippi (but mainly New Orleans). The media has labelled these folks as "refugees," when in truth, they are "victims." There's a difference, and the media knows it, but the term "refuge"' carries a more emotional meaning.
Go back to the previous hurricanes, or any tornado, and the media refers to these displaced people as victims, and rightly so. Not once did they call them "refugees."
A "refugee" is a person fleeing persecution due to religious, political, or war related reasons. None of these people fit that description. They do fit the description of Victim.
This is nothing new for the media, though. For years they've referred to people with bombs attached to themselves as "suicide" bombers. That's just crazy. These folks are homicide bombers. Their intent isn't to just kill themselves, their mission is to take out as many other people as they can -- that's homicide.
So think about what you're being told, and what it really means, before you repeat it.
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