1/I found some interesting survey data about American racial stereotypes in "The Politics of Belonging", by Jane Junn and Natalie Masuoka. https://www.amazon.com/Politics-Belonging-Opinion-Immigration-American/dp/022605716X …
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9/In fact, there were always much more legal than illegal immigration from Mexico, and kids of undocumented immigrants are U.S. citizens. The "illegal" label is not really about the law. It's about race. It's a way to say Latinos aren't legitimate Americans.
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10/In fact, this is one of the book's major points. (end)
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I thought it was a backronym, created after the 1924 law.
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In other words, I thought that after the passage of an anti-Italian immigration law, people started using "wop" as a backronym to imply that Italians came illegally.
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It's possible. I guess we'd have to look into it.
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I was told by someone who knows things that it actually comes from the Italian word "guappo", meaning a swaggerer, pimp, or ruffian
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Originally yeah
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Ah, so what you're saying is that it started out that way but over time it came to mean "without papers?"
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That was my impression.
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Here’s another book for you: Unspoken Politics by Efrén Pérez.https://www.amazon.com/Unspoken-Politics-Attitudes-Political-Psychology/dp/110759121X …
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"wop" comes from the Italian guappo (a dandy), I believe. Etymologies from acronyms are almost never true
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"I don't
ever speak 
in dog whistles


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-Tucker Carlson...oh yea, and everyone else who's ever spoken in dog whistles
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At politicon he was asked directly and he said it's not a dog whistle
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AFAIK that etymology for wop is wrong. It's something to do with dialects for the word guapo.
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I'm no fan of Carlson but this seems like etymological fallacy. The only conclusive way you can ever know what he means by the term is by asking him. The term's history of popular usage isn't sufficient imo.
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