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Hello and welcome to Wise This Happening with me, your host Chris Hayes.

Let me start off with a little bit of a hobby horse of mine. Something that really bothers me about the way we talk about immigration in this country.

The metaphors we use particularly even metaphors that wind their way into ostensibly mainstream press.

One of them is a flood of immigrants. You ever hear of this term? A flood of immigrants of the border.

Now this is a very common trope. It's almost a cliche and believe me, I'm a journalist and I have a cable news show.

So I use cliches more than I should and we all do and we all traffic in them. It's kind of an occupational hazard.

Of course good, clear writing and communication avoids cliches, but this is a particularly insidious one because a flood is a metaphor of destruction.

It's a metaphor of inhumanity, right? A flood is a wild destructive. It's not sentient. It's not a group of people.

It's not, it has no agency, right? It's this implacable force of nature that comes and wrecks things.

In fact, it's in a literal sense the orr disaster, right? There is the flood in the first essentially written story we have, the epic of Gilgamesh.

There's a great flood and there's a Noah figure who sort of prefigures Noah. There is of course Noah in the Bible.

So the flood is the ultimate or metaphor of destruction of havoc.

So when you call a bunch of people showing up the floor, a flood of immigrants, you are, you're doing really insidious conceptual work.

You're saying these people are destructive. You're saying these people are something that you need to keep out the way that a dam or a dike might.

You're saying that if they let in, they will sort of go everywhere and everywhere they go, they will bring destruction with them, which is what water does when it floods a place.

Whether that's flooding a basement or flooding a city, it finds its level, right? And it works in this kind of incredibly damaging fashion.

Anyone has ever dealt with the aftermath of a flood. I find this like a really gross cliche and I would like everyone to stop using it when talking about human beings.

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