San Francisco’s Board of Supervisors has mandated new and
improved language for referring to criminals and addicts. The new lingo is
sanitized for their protection. (Certainly not ours). The city’s officials
adopted the changes recently, banishing words they feel marginalize criminals
in favor of more politically correct terms.
The
word “offender” is out, as it is offensive. Duh! We’re afraid to offend
offenders? “Addict” has been shown the door as well, because-- I guess-- it
makes one sound like someone who’s addicted to something. From now on a
criminal released from prison will be known as a “formerly incarcerated
person,” or a “returning resident,” according to the San Francisco Chronicle.
Returning resident? That sounds like Aunt Edna coming back from vacation,
not an ex-con coming back from the slammer.
A drug
addict will become “a person with a history of substance use,” while a
convicted felon will henceforth be called a “justice-involved
person.” That makes it sound like he or she is a good guy, probably in law
enforcement, certainly not a dangerous criminal. Similarly, a juvenile
“delinquent” will henceforth be termed a “young person impacted by the juvenile
justice system.” It will then be unclear if he was the perpetrator or the
victim. That is likely the point. To progressives, there’s no difference
between perps and law-abiding citizens, really, just as there’s no objective
difference between men and women.
The local officials claim the
new language will help change people’s views about those who commit crimes. One
can almost hear them thinking: “We certainly don’t want to stigmatize
crime and bad behavior! Wonder why we have so much crime and bad behavior?”
Leftists don’t understand the simple laws and
realities of life. Or they refuse to accept them. They are generally unfamiliar
with Natural Law, don’t approve of the idea of supply and demand, and refuse to
acknowledge that there are only two sexes.
We already call illegal aliens “undocumented
immigrants.” Can’t accuse them of breaking the law, even though that is
precisely what they did—the very first thing they did-- upon entering
the country. If a man thinks he’s a woman, or wishes he were one, we call him a
woman. Crazy isn’t “crazy,” it’s “exceptionally unusual,” “thrilling,” “non-standard,” or “differently-excited
and acted out.”
You inevitably get more of
what you tolerate, subsidize, and welcome—and less of what you stigmatize and
punish. San Francisco is reeling from one of the highest crime rates in the
country. It is awash in homeless people, used hypodermic needles and human
feces. And it keeps begging for more.
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