Woke media outlets refuse to say “homeless” and instead say “people experiencing homelessness.”
It’s supposed to seem more evolved — like they’re not defining someone by a lack of home. But they are.
It’s just a verbose way of saying the exact same thing.
It sounds like more alterations of language to be politically correct.
We hear sometimes about “pregnant people” rather than “pregnant women”, because they don’t want to assume that only women would be pregnant. After all, there was once a “transgender” man who was pregnant. Thus in their world, men can be pregnant too, so we don’t want to stereotype anyone.
It’s along the lines of how we aren’t supposed to say “illegal aliens” anymore, because that is now considered pejorative, even though it is perfectly descriptive.
Good catch.
Years ago, Gore Vidal made an interesting observation. Vidal had had many affairs with men. He was somewhat famous for it. He said that "no one is homosexual". He said that the phrase was essentially meaningless. The topic, really, was about behavior. Some men committed homosexual acts. Some men spent their entire lives committing homosexual acts. He was one such man. But he made the point that there was nothing inherently or irrevocably "homosexual" about any one.
Of course, the Left rejects such thinking today.
The Left would now say that "homosexual" would the absolute essence of some people. It's not about behavior. It's who you are.
Oh, but "homeless"? Hey, that's not who you are! You're just a person "experiencing homelessness".
They seem to like having it both ways.
“...Woke media outlets refuse to say “homeless”...”
Would they prefer the terms tramps or bums?
Back in my childhood days (80 yrs ago) they were called bums.
Just saying