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To: rintintin

Why do they say people experiencing homelessness? It sounds like an awkward word choice to me. We aren’t supposed to say homeless people? Instead we’re supposed to say that people are having a homeless experience? But we aren’t supposed to say the people involved are homeless?

Since they said “people experiencing hopelessness” twice, I’m assuming that that is a conscious decision made on the part of newspaper people to describe this population who live on the streets.


4 posted on 05/24/2020 9:32:47 PM PDT by Dilbert San Diego
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To: Dilbert San Diego

I think they are cleaning up so that the “people experiencing homelessness” don’t also experience the “European virus”.

Someone should make a glossary of all these terms.


6 posted on 05/24/2020 9:36:07 PM PDT by edwinland
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Because the meme of the left the last few years is “we’re all just one step away from homelessness”. This plays into that theme “they didn’t do anything wrong, they’re just experiencing homelessness. YOU COULD BE NEXT”

It’s all BS leftist word games


8 posted on 05/24/2020 9:44:06 PM PDT by sicsempertyrannisDenver
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To: Dilbert San Diego

“Why do they say people experiencing homelessness? It sounds like an awkward word choice to me. “


It’s like the phrase “enslaved people” replacing “slaves” now often used in school textbooks. Five syllables replacing one.


12 posted on 05/24/2020 9:59:32 PM PDT by hanamizu
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To: Dilbert San Diego
Since they said “people experiencing hopelessness” twice, I’m assuming that that is a conscious decision made on the part of newspaper people to describe this population who live on the streets.

It's the constant Media campaign to redefine down any words that correctly, and succinctly, define the detritus of society. Evidently "bum", "drunk", "drug addict" is too harsh, even though it better describes those people.

God, what wussies.

30 posted on 05/25/2020 6:37:53 PM PDT by Oatka
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