Posted on 11/20/2021 6:31:42 PM PST by SeekAndFind
The Colorado Sex Offender Management Board (SOMB) has determined that referring to people who commit sexual crimes as “sex offenders” isn’t “person-first” language.
Instead, rapists, flashers, peeping toms, and other perverts will be called an “Adult who commits sexual offenses.” According to Denver Post writer Alex Burness, “Those who supported this change feel the ‘sex offender’ label is not nuanced enough and can impede rehabilitation.”
Woke linguistics! I’m almost as sick of the world of woke, as I am of covid. https://t.co/1WCNYXucw5
— Colorado Conservative ⛪️ 👩❤️👨 🇺🇸 ⛰ 🏕 🏈 🏌️ (@COS_Conservatve) November 20, 2021
Leaving aside the documented fact that most sex offenders will re-offend and rehabilitation is a waste of time, what could these people be thinking?
“This language in the committees I’ve been on seems to be the most supported of these options. … It highlights the active reason why someone is in treatment, and it doesn’t assume the behavior is over,” SOMB member Carl Blake said.
“Victims advocates, therapists, law enforcement that I’ve spoken with, along with all of the DAs I represent, are not in favor of replacing this term,” SOMB member Jessica Dotter said.
The changes are not final. There will be a 20-day comment period for the public to weigh in before the board meets again in December.
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They need to go commit sexual offenses against themselves.
They're taking their cues as to whom should deserve honor from their heroes, like Floyd, Rosenbaum and Grosskreutz.
There are lies, damn lies, and statistics. I guess you believed the polls before Trump's election, too.
I read the whole thing you posted. It's apparently the liturgy of the Fully Woke Church of Nice.
Ha. yeah. A sex offender is a person who commits sexual offenses is a sex offender is a person who commits sexual offenses is a sex offender, etc.
I agree.
“There are lies, damn lies, and statistics. I guess you believed the polls before Trump’s election, too.”
You realize, don’t you, that when you believe that sex offenders can never stop sex offending, that you too are making a statistical statement? Yours, however, must not be a “damned statistic.”
The difference between us is that your statistical assumption comes with no evidence to support it. There is some solid evidence to support mine.
BTW, I’m pretty agnostic about most political polls. But they are considerably different than the studies I cited, which were based on measured reincarceration rates, not opinions.
Keep defending the indefensible.
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