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What term do leftists and the media use to refer to you?
Brain dead hick? *******? Clinger? Tea bagger? A hateful bigot?
That's all fine and good; those of you who work hard, pay your taxes, take care of your families, abide by the law and happen to disagree with leftists can be stigmatized and marginalized until the cows come home.
But we should stop referring to felons and convicts as felons and convicts.
http://www.foxnews.com/us/2016/05/05/doj-to-nix-felon-convict-terms-deemed-stigmatizing.html?intcmp=hpbt3
Brain dead hick? *******? Clinger? Tea bagger? A hateful bigot?
That's all fine and good; those of you who work hard, pay your taxes, take care of your families, abide by the law and happen to disagree with leftists can be stigmatized and marginalized until the cows come home.
But we should stop referring to felons and convicts as felons and convicts.
http://www.foxnews.com/us/2016/05/05/doj-to-nix-felon-convict-terms-deemed-stigmatizing.html?intcmp=hpbt3
Instead, Assistant Attorney General Karol Mason said the “disparaging labels†will be replaced by “person who committed a crime†or “individual who was incarcerated.†The new lexicon is set to be utilized in “speeches, solicitations, website content and social media posts†emanating from the Office of Justice Programs.
“I have come to believe that we have a responsibility to reduce not only the physical but also the psychological barriers to reintegration,†Mason wrote. “The labels we affix to those who have served time can drain their sense of self-worth and perpetuate a cycle of crime, the very thing re-entry programs are designed to prevent.â€
J. Christian Adams, an attorney and ex-DOJ official, said the move is the latest attempt by the Obama administration “to destigmatize the most abhorrent behavior.†Referring to ex-cons as “felons†is a good thing, Adams told FoxNews.com.
“It helps people make important decisions about hiring, about renting, about associating with people who have shown a proclivity to break the law,†he said. “Shame is not a bad thing. It’s helped civilization rise. And people who cannot be trusted, who have committed violent crimes in the past, there’s nothing wrong with calling them exactly what they ar â€" and that is felons.â€