I heard from Fox News that the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation chooses not to use the words "terrorists" or "terrorism" in their reports. To do so would be judgmental. Seems to me the terrorists want to be described as such. Maybe the CBC will be blamed for escalating the horrific nature of attacks in attempts to break out of the "freedom fighters" or mere "bomber" description.
But lets say they are offended. I remember when I found out I was no longer to use the term "handicapped"; "please refer to them as 'physically challenged'". I thought, yeah but everyone is going to catch on and one day someone would be telling me the new term is a stigma, please use "disabled".
If we can't afford to offend head-chopping, school bombing, cretins as terrorists I suppose people will catch on to the euphemisms. Who would have thought 1984 would have been brought to us by the media.
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