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For everyone throwing around the words "ethnic cleansing," please remember it's a euphemism for genocide
You can just say genocide
See: George Carlin
Re: Euphemism, Soft Language
He noted that if you make the term longer and cumbersome, it loses impact. It sterilizes the idea. Shell shock became battle fatigue, then became operational exhaustion. The humanity had been wrung out of it.
“IT STERILIZES THE IDEA”
That’s it, that exactly it, I’ve never seen it phrased so brilliantly and succinctly! Politically correct euphemisms like “ethnic cleansing” soften the narrative until an atrocity is just an inconvenience, and *that* can be ignored.
