What’s a “justice-involved person”?

The words [Equity-language] guides recommend or reject are sometimes exactly the same, justified in nearly identical language.

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Although the guides refer to language “evolving,” these changes are a revolution from above. They haven’t emerged organically from the shifting linguistic habits of large numbers of people.

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Prison does not become a less brutal place by calling someone locked up in one a person experiencing the criminal-justice system.

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The whole tendency of equity language is to blur the contours of hard, often unpleasant facts. This aversion to reality is its main appeal. Once you acquire the vocabulary, it’s actually easier to say people with limited financial resources than the poor.

  • lolcatnip@reddthat.comEnglish
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    9 months ago

    I don’t really care if the intent is good if the effect is to make people use language that’s wordy, clumsy, or vague, or to shame people for using perfectly ordinary vocabulary. I don’t believe it actually helps anyone, and it reeks of the kind of logic that says “we must do something, and this is something, so we must do this.”