Moonbat: It Is Offensive to Call Thieves “Criminals”
Under the rules of political correctness, you are not allowed to call illegal aliens “illegal aliens,” so why should you be allowed to call criminals “criminals”?
In a recent thread on NextDoor, a group of neighbors living in the Noe Valley-Glen Park area [of San Franfreakshow] were engaged in a discussion around the city’s crime and debated whether labeling a person who commits petty theft as a “criminal” is offensive.
In the site’s Crime and Safety area, where residents share strategies for fighting crime, Malkia Cyril of S.F. suggests that her neighbors stop using the label because it shows lack of empathy and understanding.
Cyril pointed out that instead of calling the thief who took the bicycle from your garage a criminal, you could be more respectful and call him or her “the person who stole my bicycle.”
In an ideal world, he would be known as “the person who slowed down a .45 slug from my 1911 with his forehead.”
“I [suggest] that people who commit property crimes are human and deserved to be referred to in terms that acknowledge that,” Cyril, who’s the executive director of the Center for Media Justice in Oakland, writes in the thread.
“I think we should think twice before speaking in disparaging terms about ‘those criminals,’” she adds later in the thread. …
In her posts, she blames our societal problems — gentrification, economic inequality, lack of affordable housing, the defunding of public schools — for pushing people into lives of crime.
Calling thieves “criminals” implies that we are somehow responsible for our own behavior and that taking other people’s property is wrong, both of which are thought crimes. So update your Newspeak dictionaries at once
Under the rules of political correctness, you are not allowed to call illegal aliens “illegal aliens,” so why should you be allowed to call criminals “criminals”?
In a recent thread on NextDoor, a group of neighbors living in the Noe Valley-Glen Park area [of San Franfreakshow] were engaged in a discussion around the city’s crime and debated whether labeling a person who commits petty theft as a “criminal” is offensive.
In the site’s Crime and Safety area, where residents share strategies for fighting crime, Malkia Cyril of S.F. suggests that her neighbors stop using the label because it shows lack of empathy and understanding.
Cyril pointed out that instead of calling the thief who took the bicycle from your garage a criminal, you could be more respectful and call him or her “the person who stole my bicycle.”
In an ideal world, he would be known as “the person who slowed down a .45 slug from my 1911 with his forehead.”
“I [suggest] that people who commit property crimes are human and deserved to be referred to in terms that acknowledge that,” Cyril, who’s the executive director of the Center for Media Justice in Oakland, writes in the thread.
“I think we should think twice before speaking in disparaging terms about ‘those criminals,’” she adds later in the thread. …
In her posts, she blames our societal problems — gentrification, economic inequality, lack of affordable housing, the defunding of public schools — for pushing people into lives of crime.
Calling thieves “criminals” implies that we are somehow responsible for our own behavior and that taking other people’s property is wrong, both of which are thought crimes. So update your Newspeak dictionaries at once
