Monday, July 1, 2013

Children in Conflict with the Law

I came across this term used several times in a news article I read today. I had never seen it before, so I googled it and got almost a million hits -- the first several of which were from UNICEF. This leads me to believe that it is the new (or maybe not-so-new, I'm not up on such things) PC term for what we used to call juvenile delinquents.

One of the really hilarious things about do-gooders is that they seem to honestly think that changing words changes reality; that if a thing or situation or group is negatively perceived by the public, that changing the name will change the perception and solve all the problems associated with the thing/situation/group.

It doesn't work, but they keep doing it. What does that tell us about them?

2 comments:

  1. I read this subject line and had no idea what it was referring to. Perhaps the goal is to confuse us.

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  2. You're probably one of those retrograde types who think that garbage men should not be called 'waste disposal workers'.

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