Moron Language (UPDATED)
/The non-transgender — at least I think so — governor of New York has solved her state’s drug problem, eliminating every single drug addict with just a stroke of her pen; genius!
Hochul administration pitches woke alternative way to refer to drug abusers instead of “addicts”
No more addicts, no more “habitual drug users” (so last year), they’ve been replaced with new, improved versions, “persons with a substance abuse disorder”. They’ll still be useless thieves sucking on the public teat, but in the world of the left, if something sounds nicer, it is nicer, no?
UPDATE: The flip side
Trump Directive Mandates Use of 'Illegal Aliens,' Not 'Undocumented Migrants'
BREAKING: New Trump directive bans use of term "migrants", mandates use of term "illegal aliens"
— Douglass Mackey (@DougMackeyCase) January 22, 2025
*We will no longer refer to aliens as migrants, noncitizens, etc. The legal term is alien and as law enforcement we will use the legal term."
What’s in a word? Plenty, in this case. “Illegal” reminds readers that these people are breaking the law, and that’s why all responsible leftist media outlets stopped using it. And “alien” — the term used in our immigration statutes — is a person who is not a naturalized citizen of the country where they are living, so it’s perfectly accurate to use the word when discussing our new friends from south of the border. Accurate, and there’s the rub: in the new world order there will be no borders, no countries, so there can be no aliens; we’re all just brothers and sisters under one loving god; imagine that.