It’s only May, but I think I’ve found the euphemism of the year: According to Team Obama, criminals should now be declared “justice-involved individuals.”
The neo-Orwellianism comes to us from the bizarre flurry of last-minute diktats, regulations and bone-chilling threats collectively known to fanboys as Obama’s Gorgeous Goodbye.
In another of those smiley-faced, but deeply sinister, “Dear Colleague” letters sent to universities and college this week, Obama’s Education Secretary John King discouraged colleges from asking applicants whether they were convicted criminals.
An accompanying pamphlet was called “Beyond the Box: Increasing Access to Higher Education for Justice-Involved Individuals.”
So rapists, burglars, armed robbers and drug dealers aren’t criminals anymore. These folks are simply “involved” with “justice,” according to Obamanoids.
Maybe they’re right: “Criminals” is an inherently disparaging term that leads to stigmatization and decreased access to Eugene O’Neill seminars. But don’t we need to retroactively reconfigure how we think of those unfortunate souls who found themselves pursued by harsh enforcers of restrictive behavioral norms?
When you think about it, Jack the Ripper was merely a “cutlery-involved individual” while Jeffrey Dahmer was simply a “unconventional dietary-options-involved individual.”
Colleges generally ask whether applicants have criminal records, and for excellent reason. Parents probably don’t want their eager young freshperson daughter Molly living across the hall from a rapist — I mean, sexual-justice-involved individual.
King notes that when you ask college applicants about whether they brutalized, mugged or otherwise committed outrages against their fellow human beings, the ugly specter of “disparate impact” arises. The black crime rate is higher than the white crime rate, so the “Are you a criminal?” question is bound to do injury to blacks, or so goes the reasoning.
Obama is fighting the war for criminals to get closer to you on several fronts. Last month, through the Department of Housing and Urban Development, he went after landlords, threatening them with penalties if they barred criminals from living in their buildings.
In November, Obama unilaterally ordered federal agencies to strike the box asking applicants whether they had committed crimes and referred to criminals as “folks.” This would be the same president who on Oct. 25, 2010, referred to Republicans as “enemies” and suggested voters should “punish” them. Convicted rapists? They’re just “folks.”
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5 comments:
Dave T: thank God there are only a few months until the complete idiocy of this goon we elected president comes to an end. This game he's played throughout two terms of adding euphemistic language to everything undesirable to his mixed up ideology is more than the American people should have to bear. We have all witnessed many times that incidents such as this are not the mark of a leader, but rather the mark of true incompetence at it's best. It reminds me of a great quote offered by the philosopher Plato and is well fitted to this scenario, "the punishment you will receive for not being involved with politics, is that you will be ruled by your inferiors." My it certainly seems fitting of the politics I see today. Our country is being run by a man who has no semblance of what it is to work for a living or maintain a budget. He leads from behind, weakens our military, and caters to our enemies. Now in his final days as a lame duck, he is still incapable of doing anything resourceful and chooses to further create unnecessary confusion by degrading the label given to those who choose to break the law. Mr. Obama your have certainly earned the title in my book of "worst president in American history." I never intended to give it to you, but your actions speak much louder than your words. Congratulations.
AMEN!!
Of course he doesn't think he is. me
3:31pm
You are so right. Obamas daughters will always be guarded.
Jerry Sandusky was a Genital guidance councilor then under this.
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