Re:Why We Banned the Word “Ethnic” (2019)
by rectang on Sunday March 13, 2022 @12:07PM
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Categorizing this policy as an Orwellian "destruction of words", when simply reading the piece makes it clear that the intent is greater accuracy, is analogous to the laziness of throwing everything into the "ethnic tensions" bucket.
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Ah, but this is the first step in Orwellian destruction of words.
At this point, unless they violate this rule, no one in the press will accuse Putin of ethnic cleansing.
Instead, we get complicated, varied, descriptions of individual events (“they bombed a school”, “a rocket hit a maternity ward”). Each could be discounted as one off accidents instead of a systematic campaign.