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A comment on Stanford's “Elimination of Harmful Language” Initiative. Parent comment

Re:Stanford's “Elimination of Harmful Language” Initiative by khazhoux on Sunday December 18, 2022 @05:05PM (#34044082)
> "Died by suicide" implies passivity. It just happened to them.

Like "Officer involved shootings."

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Re:Stanford's “Elimination of Harmful Language” Initiative by sicp-enjoyer on Sunday December 18, 2022 @05:43PM (#34044772)
Exactly.
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Re:Stanford's “Elimination of Harmful Language” Initiative by Ticklee on Sunday December 18, 2022 @06:44PM (#34045820)
Well with officer involved shootings I can kind of understand the passive perspective, seeing as cops are not really acting on their own accord.
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Re:Stanford's “Elimination of Harmful Language” Initiative by khazhoux on Monday December 19, 2022 @03:37PM (#34057325)
I genuinely don't understand this comment.

In the olden days, a news report would say "A suspect was fatally shot by a police officer."

Now, they'll only say "A suspect was fatally injured during an officer-involved shooting."

Which is like, yeah no kidding the officer was "involved" -- he pulled the trigger!

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