Vile euphemisms of our time

[perlmonger]

• "*" awareness (where "*" is "disability" or, especially, "autism" dkmnow)


• "choice" (ccomley)


• chopped and shaped (inspired by easterbunny)


• compassionate conservatism (burkesworks)


• ethnic cleansing


• family friendly (minkboylove)


• extraordinary rendition


• for your convenience = "for our convenience" (etrigan)


• illegal combatant (landsmand)


• modernisation (as a synonym for "evisceration")


• right-sizing (mr_tom)


• security contractors (as euphemism for mercenaries dkmnow)


• total quality management (landsmand)


• user involvement (drpete)


• war on terror (dkmnow)

Any more for any more?

Comments

[burkesworks.livejournal.com]

"Compassionate conservatism", anyone?

[perlmonger.livejournal.com]

ho yus

[minkboylove.livejournal.com]

Surely that's an oxymoron?

[ccomley.livejournal.com]

Not 100% sure it fits but "choice"?

[perlmonger.livejournal.com]

Oh, yes it does...

[mr-tom.livejournal.com]

'right-sizing'

[etriganuk.livejournal.com]

"for your convenience" = "for our convenience"

[drpete.livejournal.com]

User Involvement

[minkboylove.livejournal.com]

'Family Friendly'?

[perlmonger.livejournal.com]

Oh, *YES*

That one deserves a list all of its own for the monstrosities committed under its name...

[easterbunny.livejournal.com]

Reconstituted chicken.

[perlmonger.livejournal.com]

A bit specific, perhaps (have you had a particularly horrible personal experience here?)

I'll add "chopped and shaped" to the list, though, as a catch-all for the rebranding of slops, scrapings and the bits too nasty even to put into sausages as "food".

[landsmand.livejournal.com]

"business process re-engineering"
"total quality management"
"acceptable risk to human resources"
"unexpected collateral kinetic effects"
"illegal combatant"

[perlmonger.livejournal.com]

ahh... business and HR speak is a whole new kettle of entrails

[dkmnow.livejournal.com]

"awareness" ... as in "disability awareness" and especially "autism awareness" ... or "information awareness" as relates to the so-called "war on terror"

speaking of which...

"war on terror" as euphemism for setting up prerequisite conditions for a state of protofascism (http://www.secularhumanism.org/index.php?section=library&page=britt_23_2)

and

"security contractors" as euphemism for mercenaries