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?

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[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