I know we're all being facetious in this thread, but I believe that there actually is an unintended consequence of softening language (and this has bitten the left in the ass).
If you make undesirable things sound desirable then people lose some motivation to escape from those undesirable things. We started calling ghettos "projects" and now there's less shame in living there. We stop calling it Welfare and start calling it Public Assistance, same thing.
I'll even paraphrase George Carlin: I bet we'd take PTSD more seriously if it was still called "Shell Shock."
If such a thing as a "slave gulag" existed, that'd probably be the best name for it, because it sounds like a place nobody wants to be.
I know we're all being facetious in this thread, but I believe that there actually is an unintended consequence of softening language (and this has bitten the left in the ass).
If you make undesirable things sound desirable then people lose some motivation to escape from those undesirable things. We started calling ghettos "projects" and now there's less shame in living there. We stop calling it Welfare and start calling it Public Assistance, same thing.
I'll even paraphrase George Carlin: I bet we'd take PTSD more seriously if it was still called "Shell Shock."
If such a thing as a "slave gulag" existed, that'd probably be the best name for it, because it sounds like a place nobody wants to be.