Illinois Democrats Look to Change the Term “Offender” – And You’ll Never Believe What They’re Replacing It With
Scientist Steven Pinker calls it the “euphemism treadmill,’ that whenever a term for something—a kind of person, a phenomenon—gets to a certain age, people itch to replace it with something they think is nicer. What that means is that people want to wash away any negative or unflattering connotations of a current term and replace […]