In November, the state Sex Offender Management Board voted to replace “sex offenders” with “adults who commit sexual offenses.” Then the board opened that decision up to public comment, and that’s where things went off track. [More]
Why? What was wrong with "f***ing perverts"?
[Via cydl]
Greg Gutfeld (I think) reminds us that "sex offender" is already a euphemism, and that it made more sense in the old days when he was a kid and we identified them by their specific crimes: flasher, rapist, child molester. "If there were several of these individuals in the neighborhood, it allowed us to make judgments about which walking routes home would be more or less safe than others."
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