Liberals don’t have any good ideas or solutions to the problems they create, but they are pretty good at rebranding stuff to make it sound less crappy. “Gun Control” sounded too fascist so they started calling it “gun safety.” Global Warming” was an issue since liberals claim it makes cold weather in the winter so they switched it up to “climate change.” In San Francisco the lefty kooks in charge think “convicted felon” unfairly brands criminals as criminals so they will henceforth be referring to them as a “justice-involved” people. No, seriously.
The SF Chronicle reports that San Francisco has had it up to here with people referring to scumbags with appropriate factually-correct terms:
The words “felon,” “offender,” “convict,” “addict” and “juvenile delinquent” would be part of the past in official San Francisco parlance under new “person first” language guidelines adopted by the Board of Supervisors.
Going forward, what was once called a convicted felon or an offender released from jail will be a “formerly incarcerated person,” or a “justice-involved” person or simply a “returning resident.”
It gets funnier because a “juvenile delinquent” will now be known as a “young person with justice system involvement,” or a “young person impacted by the juvenile justice system.”
Don’t worry, drug addicts will no longer have to suffer the stigmatism of being known as drug addicts. Going forward the city will call them “a person with a history of substance use.”
Literally every person who isn’t in a coma is a person with a history of substance use. Everything is made of substances so any time you use something, you are using a substance.
“We don’t want people to be forever labeled for the worst things that they have done. We want them ultimately to become contributing citizens, and referring to them as felons is like a scarlet letter that they can never get away from,” explained supervisor Matt Haney.
You can’t turn a bag of shit into a bag of sugar by changing the label, but whatever.
With this crazy-ass rebranding attempt, a juvenile offender convicted of a drug crime will be known as a “formerly incarcerated justice-involved returning resident young person impacted by the juvenile justice system with a history of substance use.” I think “little shit” would be fine too.
The political correctness of this is dumb, but the euphemisms are downright stupid. A “justice-involved” person sounds like some who works for the police or courts but isn’t a cop, judge or lawyer. A “young person impacted by the juvenile justice system” sounds like a kid with criminal parents who was displace when they were arrested.
For a repeat offender, they should go with “bar hopper.” A juvenile delinquent should be “spawn of shit.” For a drug addict, what’s wrong with “junkie?”
The greatest thing about this story is that San Francisco is a complete hellhole of filth and crime. The Board of Supervisors won’t do anything about the violent crime, public defection, and open drug use, but they are all over trying to de-stigmatize the scumbags who make the city a giant toilet. Liberal solutions, y’all.
