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Montrealer who dumped water on unhoused man's face issues public apology. (m.youtube.com)
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[–] CarbonatedPastaSauce@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

Very interesting, thanks for linking it! And they even have a name for the phenomenon I described.

"Intentional shifts in terminology might seem like a game of Whac-A-Mole – an ultimately unsuccessful effort to outrun a concept’s ugly implications. The Harvard professor Steven Pinker dubbed it the “euphemism treadmill”."