Saturday, November 27, 2021

Colorado plans to cancel the phrase “sex offender” because it offends sex offenders

Colorado plans to cancel the phrase “sex offender” because it offends sex offenders
"Some 20,000 sex criminals in Colorado get “treatment” from the state Sex Offender Management Board, or “SOMB.” 
It’s a big bureaucracy with layers of committees and “work groups.”
Rapists treated by the SOMB are of course not called “rapists.” 
In fact, that term appears nowhere on the big SOMB website. 
...But the SOMB now considers even “sex offender” too injurious to the feelings of sex offenders. 
That’s because “sex offender” has come to connote persons who . . . well . . . coercively, forcibly and sometimes violently prey sexually upon others – persons who commit what we used to call “rape.”
...Having eradicated rape in Colorado by semantic decree, the SOMB now has time on its hands and wants to formalize its semantics. 
It wants to adopt a new name for persons who . . . well . . . you know. 
The new name is “client.”...Read all.

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