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LA Homeless Authority Doesn't Want Anyone Saying The Word "Homeless"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vuEQixrBKCc Euphemisms

https://summit.news/2022/08/25/la-homeless-authority-doesnt-want-anyone-saying-the-word-homeless/

The LA Homeless Services Authority has put out a call for the word
‘homeless’ to be dropped, claiming that the term is ‘outdated and
dehumanising’, and leads to ‘othering’.

The Authority, which has the word Homeless in its name, wants to see
it replaced with terms such as ‘people who live outside’ in order to
“emphasize personhood over housing status.”

    Our unhoused neighbors are human, and the language we use should
reflect that.
    Let's abandon outdated, "othering", and dehumanizing terminology-
and instead, adopt people-centered language that emphasize personhood
over housing status. pic.twitter.com/w3u2pfFbjf
    — LA Homeless Services Authority (@LAHomeless) August 22, 2022

What other terms are off limits now?

    How about "person who is addicted and mentally ill lighting fires
in the brush outside my house and walking into traffic naked in the
middle of the night"? (True story, thanks to the 344 Metro line)
    — Julie Hamill (@hamill_law) August 22, 2022

Of course, none of this will actually do anything to improve the
homelessness people living outside epidemic that is ravaging
practically every city in the country and getting worse.

Figures from January 2020 show that more than 580,000 people were
homeless in the U.S. on a given night, with an estimated 226,000 of
them sleeping outside, in cars, or in abandoned buildings. The real
number is likely to be exponentially higher.

in 2019, Los Angeles’ head of homelessness resigned after presiding
over a 33% increase in homelessness over the course of just five
years.

Homelessness comes hand in hand with drug dependence, crime, mental
illness, an increase in disease, and the ruination of communities.

Don’t say ‘homeless’ though.

This policing of language is now a common trait used as a way of
avoiding dealing with major societal issues.

Pedophiles are now to be described as “minor attracted persons”, while
“women” or “mothers” are being replaced with “birthing people” or
“pregnant people” to appease people with gender dysphoria or just
straight up mental illness.

The Academy of Breastfeeding Medicine in the U.S. has issued a new
guide, advising hospitals and health carers to change their language
to be more “gender-inclusive”.

The guide lists “traditional terms” such as ‘breast milk’ and then
suggests woke alternatives including “human milk”, “parent’s milk”,
and most ridiculously “father’s milk.”

This trend has reached as far as dictionaries literally changing the
definition of the word “female” to include anyone who identifies as
one.

We face a future where if you type the ‘wrong’ word, Google will
correct your language to help you become more ‘inclusive’.