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by freeflight
2915 days ago
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> The connotations are attached to the people, not the word. Language is a living thing. If you reserve usage of certain terminology to specific people, then negative connotations can easily attach themselves to both of them in combination, thus fundamentally changing how positive/negative certain terminology is perceived by the general population. We've been witnessing this live, in reality, for these past years: If you talk about "immigrant crime" often enough many people will see most, if not all, crime in the context of supposedly increasing immigration. Completely ignoring any other contributing factors to crime, completely ignoring actual crime statistics and trends. [0] [0] https://www.unodc.org/unodc/en/data-and-analysis/statistics/... |
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