Despite years of official denials, American Muslim civil rights groups have claimed that Barack Obama's Countering Violent Extremism (CVE) initiative was a euphemistic approach that targeted Muslims for surveillance.
Rather, they arose from exactly what Fest described, placing the "the persecutors and the persecuted" (itself a damnable bit of euphemistic Officialese that means "the Nazis and the Jews") on the same moral footing.
In this instance, I let the comedian himself have the last word: " 'My considered opinion of Nixon versus Kennedy is that neither can win.' " The picnic-table crisis came along toward the end of my second year as a New Yorker staff writer (a euphemistic term that means unsalaried freelance close to the magazine).
In January 2016, Pearson announced that it would be cutting 4,000 jobs (roughly ten percent of its workforce) in a the second "restructuring" (a euphemistic term that never means a company is doing well) under its current CEO, John Fallon.
It was DOEE's similarly euphemistic language that triggered intense public outcry to the draft version of the Plan earlier this year, in part because of the long history of TNR efforts in our nation's capitol.
It's like every policy proposal is like, "OK, what if we took everything away from people and gave it to billionaires, and then let everyone die on the streets?" I guess I don't really feel like being delicate and gentle and euphemistic about that anymore.
Before assuming a given official is prone to corruption, try to quietly learn the euphemistic language that surrounds bribery (e.g. "administrative fee", especially if paid in cash, often means someone is getting a bribe).
I noticed, in the obituaries for Philip Seymour Hoffman, how many writers felt obliged to say that he was fat (or euphemistic words to that effect) and exclaimed that, despite this, he was a star.
They are failing to express themselves in the delicate, euphemistic, "ladylike" manner that has been prescribed for them throughout history.
So as I turned the pages of this little collection of verses, legends, toasts and prayers and that euphemistic "Irish luck," I reflected on the little there is in my own heritage.
