Against Euphemism II

“Authority”- Power systems and those in those systems who wield power.

“Underprivileged”- The American poor. Shitty schools go with that. (That really IS a “disadvantage.” A crippling one, in fact.) Term applied to domestic “racial minorities” on the bottom rungs of the U.S. socio-economic ladder.

“Disadvantaged”- Oppressed and repressed U.S. domestic “racial minorities” on the bottom rungs of the socio-economic ladder.

“Free Enterprise”- Laissez-faire U.S. capitalism overlaid with a patina of sham regulation.

“Security:” Power and domination. As in “national security,” (the power of the nation-state),
“U.S. security,” “Israel's security,” etc.

“Pro-Israeli”- Pro brutal repression of the Palestinians. Anti-Palestinian.

"Reform"- Making something worse. As in “reforming Social Security,” or “reforming teachers' tenure,” or “reforming public workers' pensions.”

"Strengthening"- Making more brutally repressive. In the context of the military, wasting even more money on, increasing the militarization of U.S. society.

“Bring to justice-” Take revenge on. For example, after the “Islamic State” executed a captured American freelance journalist in retaliation for U.S. bombing attacks on them in Iraq, the U.S. Attorney General, Eric “Due Process Means We Kill You If We Feel Like It” Holder, Jr., angrily vowed that the perpetrators would be “brought to justice one way or another.” Meaning; capture and execute, or just execute. Likewise, the assassination by military commandos of Osama bin Laden was described by government officials from Obama on down as having “brought [him] to justice.”

“A challenge” or “challenges”- Problems.

“Police tactics”- police violence, brutality, and repression. Example: “On Staten Island, Thousands Protest Police Tactics,” (New York Times headline, Sunday, August 24, 2014, page 17). They were protesting the “tactic” of choking to death Eric Garner, on the street, for the “crime” of selling single cigarettes without giving the government its cut (“tax”). Basically what the poor have to do to survive in America is defined as criminal, including begging.

See also: “Against Euphemism.”