Newspeak Watch: "Justice-Impacted Individual"

LOOOL

This is almost a throwback to classic paleo-PC Newspeak. I'd have to think more about what the essential characteristics of this stuff are, but they're something like:

(a) Obfuscation

(b) Inaccuracy

(c) Pseudo-technicality

   'Justice-impacted individual's got 'em all...

   First, of course, it wears its pretention to technicality on its face. It's got the ring of technical jargon to it. This is not merely to bamboozle the mundanes; rather, the PCs seem to genuinely believe that they are technicians or engineers of some kind, working and speaking with genuine precision. It's the utterest bullshit...but that's what they think. 

  But the actual compositional meaning of the term is a laughable wreck. Justice "impacted" these individuals? Justice did? The...what? Universal? That's a helluva thing... As you may be able to puzzle out, the term is actually supposed to pick out people who interact with the "justice system" in certain ways. Now, as this is a blue-state scam (of course) (Illinois (which basically now means: Cook County)), it's only about criminals Sorry! "offenders!" No, sorry! "newcomers!" No, sorry! That's a different bit of bullshit...

   So, this isn't supposed to refer to victims...nor anyone else "impacted" by the system in any other way...just crooks. 

   But, of course, that's one of the standard ploys of PC newspeak: obscure the directionality of the term. Not 'immigrants'--'migrants'! That way it doesn't specify which way they're going! Even though it's a euphemism intended to be used only for people sneaking in... So if someone is concerned about "illegal migration," for all we know they're talking about Kansans sneaking into Mexico...

And a "justice-impacted individual"...well...it technically means criminals...but you can't tell that from the word... This allows us to obscure the difference between perpetrators and victims!

   The fake air of technicality does not bring precision, but, rather, imprecision. Which is exactly what they actually want...

   Political correctness is Orwellianism.

   And it is the cornerstone of the contemporary progressive left.