"Economically disadvantaged" for poor.
"Adult beverage" for hard liquor.
"Pre-owned vehicle" for used car.
"Quantitative easing" for creating money lout of nothing and giving it to banks
"Horseplay" for attempted rape
These linguistic tricks allow people to live with a reality by feeling it doesn't quite exist, swaddled as it is in these carefully prepared euphemisms. When the media employ this swarm of euphemisms, the people lose the ability to feel what is going on.
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