Euphemism can be a deliberate strategy for winning broader political support.

Evidence

The fact that Studies in Prejudice' was chosen as the series title rather than Studies in Anti-Semitism’ stemmed from the caution of a Jewish organization intent on assimilation, and not from the notion that, after the industrialized and bureaucratized murder of millions of Jews and other minorities, the apparently harmless-sounding term `prejudice’ was so laden with horror that it could be used without any risk of euphemism. It was a euphemism, and it was being used for reasons of caution and in the hope that democrats would be more likely to respond to a call to fight prejudice and social discrimination in general than they would be to a call to fight anti-Semitism. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 433

Categorization

• DEFINE: This is the correct provenance of the ‘Studies in Prejudice’ title: assimilationsit caution inside a Jewish organization, not sensitivity to post-Holocaust horror.
• XREF: Connects to the reader’s existing material on how rhetorical framing (e.g. ‘immodesty’ panics, FOIA exemption language) is chosen to secure coalitional buy-in rather than describe reality. — connects to: Euphemism is structurally necessary to sell wars in democracies — Rob Nixon, Slow Violence and the Environmentalism…, 665; Political groups adopt nationalist rhetoric opportunistically — Neil DeVotta, Sinhalese Buddhist Nationalist…, 159; Anti-CRT discourse functions as a strategy for seizing institutional power. (+3 more)
• yield-rescued: below the book’s yield-target cutoff, included anyway for connecting to: Euphemism is structurally necessary to sell wars in democracies — Rob Nixon, Slow Violence and the Environmentalism…, 665; Political groups adopt nationalist rhetoric opportunistically — Neil DeVotta, Sinhalese Buddhist Nationalist…, 159; Anti-CRT discourse functions as a strategy for seizing institutional power. (+3 more)

Broader Connections

• Diverting popular anger onto secondary targets protects ruling-class power #complicates (0.72) — Antonio Gramsci, Selections from the Prison Notebooks, 2276