Language can be weaponized to sanitize wrongdoing

Evidence

The chapters that follow illustrate how wordsmiths in all walks of life use sanitizing and obfuscating language in the service of harmful purposes. Each year the National Council of Teachers of English selects winners for both the NCTE Doublespeak Award and the Orwell Award. — Albert Bandura, Moral Disengagement, 388

Categorization

• XREF: The Doublespeak Award institutionalizing detection of deceptive euphemism directly parallels vault claims about how ordinary people rationalize harmful Islamophobic policy by absorbing sanitized official vocabulary. — connects to: Technical jargon functions as a silencing weapon against unschooled residents — Luke W. Cole and Sheila R. Foster, From the Ground Up: Environmental…, 235; Euphemistic language like ‘collateral damage’ severs accountability for harm — Robin Wall Kimmerer, Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom,…, 1281; Dictation and decree both dam languages against contamination and change. — Édouard Glissant, Poetics of Relation, 527
• corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — Albert Bandura, Moral Disengagement: How People Do Harm…, 388