Media vocabulary dehumanized a civilian drone survivor by labeling his home a compound.

Evidence

Sadaullah and his relatives, meanwhile, were buried under a debris of words: “militant,” “lawless,” “counterterrorism,” “compound” (a frigid term for a home). Move along, the American media told its audience, nothing to see here. Some 15 days later, after the world had forgotten, Sadaullah awoke to a nightmare. — Grégoire Chamayou, A Theory of the Drone, 495

Categorization

• XREF: Concrete instance of the euphemization mechanism; connects to the ethics-reading goal.