State violence is laundered through euphemisms that mask its banned nature

Evidence

Most perpetrators use euphemistic, convoluted jargon to cloak their inhumane activities in innocuous, opaque terms. … U.S. forces used “enhanced interrogation” methods that inflict severe pain and distress—methods that are especially controversial, because they border on torture, which is internationally banned. Outsourcing such interrogations to other countries was called “extraordinary rendition.” Secret prisons run by the CIA in foreign countries, outside U.S. legal jurisdiction, were dubbed “black sites.” — Albert Bandura, Moral Disengagement, 2148

Categorization

• DEFINE: Concrete exemplars of euphemistic jargon: enhanced interrogation, extraordinary rendition, black sites.
• corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — Albert Bandura, Moral Disengagement: How People Do Harm…, 2148
• XREF: connects to: Euphemistic acronyms like PAPs obscure forced displacement’s violence. — Rob Nixon, Slow Violence and the Environmentalism…, 455; Euphemism is structurally necessary to sell wars in democracies — Rob Nixon, Slow Violence and the Environmentalism…, 665; Technocratic military jargon euphemistically erases civilian bodies from weapons’ names — Rob Nixon, Slow Violence and the Environmentalism…, 669