Technocratic military jargon euphemistically erases civilian bodies from weapons’ names

Evidence

Landmines aren’t called landmines in military jargon. The technically correct term is anti-personnel mines, to distinguish them from mines that target tanks and other vehicles. “Anti-personnel,” however, is one of those verbal fudgings that under the guise of technocratic exactitude obscures what it purports to reveal. “Anti-personnel” is a faceless word, a word without hands or feet or arms or legs. — Rob Nixon, Slow Violence and the Environmentalism…, 669

Categorization

• DEFINE: Explains how technocratic renaming (‘anti-personnel’) launders the brutal meaning of landmines.
• XREF: connects to: Euphemistic acronyms like PAPs obscure forced displacement’s violence. — Rob Nixon, Slow Violence and the Environmentalism…, 455; The term anti-personnel falsely implies mines target military organizations, not civilians — Rob Nixon, Slow Violence and the Environmentalism…, 670; Military killing is bureaucratized through sanitized and borrowed jargon. — Albert Bandura, Moral Disengagement: How People Do Harm…, 367 (+3 more)

Broader Connections

• Military euphemisms recruit language to obscure the reality of killing #exemplifies (0.90) — Albert Bandura, Moral Disengagement, 2368
• Military killing is bureaucratized through sanitized and borrowed jargon. #corroborates (0.87) — Albert Bandura, Moral Disengagement, 367
• Bureaucratic-juridical vocabulary itself euphemizes the violence of drone strikes. #expands (0.82) — Grégoire Chamayou, A Theory of the Drone, 491
• State violence is laundered through euphemisms that mask its banned nature #corroborates (0.80) — Albert Bandura, Moral Disengagement, 2148