Deadly Euphemism: Difference between revisions

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== [[Western Animation]] ==

* ''[[~~Re Boot~~]]'' often used "erase" and "delete" in place of death. Since this show is [[Cyberspace|inside a computer]] this is appropriate given what erasing and deleting do to actual code. There's really no attempt at hiding what those words actually mean in this show.

* ''[[ReBoot]]'' often used "erase" and "delete" in place of death. Since this show is [[Cyberspace|inside a computer]], this is appropriate, given what erasing and deleting do to actual code. There's really no attempt at hiding what those words actually mean in this show.

* Subverted on an [[Non Sequitur Episode|episode]] of [[The Mask (animation)|The Mask]], that parodied [[Planet of the Apes]]. Characters are told that they will be "terminated", and assume the natives are out to kill them, but as it turns out that just means they will be fired from the city-enveloping [[Mega Corp|corporation]] (which they, being from another time, don't actually work for).

* Subverted on an [[Non Sequitur Episode|episode]] of ''[[The Mask (animation)|The Mask]]'', that parodied [[Planet of the Apes]]. Characters are told that they will be "terminated", and assume the natives are out to kill them, but as it turns out that just means they will be fired from the city-enveloping [[Mega Corp|corporation]] (which they, being from another time, don't actually work for).

* Parodied on ''[[The Simpsons]]'':

{{quote|'''Fat Tony''': The sit-down’s tonight? Again this Palm Pilot has failed to remind me! I believe this needs to be hot-synced. [''Louie takes Palm Pilot and shoots it''] What are you doing?!

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== Real Life ==

* [http://www.nizkor.org/features/techniques-of-denial/st-01.html "Special treatment"] was one of the euphemisms used by the Nazis. Others include the special units (work units of death camps) and task forces (death squads).

** The Nazis had a sort of hierarchy of euphemisms concerning the Holocaust: the phrase "resettlement in the East" was used for general public consumption. "Final Solution to the Jewish Question," for most government documents, "liquidation" for those pertaining directly to the Holocaust. "Annihilation of the Jewish race in Europe" was used only in the most closed circumstances, to those who knew the stakes."

** The Nazis had a sort of hierarchy of euphemisms concerning the Holocaust: the phrase "resettlement in the East" was used for general public consumption. "Final Solution to the Jewish Question," for most government documents, "liquidation" for those pertaining directly to the Holocaust. "Annihilation of the Jewish race in Europe" was used only in the most closed circumstances, to those who knew the stakes.

** The term "concentration camp" was a Deadly Euphemism used by the Nazis for the death camps they used to exterminate Jews and other undesirables. The original definition of "concentration camp" was a place to imprison large populations of people without the intent of killing them, similar to the internment camps that held Japanese Americans during [[World War II]].

* The Soviets (more specifically Soviet foreign minister Vyacheslav Molotov), during the Winter War, referred to the bombings on the Finnish people as "airdropping food to the starving Finnish." Ironically, this resulted in the Finnish coining the infamous name of their improvised incendiary weapon, the [[Molotov Cocktail]].