As I read this story, I was hard-pressed to not dismiss it as some reader’s idea of a joke. If not, then surely it was the writer’s attempt at an “Onion” piece.
San Francisco neighbor says don’t call thieves ‘criminals’
But, as I plowed through it, I began to realize there was no tongue-in-cheek here.
It is just one more incredible example of the truly vacant minds of progressives. To itemize the so many stupid beliefs and distortions of reality of the woman at the center of this story is too draining, too utterly exhausting to realize that there is nothing anyone can say, can present factual refutation of her misstatements, abysmal ignorance and self-righteousness, to change anyone’s mind.
Maybe it is just a Halloween thing. Excerpt:
Is it wrong to call someone who steals a “criminal”?
In a recent thread on NextDoor, a group of neighbors living in the Noe Valley-Glen Park area were engaged in a discussion around the city’s crime and debated whether labeling a person who commits petty theft as a “criminal” is offensive.
In the site’s Crime and Safety area, where residents share strategies for fighting crime, Malkia Cyril of S.F. suggests that her neighbors stop using the label because it shows lack of empathy and understanding.
Cyril pointed out that instead of calling the thief who took the bicycle from your garage a criminal, you could be more respectful and call him or her “the person who stole my bicycle.”
“I [suggest] that people who commit property crimes are human and deserved to be referred to in terms that acknowledge that,” Cyril, who’s the executive director of the Center for Media Justice in Oakland, writes in the thread.
By the way (bold emphasis ours)
OxfordDictionaries.com defines “criminal” as:
A person who has committed a crime:
DLH
