Federal Contractor to DHS: Ditch Offensive Terms Like “Jihadist” and “Illegal Immigrant”

People don’t ever seem to stay in their lane these days, huh?

Hundreds of millions of our tax dollars are going to this company so they can turn around and tell us how evil and racist we are? Sounds like we’re getting the short end of the stick on that one…

But it gets even more asinine… because we asked them to do it.

From the Daily Wire:

A federal contractor that’s received hundreds of millions of dollars from the federal government is pushing the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) to adopt “inclusive language,” replacing terms like “illegal immigrant” with “undocumented noncitizen,” “riot” with “protest,” and suggesting that terms such as “looter” and “jihadist” have become “racially charged.”

The report from the RAND Corporation, a nonprofit which operates the Homeland Security Operational Analysis Center as a “federally funded research and development center,” charges the DHS uses language that is “insulting, demeaning, dehumanizing, offensive, embarrassing, or othering or otherwise make individuals feel uncomfortable, marginalized, disrespected, or unsafe.”

Titled “Language, Labels, and the DHS Lexicon,” the report was drafted on behalf of the agency’s Office for Civil Rights and Civil Liberties. It particularly focuses on immigration enforcement, counterterrorism efforts, and law enforcement, charging that these three operation areas use offensive language, relying on interviews with 15 individuals under the jurisdiction of DHS.

The 84-page report specifically requests that DHS ditch the term “illegal immigrant” in favor of “undocumented noncitizen” while replacing the word “assimilation” with “civic integration.” It even proposed replacing the term “unlawful entry” with “entry without inspection” or “undocumented entry.”

But the report goes beyond the issue of immigration, even suggesting that the DHS should modify its use of “male” and “female” by adding “nonbinary, cisgender,” and “transgender.” It also calls for the word “riot” to be replaced with “protest” despite the two words not being synonymous.

The report even charged that certain terms have “taken on a racialized or racially charged aspect beyond what their legal or common definition might be,” resulting in “disparate impact.” Terms like “looter,” “trespasser,” “rioter,” and “jihadist” are said to have “become racially charged as they are mostly applied to individuals of a particular race and not to White individuals.”

It goes on to call on DHS to adopt “inclusive language” and offer training on “the use of inclusive, person-centric language, particularly for minority and historically marginalized groups.” But the report even claims that as of now, “the use of certain terms and language by DHS personnel is … making the job of securing the homeland more difficult for its employees.”

The Rand Corporation confirmed in a statement to The Daily Wire that it had produced the report at the request of DHS’s Office of Civil Rights and Civil Liberties, specifying that it was asked “to examine the department’s use of terminology in its documents and procedures, identify ways to improve it, and to create an organizational culture that supports the lasting implementation of updated terminology.”

I have a better idea… how about we just stop letting these people walk across the border at all? Then we wouldn’t have to worry about what to call them. Sounds like a solid plan, doesn’t it?

Maybe I’m exposing my “colonialist” cards here, but I don’t really see where these terms are all that “exclusive.” It sounds more like terms you earn through the type of behavior you’re acting out. If you are a jihadist, or you are an illegal immigrant, then I feel like there’s not much else to work with…

I fervently believe that demands for “inclusive” language have served as the catalyst for the flaming hellscape of popular culture in which we currently find ourselves. Language is fundamentally exclusive. The sooner you realize that, the more time you’ll have to protest the pay gap between centaurs and mermaids…