Every euphemism people are using instead of calling Stephen Paddock a terrorist

64-year-old Stephen Paddock is responsible for an attack that left at least 58 people dead and more than 500 people injured in Las Vegas last night — but don’t worry, officials want you to know, at least he’s not a terrorist.

Over the past 12 hours, elected officials and select media outlets have been extremely careful about how they’ve chosen to describe the man responsible for the largest mass shooting in American historyA lone wolf. A man who doesn’t fit the mass shooter profile. 

Trump and media outlets like Breitbart, always quick to call Muslim terrorists, terrorists, selected to exercise much more restraint this time around and instead use polite euphemisms for white, male, American Paddock.  Read more…

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Source: Mashable
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