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Wash. lawmaker wants to banish negative language

SEATTLE (AP) — Decades ago, poor children became known as “disadvantaged” to soften the stigma of poverty. Then they were “at-risk.” Now, a Washington lawmaker wants to replace those euphemisms with a new one, “at hope.”

Democratic State Sen. Rosa Franklin says negative labels are hurting kids’ chances for success and she’s not a bit concerned that people will be confused by her proposed rewrite of the 54 places in state law where words like “at risk” and “disadvantaged” are used.

The bill has gotten a warm welcome among fellow lawmakers, state officials and advocacy groups.

That’s because Washington State is full of liberal pandering kooks.  Lady, did you actually think much of anyone would laugh your idea right out of the Capitol Building?

“We really put too many negatives on our kids,” says Franklin, who is the state Senate’s president pro tem. “We need to come up with positive terms.”

It’s all an extension of Bush/NCLB/soft bigotry of low expectations bullshit.  N’Deshawntavious isn’t a nuclear physicist because all those white liberal <sarcasm>racist bigot Kluxers</sarcasm> expects him to be a nuclear physicist?  Now, since they’re not “at risk” or “disadvantaged” anymore, does this mean we don’t have to spend extragant sums of money on them?  They’re right on the vestibule of hope, after all.