• ieatpwns@lemmy.world
    89·
    2 months ago

    The country disappearing its own citizens claims another country isn’t protecting its own

    How quaint

    • D_C@lemm.ee
      8·
      2 months ago

      disappearingKIDNAPPING.
      It’s kidnapping. Or abduction.

      • Kbobabob@lemmy.world
        8·
        2 months ago

        Don’t kidnappers usually try to return the kidnapped in exchange for something? I think disappearing is an apt description.

        • D_C@lemm.ee
          1·
          2 months ago

          Horses for courses, I suppose.

          I feel that it’s downplaying the seriousness of what is happening to these people a bit.
          To me the statement “US Government Disappears Student” is not as worrying as “US Government Abducts Student”

          • JackbyDev@programming.devEnglish
            2·
            2 months ago

            Well, the reason I don’t view it as a euphemism is because it’s typically associated with totalitarian regimes. The government “disappears” people. See here,

            to cause (someone or something) to disappear:

            a: to abduct and kill or imprison (someone, such as a political dissident) while withholding information about the person’s fate

            Her son was disappeared during Argentina’s so-called ‘Dirty War.’— Associated Press

            “Disappearing” someone carries more weight than “abducting” someone.