Depersonalization
Has anyone else noticed that the media has now changed the way of reporting
men and women in the military? They used to call them men or men and women.
Now they call them Troops. A troop is a man or a woman, it seems by the way its
used. i.e. 1000 troops desert, or 400 troops sent home etc. That's how to make
distance so you don't feel it.......dehumanizing. Same effect as not showing the
body bags when they come home or the funerals. In Santa Barbara, California they
have a memorial on the beach with crosses. Each week, the Veterans for Peace re-install
all the crosses of those who have died in Iraq, or is it just California deaths?
posted by corewell at 5:52 PM
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What I hate as much as the depersonalization is the bad English. A troop is a group of soliders. So the term troop is being misused; a malapropism. You can't say "4 troops were killed," or even, "troops attacked insurgents." Soldiers within a troop are troopers. So there. :o)
I agree, that journalists use the word incorrectly. How come? They went to the same schools we did.
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