>When the San Francisco Board of Supervisors replaces felon with justice-involved person, it is making an ideological claim—that there is something illegitimate about laws, courts, and prisons.
Wouldn't it be more appropriate, thoughtful and sensible to use the term "justice oppressed person instead"?
I'm going to guess this wasn't done for the benefit of felons, who would probably laugh and roll there eyes, or get pissed at the thought that changing a word to a phrase helps their situation in any sort of way. In general with this sort of thing, how is a phrase preferable to a word? You're increasing the cognitive load and time to write it out.
Wouldn't it be more appropriate, thoughtful and sensible to use the term "justice oppressed person instead"?