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> politically exposed persons I do not know what this euphemism means. Is this like the modern trend of calling inmates “justice involved individuals”?
by IgorPartola 8mo ago
> politically exposed persons
I do not know what this euphemism means. Is this like the modern trend of calling inmates “justice involved individuals”?
- parrellel 8mo agoTranslate: People who are likely to be attacked by (Putin|Orban|Erdogan|Trump) or similar.
- IgorPartola 8mo agoApparently that’s not what Wikipedia defines it as. More like potentially shady high level government official.
- parrellel 8mo agoInteresting, I've mostly heard it referring to individuals like Navalny or the mayor of Istanbul. I suppose it makes sense for it to refer to any random political critter.
- john_strinlai 8mo agoits not some new/modern trend just because you have not seen the term. its been a term for nearly 3 decades. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Politically_exposed_person https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Politically_exposed_person
- IgorPartola 8mo agoI mean today I am one of the 10,000 people learning this for the first time. But it does seem like an awkward term which seems to mean “high level government official who is likely to be corrupt” or just “politician”. Don’t really see the need for this wordplay to be honest.