QUOTE : Euphemisms hide, erase, coat. Euphemisms lead us to tolerate the unacceptable. And, eventually, to forget. Against a euphemism, remembrance. In order to not repeat. Remember terms and meanings. Their absurd disjointedness. Term: Our Peculiar Institution. Meaning: slavery. (Epitome of all euphemisms.) Term: Removal. Meaning: expulsion and dispossession of people from their land. Term: Placing out. Meaning: expulsion of abandoned children from the East Coast. Term: Relocation. Meaning: confining people in reservations. Term: Reservations. Meaning: a wasteland, a sentence to perpetual poverty. Term: Removal. Meaning: expulsion of people seeking refuge. Term: Undocumented. Meaning: people who will be removed.