A spade has to be called a spade. In the Torah there is a place for the most explicit terminology in the appropriate context. This is more than just concern for the accurate transmission of the Law. It implies that language has an absolute value . It subtly invokes its own value judgments which are as least as biased as those it seeks to replace.
Words are the bridge between the metaphysical and the physical.
His job was to defraud history. Smith was changing reality. When we politicize the words that describe the world, we limit the palette of our perception. We limit the colors of our sensitivity. We interpose a gray mask of euphemism.