[uspol][the dystopian hellscape marches on]

CDC gets list of forbidden words: Fetus, transgender...

what the fuck is this

HEY, I JUST WANNA TALK

diversity, fetus, science-based, evidence-based, vulnerable, transgender, entitlement

Word ban at CDC includes 'vulnerable,' 'fetus,' 'tra...

ANOTHER ARTICLE WHICH I APPRECIATE FOR THE MERE FACT IT OPENS WITH "Officials at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the very agency tasked with saving and protecting the lives of the most vulnerable, are now under order by the Trump administration to stop using words including "vulnerable" in 2018 budget documents"

although much of the rest of it is just a rehash of the washpost article

Twitter CDC director says nah

But also pretty dystopian that the request was made at all

"Here's a word that's still allowed," added Rush Holt, chief executive officer of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. "Ridiculous."

"I want to assure you that CDC remains committed to our public health mission as a science- and evidence-based institution." thank you Brenda Fitzgerald

I appreciate you.

this thread also sounds like reassurance that the actual information will not be stifled but the word choices themselves could still be worked around, rather than that the word ban is entirely bullshit and they're gonna ignore it

but it could go either way

Real talk when does someone do us a solid and reenact the war of 1812 and burn the white house down

目を閉じたらどう？ : my coworker was demanding to know where John Wilkes Boothe is, saying, and I quote, "we need him"

Yikes re: booth in specific but also yeah

.. I DONT EVEN UNDERSTAND WHAT THEY'RE TRYING TO ACCOMPLISH WITH THIS

you cant use science-based but you can still say it just like.in a wordier way

is trump bored? does he have a brain tumor

I think he's trying to cut out long words,

..... i see....

realistically the trend of "vulnerable" "entitlement" "science-based" and "evidence-based" is probably to delegitimize any arguments about, like, aid and also health care in general, so that it could be easier to cut budget in those areas since this is specifically about the budget

"transgender" is obvious but "fetus" is actually more baffling to me bc on its face it looks like an abortion thing but in that case why not just ban "abortion." banning "fetus" gets in the way of a lot of other topics... it would actually be equally or even more plausible as a base to attack maternity leave related worker's rights shit vs. abortion

unless I guess banning "abortion" would be ???to obvious??? but fetus isn't LESS obvious

i mean.. that makes sense to me in a twisted evil way but why not just ban science and evidence then why even allow for the loophole

why is he even allowed to do this BLATANT FUCKING ASSHOLE THING

They're banning "fetus" probably because they want to force people to talk about the fetus as an unborn baby

They're trying to force the terminology to something less clinical and fact-based to something that is emotionally and ideologically challenged. you'll notice in abortion and birth control discussions the right never refers to them as "fetuses" but "unborn babies"

It's like how they're trying to reclassify the moment of conception as the first moment of life etc. I imagine this is both to appease the ultra conservative right as well as to help advance the anti-abortion agenda

yeah i was gonna say probably to reinforce the word BABY BABY BABY

as for why not ban abortion.. I guess because they knew if they tried to force people to call it "baby killing" like they like, they need to still be able to define the thing they're fighting against. and if they can force you to say baby instead of fetus, they're forcing people to say "terminate the BABY" anyway so

dragillionaire : oh that's true

I didn't consider that thanks