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In our recently submitted grants we had to change “traumatic brain injury” to “concussive brain injury” and “male and female mice” to “male and non-male mice” because traumatic and female are now verboten words that can get our grants killed. It’s insanity.
cool to read that you lot use “verboten” as a legit word
Twenty years ago I was sitting in a city council meeting in middle Statesia where the city engineer was giving an estimate of traffic at an intersection. He described a liberal estimate (in this case the higher estimate) but led them that if he called it a liberal estimate they’d ignore it, so he was redefining conservative estimate to mean the opposite of what it does for all of his estimates just so they wouldn’t dismiss them out of hand. And it worked, the dumbfucks on the city council liked the numbers just because he called them conservative.
Wow they didn’t need to take the George all real concept of double speak so far
Instead of “Leftwing” and “Rightwing”, we should just use “Alpha” and “Beta” respectively, just like they wanted. 🤭
A healthy, broadly educated population, which feels safe and secure, are incompatible with, and toxic to, conservative and authoritarian ideologies.
They need you to be sick, stupid, and scared.
Had to change the wording in my grants from “biodiversity” to “biological variety”. I work in conservation. This is indeed insanity.
and you cant say global warming is attributed to human related causes, must be something abstract like cosmic raditation.
Ironically enough, if they used German words for such, it might just pass the Turd Reich censors. 🤷🏼♂️
list of banned words btw
Activism, activists, advocacy, advocate, enhancing diversity, equal opportunity, equality, equitable, advocates, equity, ethnicity, barrier, barriers, biased, biased toward, biases, biases towards, BIPOC, Black and Latinx, excluded, female, females, fostering inclusivity, gender, gender diversity, genders, hate speech, Hispanic minority, community diversity, community equity, cultural differences, cultural heritage, historically, implicit bias, culturally responsive, implicit biases, disabilities, inclusion, disability, discriminated, discrimination, inclusive, minorities, minority, multicultural, polarization, political, prejudice, privileges, promoting diversity, race and ethnicity, racial, racial diversity, racial inequality, racial justice, racially, racism, sense of belonging, sexual preferences, social justice, sociocultural, socioeconomic status, stereotypes, systemic, inclusiveness, discriminatory, diverse backgrounds, inclusivity, increase diversity, increase the diversity, trauma, underappreciated, diverse communities, Indigenous community, underrepresented, diverse community, diverse group, inequalities, inequality, underserved, diverse groups, inequitable, diversified, inequities, diversify, diversifying, diversity and inclusion, diversity equity, institutional, LGBT, marginalize, marginalized, underrepresentation, underrepresented, underserved, undervalued, victim, women, underrepresented.
What is the source for this list? What things does this ban apply to?
Many of those words are included on this USDA list of banned words from late March. The list also includes many more.
https://eelp.law.harvard.edu/tracker/usda-leaked-memo-bans-110-terms-from-agreements/
There is an overlap with this New York Times Article ( archive )
It seems a list compiled by observing the words in repealed grants
Noam Ross, a computational researcher part of Grant Watch, told The Chronicle that Grant Watch doesn’t know exactly how grants are flagged for termination, but “suspect that these words are part of a search process for selecting them based on [The New York Times article] and other reporting.”
At least you know what they are
Tell me this: if you were watching a movie and men in black masks were taking people off the street and sending them off, never to be seen again, and those same men were separating children from parents forcibly and locking them all in cages/compounds for months on end…
Would those people in this hypothetical movie, strike you as “good” guys, or “bad” guys?
Because that’s what’s happening, in real life, in the USA, right now.
Cue the “are we the baddies?” meme.
It’s not that meme, they will never have that moment of revelation because they enjoy what they are doing, and signed up for the chance to hurt others
Humanity contains monsters and we need to stop pretending it doesn’t
So…it…it was the conservatives that were snowflakes all along?
I did Nazi that coming.
I think you did
leave the us then. drain your brain off to somewhere that doesnt hate you.
Who cares about those grants as long as the clown school grants are still there and our supreme clown are still in power! Glory to Americlown!! 🦅 🤡
Well that’s doubleplus ungood.
When I was a teenager around my daughter’s age, pre 9/11, this kind of future was the kind of thing you would see in a ridiculous 80s dystopian action movie. We didn’t ever think we’d actually ever allow it to get that far as a society, surely we wild rise up to oppose. It’s just wild to my old ass how far we have fallen and how much people just shrug.
I was watching the Netflix hunt for Osama docuseries. And Bin Laden totally won. After 9/11 the US turned on its own people and used the modern technology of the military to set up a mass surveillance system and a way to easily do shit like this. And people allowed it while chanting “USA!” This is all part of it.
On a side note, i can’t wait till The Running Man becomes Reality once Trump starts throwing migrants into a life or death reality show where they’re hunted by neo Nazi ice agents
I just want you to know that I have been shouting from the rooftops this exact thing since the Patriot Act was signed into law
And it was people like YOU that shouted me into silence
Fuck you and everyone like you, your revelation came too late and you will never be forgiven for what you did to the messengers
I’m just some indigenous dude watching you guys destroy yourselves
Well considering they’re already denaturalizing citizens how long before the admin targets you?
Also, my great grandmother was Oglala Lakota and I would have been too if some dumbfuck colonizer hadn’t kidnapped her as a kid and erased her culture, so thanks for the all inclusive ‘you’, asshole.
And Bin Laden totally won.
I’ve been pointing this out for about ten years now and it’s one of the most unpopular comments I can make, but it only gets more true every year. I’ve watched police get more authoritarian for decades now and there doesn’t seem to be anything curtailing it.
100%. He played the long game and boy, it’s a crushing victory
Most powerful nation in the history of mankind and we folded like a cheap suit after some planes flew into some buildings.
It’s important to note that a significant cause of our downfall is due to traitors within, including propaganda networks, that took advantage of that incident.
And I was in high school when 9/11 happened too. Watching this all happen in real time has been a pretty sad affair. I don’t have much faith left in this nation, nor do I have much patriotism left. I just don’t think we’ve earned a continued democracy. We aren’t up to the challenge.
The entire rest of the world could always see how proud you were of your “great democracy” and how fragile and inflated it actually was. Took you all a long time to finally to see it too.
It wasn’t fragile, it took half our politicians to choose fascism and 40+ years of groundwork
Billionaires bent their wealth to ensure this
No nation could survive such bullshittery. Ours certainly won’t.
I’ve been thinking there’s possibly a future in which history books (written outside the western sphere) that draw a continuation from nazi Germany to imperial America. As opposed to nazi Germany being the bad guys who were defeated by the allied forces.
Some might say they didn’t fold. They were never the good guys. It’s been good those of us who have been living within their sphere of influence. They have been a ruthless empire that is stepping up to the next level of brutality.
They got all the best weapons though.
