Trump administration forbids CDC officials from using 7 words and phrases
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[quote]Trump administration officials are forbidding officials at the nation's top public health agency from using a list of seven words or phrases - including "fetus" and "transgender" - in any official documents being prepared for next year's budget.
Policy analysts at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in Atlanta were told of the list of forbidden words at a meeting Thursday with senior CDC officials who oversee the budget, according to an analyst who took part in the 90-minute briefing. The forbidden words are: "vulnerable," "entitlement," "diversity," "transgender," "fetus," "evidence-based" and "science-based."
In some instances, the analysts were given alternative phrases. Instead of "science-based" or "evidence-based," the suggested phrase is "CDC bases its recommendations on science in consideration with community standards and wishes," the person said. In other cases, no replacement words were immediately offered.[/quote]
[url=http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/nationworld/politics/ct-cdc-forbidden-words-20171215-story.html]Chicago Tribune[/url]
Jesus christ, what the hell is with this administration
So in other words: "Make your reports harder for people to read and properly interpret for no good reason other than to make them seem less credible and enable people to decide not to read them."
1984 comparisons are usually overused but this is a situation that fits pretty damn clearly
Feels over reals
Please democrats win the presidency for at least four terms, trump's and his people's actions I hope have made it near impossible for a gop candidate to win. Clinton got three million more votes than trump, a candidate
that people want to vote for will absolutely beat trump and other candidates.
Can Mueller hurry the fuck up already.
[QUOTE=TheBorealis;52981301]Please democrats win the presidency for at least four terms, trump's and his people's actions I hope have made it near impossible for a gop candidate to win. Clinton got three million more votes than trump, a candidate
that people want to vote for will absolutely beat trump and other candidates.[/QUOTE]
Never underestimate the DNC's ability to completely fuck up an easy victory.
Have they even come up with a platform yet? Something more tangible than "VOTE FOR US WE'RE NOT TRUMP"?
They are literally banned from using 'science-based' and 'evidence-based'
Take a second. Think back to a year ago
When the Trump presidency started, a ton of people who predicted things of this [B]exact[/B] nature would happen got told to "stop whining", "stop treating it as the end of the world", "stop blowing things out of proportion"
Here's the result of all that holier-than-thou contrarianism. It might not look like it, but this outrageous shit has been normalized (not completely, but still way more than it ever should). It'll be painted as a just another day under Trump even though it already beats a lot of people's worst-case scenarios for his presidency
They should just misspell the words
And what happens if the CDC protests it by using these words anyway?
[QUOTE=Dr.C;52981407]They should just misspell the words[/QUOTE]
"vulneroble," "entittiement," "divuniversity," "transgander," "feetuss," "providence-based" and "science-bassed."
It'd read like a GOP sponsored spellcheck :v:
They didn't ban "faetus"
[QUOTE=Dr.C;52981407]They should just misspell the words[/QUOTE]
Hell, even the replacement suggestion basically says "switch science-based to based... on science".
Simple synonyms could do the trick.
They could just do
"susceptible"
"prerogative"
"variety"
"trans"
"pre-babby"
"based on evidence"
"based on science"
[QUOTE=Geikkamir;52981421]They didn't ban "faetus"[/QUOTE]
Or [url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f_h8nLLzRVE]foetus[/url] either!
[QUOTE=Quark:;52981416]"vulneroble," "entittiement," "divuniversity," "transgander," "feetuss," "providence-based" and "science-bassed."
It'd read like a GOP sponsored spellcheck :v:[/QUOTE]
I propose we deploy a lisp then. "Thience bathed" and "Ethidence bathed"
This seems like Trump is imposing regulations on the CDC.
Not that it matters, pointing out hypocrisy doesn't matter because they don't give a shit.
Pig Latin, do it.
Make the White House issue a statement banning the CDC from using "iversity-day" because they're so desperate to keep an echo chamber going.
We China now. (Mud-Grass Horse, anyone?)
[QUOTE=Geikkamir;52981421]They didn't ban "faetus"[/QUOTE]
Or Norman Reedus
Other words considered for a later ban:
-Enlightenment
-Progress
-Equality
-Interracial
-Truth
-Renewable
I'd like to hear Trump supporters defend this with valid reasoning.
Holy fuck, this is literally Animal Farm.
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Life is about to get very, very strange.
Interesting news from the Administration of the POTUS that likes to [B]"tell it like it is"[/B], huh?
[QUOTE=BlindSniper17;52981532]Interesting news from the Administration of the POTUS that likes to [B]"tell it like it is"[/B], huh?[/QUOTE]
Well, you see, that always gets misinterpreted. It's not the POTUS that 'tells it like it is', it's the POTUS that '[B][U]tells it[/U][/B] like [B][U]it is[/U][/B]' with accompanying flaming eyes and knives being drawn by the secret service as you consider your response.
Misspelling things would just be plain unprofessional.
They should release it in Spanish!
Because this is totally what rational adults do
[QUOTE=Dave_Parker;52982036]"Trump admin bans buzzwords"
You'll note that "science" or "evidence" are not banned. Adding "-based" behind them gives too much leeway. Like when your horror movie of choice starts with a card that says "Based on a true story".
The only ones that don't belong on the list are "fetus" and "transgender".[/QUOTE]
How the hell is "science-based" a buzzword? How is basing your conclusions on grounded science equal to films that say something's "based on a true story"? Science is a [I]process[/I]. You can't say that your conclusions [I]are[/I] science, because science is a method of arriving at a conclusion, not the conclusion itself. Science is a method, not a body of knowledge.
[QUOTE=Dave_Parker;52982036]"Trump admin bans buzzwords"
You'll note that "science" or "evidence" are not banned. Adding "-based" behind them gives too much leeway. Like when your horror movie of choice starts with a card that says "Based on a true story".
The only ones that don't belong on the list are "fetus" and "transgender".[/QUOTE]
You realize you're defending the censorship of common every day dictionary words. These are not buzzwords, I don't even understand these can even be considered such, with perhaps the exception of "evidence-based".
[QUOTE=Dave_Parker;52982036]"Trump admin bans buzzwords"
You'll note that "science" or "evidence" are not banned. Adding "-based" behind them gives too much leeway. Like when your horror movie of choice starts with a card that says "Based on a true story".
The only ones that don't belong on the list are "fetus" and "transgender".[/QUOTE]
fucking "vulnerable" is a buzzword now?
[QUOTE=Zukriuchen;52982053]fucking "vulnerable" is a buzzword now?[/QUOTE]
The CDC is literally banned from issuing public safety warnings that reference "vulnerable areas" for an infectious disease. They can't talk about how the elderly and children may be more vulnerable to a bacterial infection in a local city's water and plumbing network.
I mean, sure, they can use synonyms, but still, what the fuck. Banning our national response organization to control infectious diseases from discussing [I]vulnerability[/I]? That's like banning the EPA from using the term "climate" - oh wait, [URL="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2017/aug/07/usda-climate-change-language-censorship-emails"]they already fucking did that. [/URL]
State censorship to promote the illusion of scientific consensus. This is fascistic, anti-intellectual, and deeply unconstitutional. I hope these orders are challenged in court, because the government has no right to prohibit this kind of speech. There is zero compelling state interest to prohibit use of the word "vulnerable" in the CDC. This is unjustifiable state censorship of free speech rights, and the judiciary needs to set a precedent that these kinds of "word bans" are flagrant violations of the Constitution. Hope a CDC employee is fired for ignoring this order and sues.
literally attempting to erase transgender people's existance - I can think of another country where they burned all books relating to transgenderism and queer theory before something else happened to them
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