"The Trump administration is prohibiting 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."
The Washington Post, 12/15/17
These words should DEFINITELY, continue to be a regular part of our vocabulary in 2018!
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Language has incredible power to change minds and reframe the debate on issues. It is the number one tool of the propagandist, and is used by the right wing far more effectively than the left uses it. Call global warming climate change and you succeed in creating doubt, call inheritance taxes death tax you change the debate, call a rebel an insurgent you change the view of the listener on them, or you can just eliminate the words all together from the strongest evidence based group to neuter their power.
HeathenFarmer
Level 8
Dec 16, 2017
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A list needs to be made for words Trump can't use. Let me think.....
- Fake news
- Lies
- ?
- ?
Thats harder than I thought it would be, since he always talks in the 3rd person and like a fucking 6 year old. His administration is nothing but puppets.
Deedreaming
Level 5
Dec 16, 2017
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It's a Hitler and a Stalin move, control thought ,media,government.and science. Censorship,just like Soviet putz ,Putin controls what's said of him and his administration
RavenWolf425
Level 5
Dec 16, 2017
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my desire to be well informed is at odds with my desire to remain sane. OMFG, I have started to believe in Hell recently, it started when Der Traump got elected.
HippieChick58
Level 9
Dec 16, 2017
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This is the continuation of a Fascist trend with tRUMP as the piece of s---t in charge. We recently were reported for bad language. What happened to Free Speech people?
sassygirl3869
Level 9
Dec 16, 2017
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Someone complained about swearing on another post.
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