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The List of Trump's Forbidden Words That Will Get Your Paper Flagged at NSF (gizmodo.com)

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[–] [email protected] 38 points 8 hours ago (1 children)

Trump and his fellow fascists use terms like DEI to describe anything they don’t like, which means that the word “women” is on the forbidden list while “men” doesn’t initiate a review.

Straight white men are seen through the MAGA worldview as the default human and thus wouldn’t be suspicious and in need of a review. Any other type of identity is inherently suspect.

It’s still not clear what happens on the other side of all this. But when they’re flagging words like “women” and “trauma,” less than three weeks in, it can’t be good.

[–] [email protected] 28 points 8 hours ago (2 children)

They're flagging words that have scientific applications that have nothing to do with anything divisive but are also used with things they find divisive. You can't use "barrier" or "historically" or fucking "polarization."

[–] [email protected] 9 points 7 hours ago

Ironically, my primary area of study was Marxist theory with an emphasis on bureaucracy, and those words aren’t on the list. But once again, STEM gets all the attention.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 8 hours ago (1 children)

Talking about REMOVING BIAS from your scientific study? How DARE you.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 7 hours ago* (last edited 7 hours ago) (1 children)

Please explain what is biased about the three words I just listed. What are they biased against, cells, time and magnetism?

[–] [email protected] 6 points 5 hours ago* (last edited 5 hours ago) (1 children)

Bias is a banned word, thats what they were pointing out.

Edit: In specific

biased
biased toward
biases
biases towards

[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

Oh, I see. Thank you.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

Considering the down votes they got, I don't think you were the only person to take what they said differently, the conservatives out there are really fucking up even basic communication with this crap.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 hours ago

Very much so.