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2024-11-11
This is... This is bad! Wow.
So much money wasted modifying all these documents.
For them, it's worth the cost for greater good.
Look at all this cancel culture….
Oh, it's not the onion.
What's the opposite of eating the onion? That happened to me just now too
Drinking the swamp
Hopeful thinking
Don't they know just because you've banned a word, doesn't mean that the item or thing automatically poofs out of existence?
This is that easy. There's a few words I'd love to ban. How about Elmo? And Turd
Wiping trans people from existence is easier for them to do when nobody is allowed to talk about them.
This is a 21st century version of book burning.
This is Project 2025 in action.
Unfortunately, this kind of control of language does work in the long term.
It makes it harder to pursue science when you cannot use the terns others in ypur field use.
This is pretty dumb even by trump standards. You would think the right of all people would know that trying to ban terms will just result in new euphemisms and jargon being created.
Most of the research caught up is probably going to be using the terms incidentally (for instance, a drug study that happens to mention participants were AMAB) and this will cause a bunch of paperwork and probably just end up being changed to something like "gametically" or "chromosomally".
Think even more general than that. Ignore identity/gender/sexuality issues for a moment. How do you write a research article about the negative effects of a drug on pregnancy without using the word pregnant? About complications during a "normal pregnancy"(I'm using their word, not mine - please don't take offense - I hope you see where I'm going)? If you can't mention gender or pregnancy, even when it's about cis people, you suddenly can't do a whole hell of a lot of research.
Oh you can say pregnant woman. Just not pregnant person.
You would think the right of all people would know that trying to ban terms will just result in new euphemisms and jargon being created.
The right thinks that if they clamp down hard enough that it will just go away, much like LGBTQ people were forced to mask and hide themselves like they had to back in the day, otherwise they ended up like Matthew Shepard. I don't know that they even consider the euphemism treadmill aspect of things, they just don't want these people to feel like they can be themselves and feel safe.
Literally speedrunning the Nazi handbook.
An attack on science is an attack on us all. They are trying to erase science they dont agree with. This is Christian fascism - welcome to giliad.
Anyone in the US please organise - join an anti religious influence group, protest, disobey. You must fight back.
Science doesn't need politics, politics needs science.
science needs politics to not be repressed, politics needs science for being effective and fair.
Science doesn't need politics to tell what is what, it's science who should be telling politics what is what. Ofcourse politics can block science, e.g. this article.
No it surely doesn't. Politics can exist with no new science.
It can, but it shouldn't.
I'm so fucking scared. They've inhibited our movement by fucking with passports, they've defined us as dishonest and dishonorable in the EO kick us out of the military, they've codified the notion that our gender identity constitutes sexual deviance and poses a threat to children, they've attacked proven life-saving care, with a focus on children and an impact on adults.
and now they're trying to book-burn us out of existence.
this is systematic dehumanization, the track record of which is grim.
There's just straight up not enough of us to do this on our own.
If people don't start standing up for us, we're fucked.
I'm so sorry. I can't imagine where your head is at right now.
Oh look...
The US is embedding a totalitarian theonomic government. A new, (soon to be) militarized, hierarchy regime of religious fanaticism and newly created social classes, in which DEI is being brutally subjugated.
I swear I've seen this show before...
Back up everything. Don't let it be memory-holed! Holy crap.
If you have the space for it, please consider helping re-host the Anna’s Archive backup.
Truth always is the first victim.