Summary
FDA scientists have been instructed to avoid using words like “woman,” “disabled,” and “elderly” in external communications, per a leaked list circulating within the agency.
The directive, reportedly linked to Trump’s executive order against “gender ideology,” has caused confusion and concern.
The White House denies most words are banned but confirms restrictions on terms related to gender and diversity.
Scientists fear these limits will hinder medical research and public health efforts.
The only allowed words are “straight”, “white”, “Christian” and “man”.
Hey you know who else made a list of banned words?
Hitler.
Hitler made a list of band words.
No one that has ever banned an education have ever been the good guys.
Wait, so we can use Talking Rib and Cripple instead?
My friend is a proposal manager for a non-profit. She had to advise some of her scientists to use ‘non-man person’ for a proposal for a grant to study breast cancer. I wish I were joking
How this continues to be ok with Americans is beyond me. Change stops on an individual level. Your friend should have called bullshit then and there and refuse to use non-man person. Over 50% of the goddamn population is a non-man person.
Distractions. There are a lot of them and most of us are replying to the distractions with emotional messages and Hitler/nazi-musk memes instead of doing our due diligence to find out what’s going on and how we can stop it. The memes, they do nothing but give us the sense of camaraderie without direction or objective. And any time you tell the people making them that, they get mad and block you or downvote you.
I propose dividing people into penised people and penisless people. I’m sure vagina is banned too but I can’t remember
Once again, those 7 million or so asshats that didn’t vote for Kamala because of ‘GeNoCiDe JoE’, this is on you.
But not the 75 million fascists
Them too. Both are equally to blame.
When you keep having to vote for the lesser evil for so long, you get Trump.
Democrats were a lesser evil and that wasn’t enough.
Imagine your house is on fire. You know you can put it out. You just have to get the right tools. Along come the democrats.
They promise you left and right that if you can make just one more donation they will help you put out the fire. You accept. They take your money and tell you that there is nothing that they can do to help you even though they have all the means and capabilities to do so. They got firetrucks around the corner and helicopter based water hoses. They even have a genie that could magically put out your fire and rebuild your house that would cost them nothing to disperse. The parliamentarian says there is no room in the budget for putting out fires even though it would cost nothing.
They tell you it’s your neighbors fault who’s house is also on fire. They say, “well if he had donated to us then we could have helped him like we are helping you.” As the fire grows and consumes the whole structure Kamala Harris arrives to recount the single mother story for all the people suffering from burning houses.
They ask her what this has to do with their houses being on fire and she cuts them off - “I am speaking.” She is booed by the people who have become restless because their houses have become ash.
“Don’t worry people, I know how to solve your problems” as she pulls out a big check. “How much do you think it’ll cost to rebuild your houses?”
The estimate it will take about $10 billion.
“Alright then how about $100 billion?” She offers. She also hands them each a $100 bill so they they can get groceries for the week.
The residents rejoice. They can’t believe it. They are saved or so they think. When they finally get the money they are confused. She must have made a mistake
The $100 for groceries were given to them directly while the check is made out to Israel.
"Do you condemn Hamas?’ Harris asks as she grabs Liz Cheney and a blowtorch.
Every time you vote blue or red a small country in the middle east gets more of your tax dollars. Stop the madness.
As a country we were given the choice between letting one house burn vs letting the entire city burn, and instead of making a helpful choice a group of people decided to protest fire, and yet more decided to just sit at home while the world burned around them.
They knew what the choices were. Trump flat out said he didn’t care about the constitution, didn’t care about human life, and didn’t care about democracy.
Maybe even better, when they were given a choice between a house or the whole village on fire, some people were like “yeah a flood will stop all this so I’m gunna just bank on one coming” even though there hasn’t been any significant rain in a long whole.
In fairness, they did get at least a little flooding when that one dam was ordered to purge a not insignificant amount of water.
That’s a lot of words to say “I don’t understand politics and only care about one single issue”
An idiot fills the room with words.
I will continue to say “perfect must not be the enemy of good”.
These asshats wanted perfect without understanding the complexity behind getting perfect. Good change does not happen overnight. It happens slowly over multiple smaller good changes.
Some women voted to be enslaved. This says a lot about our society and where we should work on.
You have seen them wear I want to be grabbed by the pussy shirts? Words have become meaningless to them.
Nobody realizes that all of these outrageous headlines, quotes and ideas of Trump are just distractions from his actual agenda. He’s intentionally flooding the media with this kind of stuff.
This headline in particular is completely irrelevant in the grand sceme of things. So is most other things. Like him saying he’s going to own Gaza. Was never going to happen. It’s just a distraction and everyone is falling for it again and again.
I learned to ignore most of what Trump is doing and only pay attention to the important stuff that usually ranks second in the news behind this kind of stuff.
Such as?
Increasing the power of the executive branch in line with Unitary Executive Theory and following the Project 2025 playbook through Elon to gut social services across the board. He will be the dictator of the country when they’re done, with no regulatory agency power to stop the full fascist takeover.
All the money they saved by cutting these essential programs that literally keep people alive (in the US and around the world) and from homelessness will be sent to the rich through tax cuts. It’s all very obvious, but since they’re hurting nonwhite people the most, hardly anyone who voted for him sees what’s happened.
I mean I feel like we’re paying attention to that too? I mean we can read more than one kind of article in a day. Everything you said seems pretty well understood to me
Sure, we understand it. We’re getting non-algorithmic news that isn’t covered in sports or celebrity bullshit. The average American, I assure you, doesn’t know anything about this stuff. Most of the people I talk to in regular life about this stuff haven’t even heard of project 2025. Did you see how many people googled “did Biden drop out?” on election day?
The average person is poorly informed and dumbass stuff like -Red White And Blueland- or -turn Gaza into the Riviera of the middle east- are what they hear about, if even that. These, while horrifying, are the distractions to the real game of dictatorship and wealth transfer to the richest of the rich.
Whether you call it “flood the zone” or “firehose of bullshit” it’s what they’re doing and it’s working very well.
I assume “raping women” and “making fun of the disabled” are still ok. Fascist fuck.
almost as if terfism and gender criticism is just thinly veiled misogyny and women hating politics
“Am I out of touch?” The irony was lost on TERFs ever since they were applauded by anti-abortion christian and white nationalists and nazis, and they still went “No, it is the trans that are profoundly misogynist”.
I still can’t understand how people have been able to elect this guy…
Sorry but just because this mentions FDA this has nothing to do with science. This is an article about politics and bigotry. Real science is happening elsewhere and it’s unfortunate it probably won’t come from the US.
We could say that science is under attack (see following sources). In this case, it belongs.
- Exclusive: how NSF is scouring research grants for violations of Trump’s orders
- Ax falls on elite group of Ph.D.s training to lead U.S. public health labs
- CDC ordered to remove research papers that use the terms “LGBT,” “pregnant people” and more
- The Attacks on Science
- Those of us who work in gender medicine are not going anywhere
- My daughter is publishing another academic paper and has to run a filter to ensure there are no “controversial” words. It is an applied physics paper dealing with novel quantum matter.
Can we agree that:- Science is under attack.
- Weaponized cisgenderism is science denialism at this point.
- Free speech absolutism is a trope to suppress all freedom except for white supremacist rhetoric.
- The attacks are not limited to trans but also cis women, including cis women scientists.
- Trans rights stem from a complex set of fundamental freedoms, and opposing them is profoundly fascist.
If anyone does not agree, ex post facto, with the above points is a literal nazi apologist at this point, and can go debate if FElon’s salute was nazi or not. I don’t have the time of day for this though.Can we further agree that scientists must be in the social and ideological avant-garde and opposing fascism, like Einstein did?
Then we see at a time that science is under attack, in the context of a petrifying fascist power grab from anti-vax charlatans, and in the name of science innocent people are vilified and persecuted, that the relevance of these developments ought to be front and center to all science-related communities, much like this once were:
Because this more or less shows the fossil fuel interests that are behind all this.Well let’s just say I’d have rather been in the control of the American Experiment.
“What is a [REDACTED]?”
“A miserable pile of [REDACTED]!”
So the Trump Bible should be changed to Adam and Adam.
bro is getting insecure about his age
I can’t wait until a stroke puts him in a wheelchair and he has to eat McDonalds through a straw.
Better if the stroke puts him 6ft under.
How are they supposed to refer to a woman then? woMAN?
Preferably, they won’t. At all. “Non-male person” at best.
Presumably “femoids” or some other 4chan coinage.
They aren’t.
Anyone other than no disabled cis hetero white males is irrelevant.
Unman
Oh that explains the plane binary…
I guess “Females”
Also banned it seems. Another source.
I’m pretty sure the lists I’ve seen circulating also ban the word female… which is so bizarre
“Wives” I guess since that seems to be the only position that these people value.
