Posted on 08/29/2021 12:43:11 AM PDT by knighthawk
A new guide on 'inclusive communication' by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to promote 'health equity' has published a long list of words and phrases such as elderly, smokers and poor for les 'dehumanizing' language.
The guide includes a list of guiding principles and preferred terms to use rather than seemingly dehumanizing ones such as 'poor' and 'elderly' to foster 'an ongoing shift toward non-stigmatizing language.'
'Long-standing systemic social and health inequities ... have put some population groups at increased risk of getting sick, having overall poor health, and having worse outcomes when they do get sick,' the guide reads.
(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...
This communist Marxist agency has no place in dictating words used like this.
The entire government is severely compromised and corrupted by the the woke ideology. Only a thorough flushing of these woke turds will restore some semblance of normality to the US government.
and robbery is a financial exchange and rape is a social engagement...
This is my pig, I call her princess.
The very fact that the CDC would publish this, and employ someone to write it, tells me that the CDC is hopelessly politicized. That in turn means that they aren’t just a professional health organization; instead they are a political appendage of the government, at least in part.
Everything they say must now be evaluated for as a political manipulation before being evaluated as a statement of best practices on health or medicine. A very sad state of affairs.
already being used in health care/health plan companies, all woke all the time
I AM ELDERLY-—
And—I earned every single minute of it!!!!!!
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