Posted on 02/24/2025 3:43:07 PM PST by nickcarraway
Some U.S. Food and Drug Administration scientists have been told to stop using the words "woman," "disabled" and "elderly" in external communications, two sources familiar with the matter said, part of a list of banned terms that a White House spokesman said had misinterpreted President Donald Trump's executive order. A list with the file name "Prohibited words" has been circulating since at least last week in official work chats, according to two FDA scientists with direct knowledge of the matter who requested anonymity for fear of professional repercussions.
The list, which has not been previously reported, is sowing further confusion at an agency struggling with the Trump administration's sweeping firings. The two scientists said that neither they nor their managers knew who issued the directive or why many of the more than two dozen words were included. "I don't understand why we can't use a word like 'woman,'" one FDA source who received the list told Reuters. "The words on the list would make it almost impossible to do our jobs."
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That’s what I am thinking.
Likely it was a list created by Biden sycophants in the department to so discord and create a resistance.
They are trying to embarrass the administration.
Sounds like the Tuskegee Airmen thing from a few weeks ago.
You need to find these people and kick them out ASAP, and expose them for all to see.
It sounds as if federal employees are doing a lot of “malicious compliance” to deliberately misinterpret policy directives from higher up.
It’s like being told to reduce your workforce numbers and firing the guy with the keys to the building.
Malicious compliance. Track down who created the list and fire them.
More malicious compliance, at hand.
Can you explain about the Tuskegee Airman issue?
I was very sick and must have missed it!
Thanks so much!
Very kind of you!
Malicious enforcement?
As a disabled, elderly woman, that pretty much wipes me out.
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