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CDC gets list of forbidden words: fetus, transgender, diversity
The Washington Post ^ | 12/15/2017 | Lena H. Sun

Posted on 12/15/2017 5:42:16 PM PST by Trump20162020

The Trump administration is prohibiting officials at the nation’s top public health agency from using a list of seven words or phrases — including “fetus” and “transgender” — in any official documents being prepared for next year’s budget.

Policy analysts at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in Atlanta were told of the list of forbidden words at a meeting Thursday with senior CDC officials who oversee the budget, according to an analyst who took part in the 90-minute briefing. The forbidden words are “vulnerable,” “entitlement,” “diversity,” “transgender,” “fetus,” “evidence-based” and “science-based.”

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Government; US: Georgia
KEYWORDS: cdc; donaldtrump; linguisticactivism; newqueerwords; trump; win; winning
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To: exDemMom

They call global warming evidence-based.


21 posted on 12/15/2017 6:28:05 PM PST by ilovesarah2012
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To: normbal

I had a friend that was an ER doctor in NYC for a number of years... he said to me; “ya know what we call a straight male with HIV? A liar.”


22 posted on 12/15/2017 6:38:31 PM PST by NativeSon ( Grease the floor with Crisco when I dance the Disco)
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To: ilovesarah2012

I despise the term “vulnerable”. It’s right up there with [insert grievence group] community- it translates to my money being blown on garbage.


23 posted on 12/15/2017 6:41:08 PM PST by NativeSon ( Grease the floor with Crisco when I dance the Disco)
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To: Dr. Pritchett

“Yeah, but... The left always demands control of the vocabulary...”

I’m guessing “terrorist”, “radical Islam” and “American” is back in?


24 posted on 12/15/2017 6:48:47 PM PST by EQAndyBuzz (We're CNN. We're not lying, we're just incompetent!)
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To: Lera

‘This nation doesn’t speak Latin’

qui postulat quod non loquemur Latine...?


25 posted on 12/15/2017 6:57:15 PM PST by IrishBrigade
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To: Trump20162020

From the article:

“...The forbidden words are “vulnerable,” “entitlement,” “diversity,” “transgender,” “fetus,” “evidence-based” and “science-based.” ...”

I’m glad to see those words gone !


26 posted on 12/15/2017 7:00:34 PM PST by WildHighlander57 ((WildHighlander57, returning after lurking since 2000)
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To: DesertRhino
Fetus has become a work around so they don’t have to use the word “baby”.

Oh,how foolish you are! Now,they won't use "fetus" and they won't use "baby".

It will be "parasitic tissue mass".

27 posted on 12/15/2017 7:05:52 PM PST by Gay State Conservative (Remember: All Cultures Are Equal!)
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To: 198ml
But what’s up w/ “transgender,”

There isn't such a thing.

28 posted on 12/15/2017 7:06:19 PM PST by ROCKLOBSTER (RATs, RINOs...same thing)
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To: IrishBrigade

Smarty - braccas


29 posted on 12/15/2017 7:10:50 PM PST by Lera (1 Corinthians 15:1-4)
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To: DesertRhino

...This is a win. Fetus has become a work around so they don’t have to use the word “baby.”

Abortion of a “fetus” is still murder


30 posted on 12/15/2017 7:27:25 PM PST by Sasparilla ( I'm Not Tired of Winning.)
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To: DesertRhino

...This is a win. Fetus has become a work around so they don’t have to use the word “baby.”

Abortion of a “fetus” is still murder


31 posted on 12/15/2017 7:27:26 PM PST by Sasparilla ( I'm Not Tired of Winning.)
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To: DesertRhino

...This is a win. Fetus has become a work around so they don’t have to use the word “baby.”

Abortion of a “fetus” is still murder


32 posted on 12/15/2017 7:27:27 PM PST by Sasparilla ( I'm Not Tired of Winning.)
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To: Trump20162020

I’d rather take George Carlin’s seven words....


33 posted on 12/15/2017 7:42:57 PM PST by lightman (ANTIFA is full of Bolshevik.)
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To: Trump20162020
A win!

For those of you who are ignorant about the damage done by linguistic activism over the past 40 years, do some study to find out what the old terms were and the difference between those and contemporary terms devised for brainwashing you.



34 posted on 12/15/2017 7:46:33 PM PST by familyop ("Welcome to Costco. I love you." --Costco greeter in the movie, "Idiocracy")
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To: 198ml

There are only two human sexes: male and female, man and woman.

The idea of erroneously applying genders to human beings was only for the purpose of trying to legitimize unhealthy practices and relationships in the minds of the misled and confused. Genders were intended for plants (flowers, for example) and Latin language words.

The compound words staged for further linguistic activism, “evidence-based” and “science-based,” have been used in subjective reports and guides as rhetoric to avoid presenting evidence. Everything in a paper or guide in regards to health should be logical, properly cited where needed and without undue political implications against other properly researched and written reports.


35 posted on 12/15/2017 8:06:54 PM PST by familyop ("Welcome to Costco. I love you." --Costco greeter in the movie, "Idiocracy")
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To: unlearner
"anal intercourse is harmful and unhealthy"
...sounds about as romantic as a colonoscopy!
36 posted on 12/15/2017 8:28:59 PM PST by LYDIAONTARIO
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To: Trump20162020

Big win IMHO. Who knew Trump would do this? Let’s see the next R (future) administration explain their backpedaling.

Trump is exposing the uniparty scum, a secondary benefit.


37 posted on 12/15/2017 9:15:09 PM PST by SecAmndmt (Arm yourselves!)
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To: Trump20162020

I’m usually against 1984-style restrictions on the words we can use. But “evidence-based” always makes me cringe. It is almost always used to describe a social science solution that never cites anything that I would consider solid evidence. And on what basis did we take action before we had “evidence-based” analysis?


38 posted on 12/15/2017 9:53:42 PM PST by csn vinnie
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To: al baby

What you said, al fetus, err... I mean al baby!


39 posted on 12/15/2017 10:09:47 PM PST by Right Brother
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To: 198ml
But what’s up w/ “transgender,” “evidence-based” and “science-based”?

Thanks for participating, but if you have to ask, no explanation us possible...

Some words have morphed from fact based words to useless opinion-or made-up words. They are NOT synonymous.

40 posted on 12/15/2017 10:20:31 PM PST by publius911 (CBS: "Asking the right questions is 100% of catching sexual abusers")
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