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Trump bans CDC from using words like 'transgender,' 'diversity,' and 'entitlement'
American Thinker ^ | 12/16/2017

Posted on 12/16/2017 6:31:17 AM PST by Altura Ct.

George Orwell would have been the first to admit that by controlling language you can control people's attitudes. The government has been doing that for years with code phrases like "Abortion" (also known as ending the life of a baby) and "Earned Income Tax Credit" (also known as welfare).

But now liberals are getting upset that President Trump is ripping several pages from their new-speak lexicon. 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.”

....“certain words” in the CDC’s budget drafts were being sent back to the agency for correction. Three words that had been flagged in these drafts were “vulnerable,” “entitlement” and “diversity.” Let's look at these words one at a time.

..."Diversity": Diversity is a code word for ethnic cleansing of heterosexual, white men. The opposite of "diversity" - "gentrification" - is considered a bad thing, because while "diverse" ethnic cleansing is considered positive, the opposite, putting too much cream in the coffee, so to speak, is not. What can replace "diversity"? How about "banishment of white men"? It's wordy, but again, it's accurate.

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TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society
KEYWORDS: cdc; cdcwords; diversity; homosexualagenda; politicallycorrect; trumpcdc; wordban
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1 posted on 12/16/2017 6:31:17 AM PST by Altura Ct.
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To: Altura Ct.

What exactly does “CDC bases its recommendations on science in consideration with community standards and wishes” mean anyway?


2 posted on 12/16/2017 6:35:12 AM PST by DoodleDawg
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To: Altura Ct.

Didn’t the great 0 have words the government could not use, like “muslim terrorist”, etc.?


3 posted on 12/16/2017 6:37:00 AM PST by jeffc (The U.S. media are our enemy)
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To: Altura Ct.

“Fetus”: This one confuses me. Liberals actually want to deny the existence of fetuses, so I am not sure what trouble Trump has with this word.”

from dictionary —

fetus: an unborn offspring of a mammal, in particular an unborn human baby more than eight weeks after conception.

May be objectionable because it groups, and dismisses, a human embryo in same class with animals.


4 posted on 12/16/2017 6:37:03 AM PST by odawg
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To: Altura Ct.

My all time favorite:

“Individual Shared Responsibility Payment” (aka “tax”)


5 posted on 12/16/2017 6:37:25 AM PST by Fresh Wind (Hillary: Go to jail. Go directly to jail. Do not pass GO. Do not collect 2 billion dollars.)
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To: Altura Ct.

If they can’t say “transgender,” what word are they going to use to refer to people who believe they are the opposite sex, present themselves as the opposite sex, or undergo medical interventions to appear more like the opposite sex?


6 posted on 12/16/2017 6:39:52 AM PST by Tax-chick ("It's not like a productive member of society would have been lost." ~ PAR35)
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To: Altura Ct.
Diversity is a code word for ethnic cleansing of heterosexual, white men.

Indeed and it is past time that officials and whites start addressing it as such.

7 posted on 12/16/2017 6:40:16 AM PST by Altura Ct.
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“Fetus”: This one confuses me.

No need for confusion. It is better to say a "woman is with child" rather than "the non-gender it is growing a fetus inside of it".

A child is a human.

8 posted on 12/16/2017 6:41:20 AM PST by Sirius Lee (In God We Trust, In Trump We Fix America)
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To: DoodleDawg

>>What exactly does “CDC bases its recommendations on science in consideration with community standards and wishes” mean anyway?<<

“The CDC is a 100% liberal political organization and bases its recommendations accordingly”


9 posted on 12/16/2017 6:41:37 AM PST by freedumb2003 (Conservatives should do daily affirmations: reading/repeating the 9th and 10th Amendments)
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To: Altura Ct.

I love this move. Needs to happen in every PC agency.


10 posted on 12/16/2017 6:43:20 AM PST by GnuThere
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To: freedumb2003; DoodleDawg

“When science disagrees with leftist ideology, we go with the leftist ideology.”


11 posted on 12/16/2017 6:45:57 AM PST by Tax-chick ("It's not like a productive member of society would have been lost." ~ PAR35)
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>>If they can’t say “transgender,” what word are they going to use to refer to people who believe they are the opposite sex, present themselves as the opposite sex, or undergo medical interventions to appear more like the opposite sex?

Psychotic.


12 posted on 12/16/2017 6:47:02 AM PST by HLPhat ("TO SECURE THESE RIGHTS" -- Government with any other purpose is not American.)
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To: HLPhat

That’s not specific to the case. It’s no use saying “crazy” or “mentally ill” if you want to refer specifically to depression, rather than schizophrenia, for example.


13 posted on 12/16/2017 6:49:00 AM PST by Tax-chick ("It's not like a productive member of society would have been lost." ~ PAR35)
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“Genital mutilation”
“Eunuch”
“Male”/”Female” (regardless of damage done to defining organs)


14 posted on 12/16/2017 6:57:15 AM PST by ctdonath2 (It's not "white privilege", it's "Puritan work ethic". Behavior begets consequences.)
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To: odawg

It’s because the pro-abortion crowd has changed the definition of the word fetus. Reasonable people know it means baby, and in most contexts, the live human baby who is yet unborn. The abortion crowd has changed it to mean unviable blob of pre-human tissue or some such nonsense.

By banning the word in official government texts, the Trump Administration is forcing a return to true word usage and away from obfuscation. Same with the rest of them.


15 posted on 12/16/2017 6:57:43 AM PST by cyclotic (Trump tweets are the only news source you can trust.)
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To: Tax-chick

gender dysphoria?


16 posted on 12/16/2017 6:58:20 AM PST by lastchance (Credo.)
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To: HLPhat

Gender dysphoria works. It defines a mental disorder


17 posted on 12/16/2017 6:59:55 AM PST by cyclotic (Trump tweets are the only news source you can trust.)
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To: Altura Ct.
George Orwell would have been the first to admit that by controlling language you can control people's attitudes.

Which is why I use the term "pre-born" instead of "unborn" and when referring to the Democrat's twice failed presidential candidate I refer to her as "Mrs. Bill Clinton", not the affectionate term "Hillary".

I request everyone do the same.

18 posted on 12/16/2017 7:02:54 AM PST by libertylover (Kurt Schlicter: "They wonder why they got Trump. They are why they got Trump")
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To: Tax-chick

Genetic male if the person has xy chromos.
Genetic female if xx Chrome’s.


19 posted on 12/16/2017 7:04:42 AM PST by Leep (Less talk more ACTiON!)
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Heh. By banning such words as 'transgender' in the cdc, the magnificent MAGA Trump had made criminals out of cdc employees in California, where it is illegal to use the 'wrong' gender pronouns.



20 posted on 12/16/2017 7:09:21 AM PST by Vision Thing (You see the depths of our hearts, and You love us the same...)
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