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CDC stands for "Centers For Disease Control And Prevention." And one of the diseases that CDC now seems want to prevent is the disease of being unwoke which is why it recently issued a detailed guideline titled "Preferred Terms for Select Population Groups & Communities."The new woke terms they have chosen to replace the old unenlightened (in their opinion) words are often hilariously awkward, unnecessarily lengthy, and downright absurd. Here is their description of the CDC Newspeak aka "non-stigmatizing language."

I have loved words since I learned to talk and read. I was reading before I entered kindergarten. According to my cousin Ricky (may he rest in peace), at 6, I was talking to him in full sentences and using words that were above my age grade. I have heard that people who are real mathematicians see colors and pictures when they do their thing with numbers. It’s that way for me with words—they dance, tell me where they need to go, and are very much like children with distinct personalities: the challenge is to get them to work in...