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  • Michigan State bans words like ‘America,’ ‘Christmas tree’ and ‘bunny,’ as conservatives accused of banning books

    04/05/2023 9:59:37 AM PDT · by Brown Deer · 40 replies
    The Lion ^ | April 3rd, 2023 | John Ransom
    A new ultra-woke style guide from Michigan State University (MSU) requires the school to avoid certain words to lessen “microaggressions.” The guide claims some of the newly banned words, like “frontier” and “pioneer,” are problematic because they remind people of America’s “colonial” past, said Fox News. In often opaque Marxist code, the MSU style guide explains the reasoning behind some of its more obtuse style requirements. “‘Minoritized’ or ‘marginalized’ can remove agency and reaffirm deficit language, avoid using unless in a quotation,” said the guide, in one example. “Avoid referring to someone from an underrepresented group as ‘articulate,’ as this...
  • Trump bans CDC from using words like 'transgender,' 'diversity,' and 'entitlement'

    12/16/2017 6:31:17 AM PST · by Altura Ct. · 42 replies
    American Thinker ^ | 12/16/2017
    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...
  • Al Jazeera English bans words "terrorist," "extremist," and "Jihad"

    01/29/2015 7:38:28 AM PST · by pabianice · 23 replies
    Fox News Channel | 1/29/15
    Gee. What a surprise.
  • 11-Yr-Old Suspended From School For Merely TALKING About Guns (Calvert County, Md)

    06/04/2013 9:09:52 PM PDT · by SWAMPSNIPER · 113 replies
    WMAL ^ | JUNE 03, 2013 | WMAL
    "The boy was questioned by the principal and a sheriff's deputy, who also wanted to search the family home without a warrant, Henkelman said. "He started asking me questions about if I have firearms, and [the deputy said] he's going to have to search my house. Search my house? I just wanted to know what happened."