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submitted 23 hours ago by MicroWave@lemmy.world to c/science@lemmy.world

Summary

FDA scientists have been instructed to avoid using words like "woman," "disabled," and "elderly" in external communications, per a leaked list circulating within the agency.

The directive, reportedly linked to Trump’s executive order against "gender ideology," has caused confusion and concern.

The White House denies most words are banned but confirms restrictions on terms related to gender and diversity.

Scientists fear these limits will hinder medical research and public health efforts.

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[-] MapleEngineer@lemmy.world 4 points 3 hours ago

The only allowed words are "straight", "white", "Christian" and "man".

[-] Harbinger01173430@lemmy.world 19 points 10 hours ago

Wait, so we can use Talking Rib and Cripple instead?

[-] greenfish@lemmy.world 7 points 7 hours ago

My friend is a proposal manager for a non-profit. She had to advise some of her scientists to use 'non-man person' for a proposal for a grant to study breast cancer. I wish I were joking

[-] whoisearth@lemmy.ca 8 points 6 hours ago

How this continues to be ok with Americans is beyond me. Change stops on an individual level. Your friend should have called bullshit then and there and refuse to use non-man person. Over 50% of the goddamn population is a non-man person.

[-] atrielienz@lemmy.world 2 points 6 hours ago

Distractions. There are a lot of them and most of us are replying to the distractions with emotional messages and Hitler/nazi-musk memes instead of doing our due diligence to find out what's going on and how we can stop it. The memes, they do nothing but give us the sense of camaraderie without direction or objective. And any time you tell the people making them that, they get mad and block you or downvote you.

[-] AlolanYoda@mander.xyz 1 points 5 hours ago

I propose dividing people into penised people and penisless people. I'm sure vagina is banned too but I can't remember

[-] TheBat@lemmy.world 28 points 12 hours ago

Once again, those 7 million or so asshats that didn't vote for Kamala because of 'GeNoCiDe JoE', this is on you.

[-] lemmingthelemmers@lemmy.world 7 points 8 hours ago

Imagine your house is on fire. You know you can put it out. You just have to get the right tools. Along come the democrats.

They promise you left and right that if you can make just one more donation they will help you put out the fire. You accept. They take your money and tell you that there is nothing that they can do to help you even though they have all the means and capabilities to do so. They got firetrucks around the corner and helicopter based water hoses. They even have a genie that could magically put out your fire and rebuild your house that would cost them nothing to disperse. The parliamentarian says there is no room in the budget for putting out fires even though it would cost nothing.

They tell you it's your neighbors fault who's house is also on fire. They say, "well if he had donated to us then we could have helped him like we are helping you." As the fire grows and consumes the whole structure Kamala Harris arrives to recount the single mother story for all the people suffering from burning houses.

They ask her what this has to do with their houses being on fire and she cuts them off - "I am speaking." She is booed by the people who have become restless because their houses have become ash.

"Don't worry people, I know how to solve your problems" as she pulls out a big check. "How much do you think it'll cost to rebuild your houses?"

The estimate it will take about $10 billion.

"Alright then how about $100 billion?" She offers. She also hands them each a $100 bill so they they can get groceries for the week.

The residents rejoice. They can't believe it. They are saved or so they think. When they finally get the money they are confused. She must have made a mistake

The $100 for groceries were given to them directly while the check is made out to Israel.

"Do you condemn Hamas?' Harris asks as she grabs Liz Cheney and a blowtorch.

Every time you vote blue or red a small country in the middle east gets more of your tax dollars. Stop the madness.

[-] KairuByte@lemmy.dbzer0.com 11 points 7 hours ago

As a country we were given the choice between letting one house burn vs letting the entire city burn, and instead of making a helpful choice a group of people decided to protest fire, and yet more decided to just sit at home while the world burned around them.

They knew what the choices were. Trump flat out said he didn’t care about the constitution, didn’t care about human life, and didn’t care about democracy.

[-] DragonTypeWyvern@midwest.social 18 points 12 hours ago

But not the 75 million fascists

[-] Draedron@lemmy.dbzer0.com 18 points 11 hours ago

Them too. Both are equally to blame.

[-] o_arguido@lemmy.world 7 points 10 hours ago

When you keep having to vote for the lesser evil for so long, you get Trump.

Democrats were a lesser evil and that wasn't enough.

[-] moitoi@lemmy.dbzer0.com 15 points 13 hours ago

Some women voted to be enslaved. This says a lot about our society and where we should work on.

[-] Doomsider@lemmy.world 3 points 5 hours ago* (last edited 5 hours ago)

You have seen them wear I want to be grabbed by the pussy shirts? Words have become meaningless to them.

[-] StandStillLaddie@lemmy.world 92 points 22 hours ago

I assume "raping women" and "making fun of the disabled" are still ok. Fascist fuck.

[-] cupcakezealot 36 points 21 hours ago

almost as if terfism and gender criticism is just thinly veiled misogyny and women hating politics

[-] whydudothatdrcrane@lemmy.ml 11 points 19 hours ago

"Am I out of touch?" The irony was lost on TERFs ever since they were applauded by anti-abortion christian and white nationalists and nazis, and they still went "No, it is the trans that are profoundly misogynist".

[-] xiao@sh.itjust.works 9 points 16 hours ago

I still can't understand how people have been able to elect this guy...

[-] itsathursday@lemmy.world 38 points 22 hours ago

Sorry but just because this mentions FDA this has nothing to do with science. This is an article about politics and bigotry. Real science is happening elsewhere and it’s unfortunate it probably won’t come from the US.

[-] whydudothatdrcrane@lemmy.ml 33 points 19 hours ago

We could say that science is under attack (see following sources). In this case, it belongs.


Can we agree that:

  1. Science is under attack.
  2. Weaponized cisgenderism is science denialism at this point.
  3. Free speech absolutism is a trope to suppress all freedom except for white supremacist rhetoric.
  4. The attacks are not limited to trans but also cis women, including cis women scientists.
  5. Trans rights stem from a complex set of fundamental freedoms, and opposing them is profoundly fascist.


If anyone does not agree, ex post facto, with the above points is a literal nazi apologist at this point, and can go debate if FElon's salute was nazi or not. I don't have the time of day for this though.

Can we further agree that scientists must be in the social and ideological avant-garde and opposing fascism, like Einstein did?

Then we see at a time that science is under attack, in the context of a petrifying fascist power grab from anti-vax charlatans, and in the name of science innocent people are vilified and persecuted, that the relevance of these developments ought to be front and center to all science-related communities, much like this once were:


Because this more or less shows the fossil fuel interests that are behind all this.

[-] EvacuateSoul@lemmy.world 3 points 16 hours ago

Well let's just say I'd have rather been in the control of the American Experiment.

[-] P1nkman@lemmy.world 5 points 16 hours ago

So the Trump Bible should be changed to Adam and Adam.

[-] PrincessLeiasCat@sh.itjust.works 9 points 18 hours ago

“What is a [REDACTED]?”

[-] zombieshotgun@lemmy.world 8 points 17 hours ago

“A miserable pile of [REDACTED]!”

[-] morrowind@lemmy.ml 19 points 22 hours ago

bro is getting insecure about his age

[-] athairmor@lemmy.world 18 points 22 hours ago

I can’t wait until a stroke puts him in a wheelchair and he has to eat McDonalds through a straw.

[-] AbidanYre@lemmy.world 11 points 22 hours ago

Better if the stroke puts him 6ft under.

[-] gnome@programming.dev 7 points 22 hours ago

How are they supposed to refer to a woman then? ~wo~MAN?

[-] Mirshe@lemmy.world 2 points 57 minutes ago

Preferably, they won't. At all. "Non-male person" at best.

[-] HakFoo@lemmy.sdf.org 12 points 22 hours ago

Presumably "femoids" or some other 4chan coinage.

[-] Mouselemming@sh.itjust.works 5 points 20 hours ago

They aren't.

Anyone other than no disabled cis hetero white males is irrelevant.

[-] BitsAndBites@lemmy.world 7 points 22 hours ago
[-] optissima@lemmy.ml 1 points 16 hours ago

Oh that explains the plane binary...

[-] Kaiserschmarrn@feddit.org 7 points 22 hours ago
[-] vivi@slrpnk.net 7 points 22 hours ago

I'm pretty sure the lists I've seen circulating also ban the word female... which is so bizarre

[-] itsathursday@lemmy.world 2 points 17 hours ago

“Wives” I guess since that seems to be the only position that these people value.

[-] Ghyste@sh.itjust.works 4 points 22 hours ago

The fragile snowflake might have a breakdown...

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