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In our recently submitted grants we had to change “traumatic brain injury” to “concussive brain injury” and “male and female mice” to “male and non-male mice” because traumatic and female are now verboten words that can get our grants killed. It’s insanity.

  • BigMacHole@sopuli.xyz
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    8 hours ago

    How DARE they Assume Mice can be MORE then just Male AND Female! NONMALE means ANYTHING THATS NOT MALE you Stupid Libtards Commies!

    -A Happy Republican Voter who just Lost their Medicaid and SNAP Benefits and saw their Toddler get Deported!

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      14 hours ago

      I’m french and I use verboten too, it’s in our genes to be scared of German words I think

  • LousyCornMuffins@lemmy.world
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    1 day ago

    Twenty years ago I was sitting in a city council meeting in middle Statesia where the city engineer was giving an estimate of traffic at an intersection. He described a liberal estimate (in this case the higher estimate) but led them that if he called it a liberal estimate they’d ignore it, so he was redefining conservative estimate to mean the opposite of what it does for all of his estimates just so they wouldn’t dismiss them out of hand. And it worked, the dumbfucks on the city council liked the numbers just because he called them conservative.

  • DeathByBigSad@sh.itjust.works
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    1 day ago

    Instead of “Leftwing” and “Rightwing”, we should just use “Alpha” and “Beta” respectively, just like they wanted. 🤭

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    A healthy, broadly educated population, which feels safe and secure, are incompatible with, and toxic to, conservative and authoritarian ideologies.

    They need you to be sick, stupid, and scared.

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    1 day ago

    Had to change the wording in my grants from “biodiversity” to “biological variety”. I work in conservation. This is indeed insanity.

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      and you cant say global warming is attributed to human related causes, must be something abstract like cosmic raditation.

  • Øπ3ŕ@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    1 day ago

    Ironically enough, if they used German words for such, it might just pass the Turd Reich censors. 🤷🏼‍♂️

  • list of banned words btw

    Activism, activists, advocacy, advocate, enhancing diversity, equal opportunity, equality, equitable, advocates, equity, ethnicity, barrier, barriers, biased, biased toward, biases, biases towards, BIPOC, Black and Latinx, excluded, female, females, fostering inclusivity, gender, gender diversity, genders, hate speech, Hispanic minority, community diversity, community equity, cultural differences, cultural heritage, historically, implicit bias, culturally responsive, implicit biases, disabilities, inclusion, disability, discriminated, discrimination, inclusive, minorities, minority, multicultural, polarization, political, prejudice, privileges, promoting diversity, race and ethnicity, racial, racial diversity, racial inequality, racial justice, racially, racism, sense of belonging, sexual preferences, social justice, sociocultural, socioeconomic status, stereotypes, systemic, inclusiveness, discriminatory, diverse backgrounds, inclusivity, increase diversity, increase the diversity, trauma, underappreciated, diverse communities, Indigenous community, underrepresented, diverse community, diverse group, inequalities, inequality, underserved, diverse groups, inequitable, diversified, inequities, diversify, diversifying, diversity and inclusion, diversity equity, institutional, LGBT, marginalize, marginalized, underrepresentation, underrepresented, underserved, undervalued, victim, women, underrepresented.

  • MystikIncarnate@lemmy.ca
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    2 days ago

    Tell me this: if you were watching a movie and men in black masks were taking people off the street and sending them off, never to be seen again, and those same men were separating children from parents forcibly and locking them all in cages/compounds for months on end…

    Would those people in this hypothetical movie, strike you as “good” guys, or “bad” guys?

    Because that’s what’s happening, in real life, in the USA, right now.

    Cue the “are we the baddies?” meme.

    • Angry_Autist (he/him)@lemmy.world
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      It’s not that meme, they will never have that moment of revelation because they enjoy what they are doing, and signed up for the chance to hurt others

      Humanity contains monsters and we need to stop pretending it doesn’t