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."
You don't say!
(Score: -1, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday December 17 2017, @05:46AM (3 children)
The original Romans got a sense of entitlement, becoming unused to the hard life. They got diversity, bringing in all sorts of people who didn't share Roman values. Rome fell.
The CDC will now be keeping quiet about such problems, which is at least better than encouraging the problems.
(Score: 2) by chromas on Sunday December 17 2017, @06:08AM (1 child)
At first, I thought you were stuffing in all the forbidden phrases. I am a disappoint.
(Score: 3, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday December 17 2017, @06:50AM
The original Romans got a sense of entitlement, becoming unused to the hard life. They got diversity, bringing in all sorts of people who didn't share Roman values. Rome became vulnerable and fell, standing as precedent from which to make evidence-based assertions about the dangers of immigration and acceptance of murdering fetuses, transgender rights, and science-based thinking. MAIA!
(Score: 3, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday December 17 2017, @10:58AM
To be specific, the Roman Empire fell.
It's happened to every empire that has existed.
The reason Rome had an empire was that they let their republic slip away from them.
Mitch Jeserich has a "Letters and Politics" program on Pacifica Radio that is often excellent on historical matters.
A while back, he had this guy on.
The Beginning Of The End Of The Roman Republic - Mike Duncan [kpfa.org]
A couple of weeks before that, he had this guy on.
The Birth Of American Empire - Stephen Kinzer [kpfa.org]
He talks about USA.gov's invasion and occupation of Hawaii in 1896 and especially about the trumped-up Spanish-American War in 1898.
There's a direct line between that stuff and over half of USA's current budget going to militarism.
Over a century ago, USA also lost its republic.
N.B. Those are ~22MB MP3s, available infinitely.
The presentations start at about 07:00, after an intro and the day's newsbreak, and they go for about 50 minutes at normal playback speed.
-- OriginalOwner_ [soylentnews.org]