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CDC Gets List of Forbidden Words: Science-Based, Evidence-Based, Vulnerable, Fetus, ...

posted by martyb on Sunday December 17 2017, @05:16AM   
from the George-Orwell-Says-Hi! dept.

An Anonymous Coward writes:

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."

https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/health-science/cdc-gets-list-of-forbidden-words-fetus-transgender-diversity/2017/12/15/f503837a-e1cf-11e7-89e8-edec16379010_story.html

You don't say!

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Original Submission

• Free Speech Brigade Shows Their True Colors Free Speech Brigade Shows Their True Colors (Score: 2, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Monday December 18 2017, @12:39AM (2 children)

  by Anonymous Coward on Monday December 18 2017, @12:39AM (#611183)

  This is some serious censorship. Of a kind not seen in modern American history.

  And yet all the people who are outraged and screaming in support of free speech when a bunch of college kids shout down nazis aren't just quiet about this issue. They are standing up in support of this speech control and justifying it with some serious pretzel logic.

  Hhhhm...

  If I didn't know better I'd say they are all a bunch of fucking hypocrites. But that can't be true, can it?

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• Re:Free Speech Brigade Shows Their True Colors Re:Free Speech Brigade Shows Their True Colors (Score: 2) by Jiro on Monday December 18 2017, @02:50AM (1 child)

  by Jiro (3176) on Monday December 18 2017, @02:50AM (#611242)

  The CDC works for the government.

  Calling this censorship is like claiming that if Trump hired a speechwriter, and told the speechwriter not to put certain things in the speech, that's censorship too.

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  • Re:Free Speech Brigade Shows Their True Colors (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday December 18 2017, @02:54AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Monday December 18 2017, @02:54AM (#611244)

    Pretzel logic on cue!

    The CDC does not work for the government. The CDC is the government. And thus is held to the most stringent interpretations of the constitution.

    Furthermore, the president-eject knows jackshit about what the CDC does. The CDC does not exist to please the president, it exists to serve the people.

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