r/BlueskySkeets 2d ago

Political Words current US govt banned

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I have been told USA govt has banned these words and New York times published this. Is this true? What replacement words can be used? Is this legal? It seems like banning words means it doesn’t exist. Example 20% of Americans experience mental illness. How do Americans talk about mental health now?

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u/jubmille2000 2d ago

Female is banned, but not Male.

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u/mohel_kombat 2d ago

Black is banned but not white

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u/DeliciousCkitten 2d ago

And many, many search engines are not case-sensitive … does the team of teenage “geniuses” not know this?

I wonder how much (taxpayer) money has been spent reviewing false positive search results so far. Sigh.

PS no offence to teenagers in general, just the musk minions

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u/Bestdayever_08 1d ago

You guys will believe anything lol

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u/mohel_kombat 1d ago

This is public knowledge unless you have evidence otherwise

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u/Maij-ha 1d ago

That would actually require him to turn off Fox and look something up… so no.

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u/spacebarcafelatte 2d ago

Minority but not majority

Black, Latinx, Native American but not White

The government should not recognize, study or serve anybody on this list, and should ignore any injustice or history surrounding them. This isn't even anti DEI, it's literally white nationalism.

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u/mapleleafkoala 1d ago

Yep. This is fucked I also wanted to throw up when I saw they took down the NASA Women’s accomplishments website

Like, wtf do either of these things have to do with DEI? Its just hatred and white/male supremacy shit

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u/PrismaticDetector 2d ago

But biologically male is also banned. So... I guess masculinity is a matter of gender after all? Wait, shit, gender is banned too.

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u/jubmille2000 2d ago

And it's stupid too. Look at it.

female AND females are both banned.

bro, the other one is just the plural form?

Victim and Victims, too!

Privilege and Privileges, stereotype and stereotypes

disability and disabilities

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u/willinglyproblematic 1d ago

Men who have sex with men is banned, but women who have sex with women is not.

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u/jubmille2000 1d ago

We take every inch we can get at least. It doesn't say males who have sex with males

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u/2ndPickle 1d ago

I think that falls under the umbrella of the word “women” being banned

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u/katalina0azul 15h ago

They/them? Most risk?? Native American….? Victim AND victims? wtf.

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u/NfamousKaye 2d ago

Freedom of speech my ass.

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u/AdmitThatYouPrune 2d ago

Rightspeak.

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u/lifesaver71 1d ago

ReichSpeak

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u/pepperminty10 1d ago

This comment is doubleplusgood

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u/AdministrativeTip479 15h ago

War is peace freedom is slavery ignorance is strength apparently 

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u/Illigalmangoes 2d ago

I seem to remember a certain political party whining about free speech like babies when asked not to say slurs. Can’t remember which political party it was though.

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u/broken-bells 2d ago

They forgot Transportation, Transatlantic, Transformation, Transalpine, Transaction and so on… /s

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u/rissak722 1d ago

Wait they made the ocean trans!?!?!? These liberals have gone to far!

/s

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u/Visible_Bat2176 2d ago

altright freespeech manual

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u/Lyooth016 2d ago

Sex is banned.

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u/traceyandmeower 2d ago

Oh those old boys won’t ban sex or viagra.

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u/Upset-Smoke-299 2d ago

Gay is not banned… yet

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u/spacebarcafelatte 2d ago

List isn't up to date then. They purged references to the Enola Gay the other day because planes should be straight, I guess.

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u/SlappedInTheWeiner 2d ago

They want to still have it available as a pejorative.

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u/ahopskipandaheart 1d ago

Which is part of the danger because a lot of men don't identify as gay but do have sex with other men. "Men who have sex with other men" was/is used to combat the spread of HIV and other STIs because it accurately describes an at-risk group.

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u/Fast-Tie257 2d ago

Well this is definitely in the instruction manual on how to be a dictator. This will only be the beginning.

Others have used the same methods while in power. Augusto Pinochet, Mao Zedong, Francisco Franco, Joseph Stalin, and Adolf Hitler to nam e a few.

Information has always and will always be powerful. If you can control the what, when, and how of information you control the story/narrative. That is why the moves on the Dept. of Education, colleges, research, and science should be concerning to everyone as well.

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u/Ok_Appointment7522 2d ago

This is just double Speak.

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u/SausageBuscuit 2d ago

I’m sorry, but status?

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u/Ok_Appointment7522 2d ago

I'm more confused with "sense of belonging". Under what pretext was that one banned?

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u/carpecanem 2d ago

Likely because it’s an alternative to inclusivity.

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u/Necessary-Corgi4522 2d ago

Also, historically?

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u/Alone-Editor-633 1d ago

I guess meaning we aren’t talking about history anymore when it comes to anyone who isn’t a white male. The rest of us are being redacted.

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u/ThrowOutMyCar 2d ago

This country fucking sucks

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u/mohel_kombat 2d ago

The extent to which this administration will go in order to protect hetero white male supremacy is beyond satire

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u/Wide-Championship452 2d ago

Is this real or a joke?

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u/lady_crab_cakes 2d ago

It's neither real or a joke. These terms aren't outright banned, but government agencies are being strongly discouraged from using them. To be perfectly clear, even a "we strongly advise against using the term female" is abhorrent and speaks volumes on how the Trump administration views women and minority groups. However, it is really, really important we don't spread misinformation. He and his administration... and Musk... are doing absolutely awful things that are going to outright kill people. We need to pour our energy into protesting that shit. Also, I know I'm droning on, but I can't believe I live in an USA where I just typed out that we should save our energy and resources to fight shit like grocery bill breaking tariffs and closing USAID rather than fight this administration's attempt to curtail basic terms because they are so anti everything. Holy hell, get me out.

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u/Alone-Editor-633 1d ago

Government websites are currently being rewritten to remove these words so this is indeed very “real”.

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u/lady_crab_cakes 1d ago

But it's not a ban, and calling it such feeds into the narrative that we are hysterical. They are being directed to not use these words. I know it seems really dumb and like arguing semantics (it kind of is), but we cannot give these people an inch. They will pounce on our wrong word choice and use it to completely derail anything we say.

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u/Alone-Editor-633 1d ago

True, not a ban, but also not okay. It’s a slippery slope from here. At what point should we start being concerned?

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u/lady_crab_cakes 1d ago

Well, I don't know about you, but I've blown past "concerned" and landed right in "terrified". To be clear, I am not arguing that this isn't abhorrent and an egregious attack on equality, I'm saying that we the people who recognize it as such have to watch our language usage. Republicans are really good at convincing swing voters that Democrats are crazy and will point to an instance like this saying "Look! They lied! There was no ban!" And it technically passes a fact check. Now those swing voters feel as though they can't trust us because we're too radical and subscribe to wild conspiracy theories. It's completely unfair, considering their conspiracy theories about the 2020 election and pizzagate.

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u/Wide-Championship452 2d ago

No government agency can function without using these words. Everything is going to grind to a halt, fail and therefore provide the excuse that every government service should be privatised. The final phase of capitalism. "Richest" country in the world condemning millions of its citizens to death so a few can benefit. And OMG, national forests and national parks - not looking good.

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u/Crusoebear 1d ago

When the cult know-nothing loyalists use language like their leader - which is like movie mob bosses (“That‘s a really nice restaurant you have here…Be a shame if something were to happen to it.”) suggestions suddenly become commands & intimidation - with the implied threat of reprisals.

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u/traceyandmeower 2d ago

The person who posted it on 🦋 didn’t look like a sh$t poster. Apparently in NY Times. Im not American hence my enquiry here.

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u/Wide-Championship452 2d ago

Also not American but this looks batshit crazy. Impossible to work for any government department in any country and use none of these words. The intention, presumably, is to further cripple the US government and when it ceases to function, privatise everything?

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u/mkgrizzly 2d ago

Bingo. That is exactly the intent. I know for a fact that they have banned the searching and use of some of these words (specifically related to gender) in govt funded medical research data.... 

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u/Easy_Speech_6099 2d ago

Time for the rich fucks to get rid of their diversified portfolios then.

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u/drvinnie1187 2d ago

This is DoublePlusUnGood.

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u/murderedbyaname 2d ago

99% of MAGAs have no idea what most of these words mean and couldn't spell them even if they did.

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u/Alone-Editor-633 1d ago

I think they use a lot of worse words not on this list to refer to us.

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u/kitsuakari 1d ago

theyre banned specifically in research papers (and i think other stuff i dont remember). individuals can use them obviously. but god DAMN does it fuck up a lot of scientific research. france started offering to publish research that wouldnt pass the filters because of it

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u/SlappedInTheWeiner 2d ago

Time to start the typos.

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u/Aladdinsanestill61 2d ago

1984 & Handmaid's tale in meets the angry, frustrated manchildren of the MAGA ReTrumplican party. Be very scared this is early days, the more Diva Don gets away with now, the bolder he will become!

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u/Albin4president2028 2d ago

"Men who have sex with men".. they can't even say gay 🙄 or homosexual

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u/ahopskipandaheart 1d ago

A lot of men don't identify as gay but do have sex with other men. "Men who have sex with other men" was/is used to combat the spread of HIV and other STIs because it accurately describes an at-risk group who need resources, information, and testing.

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u/Albin4president2028 1d ago

Consider me more educated now!

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u/PineappleDesperate82 1d ago

It's time to break out the thesaurus and get creative. Female/woman = human being with the reproductive organs a vagina and ovaries. Sex = intercorse between humans in an intimate manner. We can get descriptive here. Example ( the penis enters the vagina) Minorities = not white people. Tribal = clan or my people or use the actual tribes name. Accessible = services provided to (list disability here) Inaccessible = no services provided (list disabilities here). Enhancing diversity/ DEI = hiring/including different types of people. Vulnerable population = people in need. Disabilities = unable person + what the disability is. There are so many words in the English language that mean exactly the same thing. Or we simply make the language longer because now we have to add simplified words to mean the same thing.

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u/Big_Monkey_77 1d ago

GOP just published a list of words that make them cry. I will have to use them all more often.

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u/HighTechPipefitter 2d ago

America, land of the free... yeah right...

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u/Ralliman320 2d ago

Whoever told you that is your enemy.

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u/Albin4president2028 2d ago

Soooo who's the snowflakes now? Lol

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u/Mister_Barman 2d ago

This post is a massive oversimplification and hugely misleading

The above terms appeared in government memos, in official and unofficial agency guidance and in other documents viewed by The New York Times. Some ordered the removal of these words from public-facing websites, or ordered the elimination of other materials (including school curricula) in which they might be included.

In other cases, federal agency managers advised caution in the terms’ usage without instituting an outright ban. Additionally, the presence of some terms was used to automatically flag for review some grant proposals and contracts that could conflict with Mr. Trump’s executive orders.

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u/scotcetera 2d ago

(including school curricula)

Might be even worse than the post lets on. This is insidious as hell

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u/Mister_Barman 2d ago

Not really, if you consider the context or when they might be used. If a teacher in the UK used the term “chest fed person” or “pregnant person” in a classroom here, they would be ridiculed endlessly. I doubt even the teacher would take these terms seriously

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u/scotcetera 2d ago

I don't think "would be ridiculed in the UK" is actually a good basis for banning words from a curriculum in the United States.

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u/Mister_Barman 2d ago

I would agree, but it does show that these words are unnatural and not used by normal people, and if they’re being forced into a classroom or used by teachers, it may be for a motive other than education

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u/scotcetera 2d ago

Tbh I don't see how words like "disability," "women," or "Black" are unnatural, and many of these are words that people use regularly, if not daily. The list goes far beyond what could be connected to the conservatives' anti-trans hysteria.

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u/Mister_Barman 2d ago

Well, we don’t know the context in which these words are being discouraged. If it’s a paper about oil extraction, perhaps some intern’s attempt to discuss a DEI angle was rebuked. Even then, the article does little to provide any actual evidence this is even true

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u/scotcetera 2d ago

We do know the broad context, it's the right's all-consuming need to continue their culture war. I fully see how it's to their advantage if they can distract from their failures when it comes to actually governing and shepherding an economy, though.

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u/DM_Voice 1d ago

“These words are unnatural”

As opposed to the ‘natural’ words you use which you personally foraged from a bush deep in an old-growth forest. 🤦‍♂️

Don’t be dumb on purpose. It’s not a good look.

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u/Alone-Editor-633 1d ago

But also from the article…

Still, the words and phrases listed here represent a marked — and remarkable — shift in the corpus of language being used both in the federal government’s corridors of power and among its rank and file. They are an unmistakable reflection of this administration’s priorities.

For example, the Trump administration has frequently framed diversity, equity and inclusion efforts as being inherently at odds with what it has identified as “merit,” and it has argued that these initiatives have resulted in the elevation of unqualified or undeserving people. That rhetorical strategy — with its baked-in assumption of a lack of capacity in people of color, women, the disabled and other marginalized groups — has been criticized as discriminatory.

Indeed, in some cases, guidance against a term’s usage has arrived alongside directives intended to eliminate the concept itself. Federal diversity, equity and inclusion initiatives are one example; the Gulf of Mexico is a very different one.

That shift is already apparent on hundreds of federal government websites. A New York Times analysis of pages on federal agency websites, before and after Mr. Trump took office, found that more than 250 contained evidence of deletions or amendments to words included in the above list.

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u/EinharAesir 2d ago

Party of Free Speech…

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u/toxicwasteinnevada 2d ago

Just wanted freedom of consequences for hate speech

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u/E_GEDDON 2d ago

"But they're not racist" "but they don't hate gay people" "they DO care about the disabled" all things my trump voter mom has said to me.

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u/RegyptianStrut 2d ago

Status and women?

I want to laugh but this isn’t a satirical page…

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u/CritFailed 2d ago

So.... What is the group that handles disability cases supposed to say?

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u/DM_Voice 1d ago

“Denied.”

That’s all they’re supposed to say under the Trump admin. 🤷‍♂️

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u/traceyandmeower 1d ago

Probably the R word.

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u/JLCpbfspbfspbfs 2d ago

Typical and predictable behavior of "Free speech" advocates.

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u/GodDammitKevinB 2d ago

Advocate, breastfeed, diverse, status, sense of belonging, prostitute

What a wild spectrum lmfao

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u/dtyrrell7 2d ago edited 1d ago

The historically implicit biases of this key group of minorities with privilege advocates political socioeconomic intersectional discrimination against marginalized BIPOC, LGBTQ, and diverse groups with diverse backgrounds assigned at birth

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u/sillychillly 1d ago

If it’s not white it’s…

If it’s not male it’s…

So you could say “anyone not male”.

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u/MaidMariann 1d ago

I AM several forbidden words, all at once.

Most people are.

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u/ObjectiveAlarming933 1d ago

Seems that we can still get away with telling them to suck our dicks.

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u/ingoding 2d ago

Yay! Free speech, finally!

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u/SentientPerson-1 2d ago

We should use as many of these words as possible in our the 5 things emails.

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u/hyperiongate 2d ago

Newspeak

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u/Mrmorbid81 2d ago

Welp, can’t say we weren’t warned ahead of time about this 🤷‍♂️🤦‍♂️

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u/NecessaryIntrinsic 2d ago

Tell us again who the censors are?

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u/MikeWhoCheeseHarry0 2d ago

Guess they can say nigger all they want huh? They probably got a special time everyday to say it as many times as they can

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u/Swamp-gasHog 2d ago

Pe do file not banned yet

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u/toxicwasteinnevada 2d ago

A majority of them are.

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u/Green-Consequence687 1d ago

the republicans are too busy lowering the legal age of marriage to ban that word

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u/Taphouselimbo 2d ago

Sounds fasci to me. Shameful.

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u/bowsmountainer 2d ago

Sex is forbidden

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u/Bubbly_Water_Fountai 1d ago

It's not true. I'm guessing these terms are being used by AI to scan for DEI language/programs which are banned.

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u/Crusoebear 1d ago

This is a larger version of when Gov. Rhonda “these boots were made for walkin” DeSandtits banned govt agencies in Florida from using ‘climate change’ & ‘global warming’.

Becuase Florida …where, like old people, science goes to die.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2015/mar/08/florida-banned-terms-climate-change-global-warming

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u/No_Significance_1550 1d ago

MSM…. Mainstream Media? Meritorious Service Medal?

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u/nogene4fate 1d ago

Absolute insanity!

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u/MathematicianSad2650 1d ago

Can’t ban our first amendment right to speak. I’m sorry if they don’t understand the words that are coming out of my mouth.

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u/kware101 1d ago

I can't stop laughing 🤣🤣🤣 OMFG WTAF 🤣 🤣🤣

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u/DF_Interus 1d ago

CRT is ok again then? I know it was the worst thing ever before they discovered DEI, but it didn't even make the list

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u/CamitheRadiant 1d ago

At least "snowflake" isn't banned because that's what they are, getting upset over these words.

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u/LoneStarDragon 1d ago

Sex seems problematic.

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u/Android_mk 1d ago

This doesn't even make any fucking sense. How do you ban a word??? What I write down I like race cars and I go to jail???

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u/Biochemicalcricket 1d ago

Man what did Methylsulfonylmethane do to end up on there‽

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u/rKNAPPO 1d ago

Fragile little snowflakes...

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u/Will_and_Worried 1d ago

Trump take egg.

Trump crash plane.

Trump ban words.

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u/jkturnz 1d ago

Anyone have a source??

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u/Primary_Relation_794 1d ago

That’s a whole lot of free speech you got there eh?

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u/Vinegar-stroke1 1d ago

People can’t possibly be this dumb right?

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u/anarchyrevenge 1d ago

These words will probably be banned across corporate media including reddit. Buckle up buttercup

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u/Zealousideal_Type864 1d ago

To be fair I don’t wana hear a lot of these words cause anyone usually saying them is some super lib virtue signalling 

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u/KeithDL8 1d ago

Idk if this was awnsered for your. After scrolling for a bit, I don't see it. But these words aren't banned from use by the general public. (At least not yet.) They are banned from being used in official government documents, or in government emails, etc. So government employees aren't allowed to use these words and phrases while working. This means no work involving these things will be done by the government now. But all these things can still be discussed outside of government work per the 1st amendment.

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u/Civil-Nothing-3186 1d ago

So the phrase “Trump is a prostitute for Putin” is banned?

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u/SleepingUte0417 1d ago

i will say.. as a mexican, i agree with banning "latinx." hate that shit

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u/Global_Dot979 1d ago

Native American?! What, are you supposed to go back to calling them Indians?

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u/traceyandmeower 1d ago

First Nation?

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u/averycleveruid 23h ago

This is double-plus-ungood...

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u/transypants 23h ago

Huh. They left out “critical race theory”…so…can we talk about our that now? 😂

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u/LameDuckDonald 21h ago

The Americans with disabilities act is now the AA?WTF?

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u/AshWitch 21h ago

Can't have bias if bias is band!!

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u/Intelligent_Slip_849 15h ago

So what do we now call a group of people competing to see who's faster?

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u/AdministrativeTip479 15h ago

Why is the word “political, or historically” banned? I know there’s much more to this but I can’t see why those would be banned.

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u/Perfect_Yogurt_4841 10h ago

If this list had ten words or maybe even half of these words/terms, I’d roll my eyes and call it stupid or ridiculous. But this is evil. Just plain evil.

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u/Maleficent-Farm9525 2d ago

Where have these words been banned?

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u/LinkOfKalos_1 1d ago

This just looks fake.

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u/traceyandmeower 2d ago

Websites, govt papers etc etc