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The first books the Nazis burned were scientific research notes about trans people.
I really hope some people are archiving stuff as fast as possible…
The CDC has instructed its scientists to retract or pause the publication of any research manuscript being considered by any medical or scientific journal, not merely its own internal periodicals
The scope is thankfully limited only to CDC scientists.
Not that this makes it good news by any stretch.
This is going to push research money squarely under the thumb of corporate control, which is of course the aim here. Privatize everything.
I do know scientists hate having their work paywalled or censored so I’d expect sci-hub to get a lot more popular real quick, but many will definitely self censor their official publications to keep their jobs til orange hitler shoots himself in a bunker somewhere.
“forbidden terms”
…must be that “free speech” I keep hearing about. This is obviously a first amendment issue, right?
Right?
to be fair you’ve been hearing about it from this troglodyte:
I don’t see the difference between the two pictures. Is the left one supposed to be black and white? And the right being in colour?
One on the right seems pretty black and white too.
The GOP read the Bolshevik, CCP and Nazi playbooks.
Are you fucking kidding me?!?! What the fuck is wrong with that orange fucking clown? Jesus fuckjng christ.
This is… This is bad! Wow.
How long until this evil administration forces some citizens to sew a yellow star or pink triangle on their clothes?
Yellow star is so last world war.
It’ll definitely be pink triangles and moon and star this go around
What the actual fuck?! It’s like living in a fever-driven nightmare. We can only hope there are backups of the un-purged documents.
1984
More like 1930s Germany.
In case anyone is unfamiliar - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Institut_für_Sexualwissenschaft#Nazi_era
But with new technology available, so the sci-fi distopia analogy makes sense.
So much money wasted modifying all these documents.
For them, it’s worth the cost for greater good.
For them, it’s worth the cost for greater
goodharm.They don’t care about the greater good. They care about causing as much harm as they can.
Uh causing as much harm as possible is their greater good
Look at all this cancel culture….
Oh, it’s not the onion.
What’s the opposite of eating the onion? That happened to me just now too
Crying.
Drinking the swamp
Hopeful thinking
Don’t they know just because you’ve banned a word, doesn’t mean that the item or thing automatically poofs out of existence?
This is that easy. There’s a few words I’d love to ban. How about Elmo? And Turd
It’s just the first step. You don’t acknowledge they exist on paper or in speech. That makes it much easier to turn against them physically. It’s still up in the air whether or not they take the final steps of making their existence illegal. I think they will.
Wiping trans people from existence is easier for them to do when nobody is allowed to talk about them.
This is a 21st century version of book burning.
This is Project 2025 in action.
What about Turd Ferguson?
Unfortunately, this kind of control of language does work in the long term.
It makes it harder to pursue science when you cannot use the terns others in ypur field use.
This is pretty dumb even by trump standards. You would think the right of all people would know that trying to ban terms will just result in new euphemisms and jargon being created.
Most of the research caught up is probably going to be using the terms incidentally (for instance, a drug study that happens to mention participants were AMAB) and this will cause a bunch of paperwork and probably just end up being changed to something like “gametically” or “chromosomally”.
Think even more general than that. Ignore identity/gender/sexuality issues for a moment. How do you write a research article about the negative effects of a drug on pregnancy without using the word pregnant? About complications during a “normal pregnancy”(I’m using their word, not mine - please don’t take offense - I hope you see where I’m going)? If you can’t mention gender or pregnancy, even when it’s about cis people, you suddenly can’t do a whole hell of a lot of research.
Oh you can say pregnant woman. Just not pregnant person.
You would think the right of all people would know that trying to ban terms will just result in new euphemisms and jargon being created.
The right thinks that if they clamp down hard enough that it will just go away, much like LGBTQ people were forced to mask and hide themselves like they had to back in the day, otherwise they ended up like Matthew Shepard. I don’t know that they even consider the euphemism treadmill aspect of things, they just don’t want these people to feel like they can be themselves and feel safe.
