Calling MAGA the word police would be an understatement.
Some U.S. Food and Drug Administration scientists have been told to stop using the words “woman,” “disabled” and “elderly” in external communications, two sources familiar with the matter said, part of a list of banned terms that a White House spokesman said had misinterpreted President Donald Trump’s executive order.
A list with the file name “Prohibited words” has been circulating since at least last week….
The White House spokesman told Reuters that… an error may have resulted from FDA officials misinterpreting Trump’s executive order against “gender ideology.”
The White House says it has banned gender ideology, that is all, not the idea of a gender. What’s so confusing about that, right?
Allow me to clarify. Ahem!
The White House insists they’ve only banned “gender ideology,” not gender-related words, which is like when you haven’t banned talking about elephants in the room, you’ve just prohibited mentioning any large gray mammals with trunks. Of course you can still discuss elephants! Just use the only officially approved words “non-hippo pachyderm.”
What is really going on is the White House has banned a list of banned words about banned words – but we won’t be allowed to call it that. The FDA soon will get the official list of banned words on a blank sheet of paper, because to make the list would violate the ban.
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The Nazi party (AfD) in Germany now backed by Elon Musk prohibits use of the letter L.
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The White House has shut down offices for fighting disinformation and fired experts on the basis that any orders restricting speech, even dangerous adversarial attacks, should be seen as a violation of rights.
Next up: disbanding the weather service because predicting rain violates First Amendment rights of factories that pollute toxins into clouds. Meteorologists stand accused of liberal bias pushing a ‘precipitation ideology.’ Sources say rain now must be called only ‘spontaneous sky moistening events’ to avoid offending constitutional rights of the purest white snowflakes.