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DonViejo

(60,536 posts)
Sat Dec 16, 2017, 06:23 PM Dec 2017

Dem senator compares CDC word ban to '1984'

Source: The Hill



BY JOHN BOWDEN - 12/16/17 05:11 PM EST

Oregon Sen. Jeff Merkley (D) blasted the reported list of prohibited words that the Trump administration supposedly supplied the Center for Disease Control (CDC), comparing the tactic to those used in George Orwell's novel "1984."

Merkley responded to a Washington Post report Saturday that reported the Trump administration had banned the CDC from using the terms “vulnerable,” “entitlement,” “diversity,” “transgender,” “fetus,” “evidence-based” and “science-based" in official documents prepared for next year's budget.




The Post report also claimed that one official at the CDC said that other segments of the Department of Health and Human Services were likely operating under the guidelines as well.

“It was very much, ‘Are you serious? Are you kidding?’ ” the official told the newspaper, “In my experience, we’ve never had any pushback from an ideological standpoint.”

Read more: http://thehill.com/homenews/administration/365272-dem-senator-compares-cdc-word-ban-to-1984



Schatz: Republicans need to stand up to Trump over CDC word ban

BY MAX GREENWOOD - 12/16/17 04:59 PM EST

Sen. Brian Schatz (D-Hawaii) said Saturday that Republicans have a responsibility to stand up to President Trump after senior officials at the Centers for Disease Control reportedly issued a list of banned words and phrases to the agency's policy analysts.




The Washington Post reported Friday that senior CDC officials distributed a list of words and phrases that policy analysts would have to refrain from using in official documents prepared for the 2019 budget.

Among the "forbidden" words and phrases listed are "fetus," "diversity," "transgender," "entitlement," "science-based" and "evidence-based," according to the Post.

The Department of Health and Human Services pushed back against reports of the list on Saturday, saying that the notion that it had prohibited the use of certain words was "a complete mischaracterization of discussions regarding the budget formulation process."

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http://thehill.com/homenews/senate/365269-schatz-republicans-need-to-stand-up-to-trump-over-cdc-word-ban
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Dem senator compares CDC word ban to '1984' (Original Post) DonViejo Dec 2017 OP
We live in truly weird F'en times! I would like to see the word TRUMP banned from office. n/t RKP5637 Dec 2017 #1
Ungood. johnp3907 Dec 2017 #2
++ungood! lagomorph777 Dec 2017 #7
Well these words are only banned from the CDC budget document FakeNoose Dec 2017 #3
Just like what happened to NOAA and EPA. No "climate change", "global warming". . . nt Bernardo de La Paz Dec 2017 #4
Campaign of Disinformation Lonestarblue Dec 2017 #5
This is just the tip of the iceberg unfortunately. BigmanPigman Dec 2017 #6
This Administration and burrowowl Dec 2017 #8
Does anyone know where the list originated? JustABozoOnThisBus Dec 2017 #9
There should be a political commissar to remove all evidence of "Evidence-Based Medicine" from dalton99a Dec 2017 #10
Dictator Don's, wait until year 3. sarcasmo Dec 2017 #11

FakeNoose

(32,639 posts)
3. Well these words are only banned from the CDC budget document
Sat Dec 16, 2017, 06:42 PM
Dec 2017

... presumably not banned from other documents and reports. Or maybe it's too soon to really know that.

The budget doesn't get read by many people though, other than government officials like people in the White House. They're not known to be voracious readers either.

Lonestarblue

(9,998 posts)
5. Campaign of Disinformation
Sat Dec 16, 2017, 07:20 PM
Dec 2017

Fox News provides prooagand every day, Trump calls media reports fake news and many Americans accept whatever they’re reporting as fake, the Trump administration lies about what they’re doing every day (and we probably know very little about everything they’re doing), scientific climate data have been removed from governemnt sites, and now they’re banning certain words to make information less obvious to the public. Are these not characteristics of censorship?

I’m not on Twitter, but someone might tweet Sen. Merkley the following from the History Learning Site:

“Censorship was rampant throughout Nazi Germany. Censorship ensured that Germans could only see what the Nazi hierarchy wanted people to see, hear what they wanted them to hear and read only what the Nazis deemed acceptable. The Nazi police dealt with anyone who went outside of these boundaries. Censorship dominated the lives of the ordinary citizen in Nazi Germany.”

BigmanPigman

(51,605 posts)
6. This is just the tip of the iceberg unfortunately.
Sat Dec 16, 2017, 07:33 PM
Dec 2017

Of course soon there won't be any icebergs (climate change) so I suppose that the few surviving generations will need to rewrite new phrases and terminology that may or may not be censored or relevant. That is if it is even allowed by our future, fascist dictators.

burrowowl

(17,641 posts)
8. This Administration and
Sun Dec 17, 2017, 04:09 AM
Dec 2017

their fellow Rethug travelers are more than reprehensible, they are traitors!!!!

JustABozoOnThisBus

(23,343 posts)
9. Does anyone know where the list originated?
Sun Dec 17, 2017, 08:39 AM
Dec 2017

Who dreamed it up, who gave it to CDC?

The list is so stupid, it seems like the work of O'Keefe's Project Veritas. Edit to add: or the Onion.

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