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.
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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, weve 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.
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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
RKP5637
(67,109 posts)johnp3907
(3,731 posts)Double plus ingood, in fact.
lagomorph777
(30,613 posts)Random memory - I used to work with a guy named Winston Smith.
FakeNoose
(32,639 posts)... 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.
Bernardo de La Paz
(49,002 posts)Lonestarblue
(9,998 posts)Fox News provides prooagand every day, Trump calls media reports fake news and many Americans accept whatever theyre reporting as fake, the Trump administration lies about what theyre doing every day (and we probably know very little about everything theyre doing), scientific climate data have been removed from governemnt sites, and now theyre banning certain words to make information less obvious to the public. Are these not characteristics of censorship?
Im 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)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)their fellow Rethug travelers are more than reprehensible, they are traitors!!!!
JustABozoOnThisBus
(23,343 posts)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.