cross-posted from: https://lemmy.blahaj.zone/post/23926538
cross-posted from: https://lemm.ee/post/60051791
A leaked memo from the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Research Service division revealed Sunday that the agency has banned some key language from its vocabulary, including the words “climate” and “vulnerable,” as well as the phrase “safe drinking water.”
Other baffling entries on the memo’s banned language list are “greenhouse gas emissions,” “methane emissions,” “sustainable construction,” “solar energy,” and “geothermal,” as well as “nuclear energy,” “diesel,” “affordable housing,” “prefabricated housing,” “runoff,” “microplastics,” “water pollution,” “soil pollution,” “groundwater pollution,” “sediment remediation,” “water collection,” “water treatment,” “rural water,” and “clean water,” among dozens of others.
Remember about a year ago when conservatives flipped the fuck out about a “woke banned word list”, acted like the world was crumbling and they couldn’t use any words at all anymore? And it was really just one university’s list of words that couldn’t be used in their official communications?
Oh, how the turntables.
AOL keyword: “brave” or “American”. It was Stanford
That university had no business banning those words and ideally the people who came up with the banned words would be guillotined. Because if you don’t nip thought policing in the bud, you end up with what the current administration is doing in an official capacity. Then the next step is the subject of various over referenced books and dystopian fictional stories except real.
Some of these are just bizarre. What was the thought process to ban “rural water” or “runoff”? Most of these are just climate change or environmental protection related sure the corpos want those banned and trump is glad to oblige.