• Shawdow194
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    389 hours ago

    Trump and his fellow fascists use terms like DEI to describe anything they don’t like, which means that the word “women” is on the forbidden list while “men” doesn’t initiate a review.

    Straight white men are seen through the MAGA worldview as the default human and thus wouldn’t be suspicious and in need of a review. Any other type of identity is inherently suspect.

    It’s still not clear what happens on the other side of all this. But when they’re flagging words like “women” and “trauma,” less than three weeks in, it can’t be good.

    • Flying SquidOP
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      289 hours ago

      They’re flagging words that have scientific applications that have nothing to do with anything divisive but are also used with things they find divisive. You can’t use “barrier” or “historically” or fucking “polarization.”

      • @thesohoriots
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        99 hours ago

        Ironically, my primary area of study was Marxist theory with an emphasis on bureaucracy, and those words aren’t on the list. But once again, STEM gets all the attention.

        • Flying SquidOP
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          Please explain what is biased about the three words I just listed. What are they biased against, cells, time and magnetism?

          • @[email protected]
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            6 hours ago

            Bias is a banned word, thats what they were pointing out.

            Edit: In specific

            • biased
            • biased toward
            • biases
            • biases towards
              • @[email protected]
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                46 hours ago

                Considering the down votes they got, I don’t think you were the only person to take what they said differently, the conservatives out there are really fucking up even basic communication with this crap.