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In our recently submitted grants we had to change “traumatic brain injury” to “concussive brain injury” and “male and female mice” to “male and non-male mice” because traumatic and female are now verboten words that can get our grants killed. It’s insanity.

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 4 days ago

Anti-Woke stuff is ridiculous.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 days ago

Wow they didn't need to take the George all real concept of double speak so far

[–] [email protected] 9 points 4 days ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 10 points 4 days ago (2 children)

Actually more inclusive terminology lol

[–] [email protected] 6 points 4 days ago (1 children)

I think the male is a bit hostile and problematic too. It should be non-male and non-female

[–] [email protected] 7 points 4 days ago (3 children)

Can't use the word female in any context so it would have to be non-male and non-non-male.

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 days ago

Honestly just write "mice", there's no need to specify male and female if you're working on both, unless there's a third secret type of mice you unlock by beating the game with Blanka or something.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 4 days ago (7 children)

These idiots will learn one day that you can't kill an idea.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Orwell would disagree, unfortunately.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Fortunately, he's not a historian.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 4 days ago (1 children)

But he’s got lived experience of totalitarianism. Of rhetorical practices states use to crush ideas.

Epistemically he’s very qualified to comment on this.

And academics who you might call historians, like Foucault, would back him up here.

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 days ago

But you can kill mice! Presumably with a little box and a miniature, spring-loaded boxing glove stored inside

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 days ago

Ironically enough, if they used German words for such, it might just pass the Turd Reich censors. 🤷🏼‍♂️

[–] [email protected] 5 points 4 days ago

leave the us then. drain your brain off to somewhere that doesnt hate you.

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Where is all the outrage for word switching here?

The master/main folks are sure silent.

Or the male/female folks vs plug and socket?

I don't think anybody was against master/slave over primary/secondary.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 4 days ago

I think the difference is that those are reasonable and come from within the community of use. Even if a loud minority acted up for a few days.

The examples in the post are just silly and are forced onto the community of use by political overlords.

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