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The first books the Nazis burned were scientific research notes about trans people.
They then executed everyone with a brain. Drs, teachers, engineers, scientists, researchers, etc
The CDC has instructed its scientists to retract or pause the publication of any research manuscript being considered by any medical or scientific journal, not merely its own internal periodicals
The scope is thankfully limited only to CDC scientists.
Not that this makes it good news by any stretch.
This is going to push research money squarely under the thumb of corporate control, which is of course the aim here. Privatize everything.
I do know scientists hate having their work paywalled or censored so I’d expect sci-hub to get a lot more popular real quick, but many will definitely self censor their official publications to keep their jobs til orange hitler shoots himself in a bunker somewhere.
I don’t even know about corporate control here but we’re only going to get “research” that “aligns with policy”, rather than quantifying facts
“forbidden terms”
…must be that “free speech” I keep hearing about. This is obviously a first amendment issue, right?
Right?
to be fair you’ve been hearing about it from this troglodyte:
I don’t see the difference between the two pictures. Is the left one supposed to be black and white? And the right being in colour?
One on the right seems pretty black and white too.
I really hope some people are archiving stuff as fast as possible…
times 3.12.23 reporting bb dayorder doubleplussungood refs unpersons rewrite fullwise upsub antefiling
In Oldspeak, this might be rendered:
CDC orders mass retraction and revision of submitted research across all science and medicine journals. Banned terms must be scrubbed. (Including gender, transgender, pregnant person, LGBT, and more)
The GOP read the Bolshevik, CCP and Nazi playbooks.
Are you fucking kidding me?!?! What the fuck is wrong with that orange fucking clown? Jesus fuckjng christ.
This is… This is bad! Wow.
What the actual fuck?! It’s like living in a fever-driven nightmare. We can only hope there are backups of the un-purged documents.
How long until this evil administration forces some citizens to sew a yellow star or pink triangle on their clothes?
Yellow star is so last world war.
It’ll definitely be pink triangles and moon and star this go around
1984
More like 1930s Germany.
In case anyone is unfamiliar - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Institut_für_Sexualwissenschaft#Nazi_era
But with new technology available, so the sci-fi distopia analogy makes sense.
So much money wasted modifying all these documents.
For them, it’s worth the cost for greater good.
For them, it’s worth the cost for greater
goodharm.They don’t care about the greater good. They care about causing as much harm as they can.
Uh causing as much harm as possible is their greater good
Look at all this cancel culture….
Oh, it’s not the onion.
What’s the opposite of eating the onion? That happened to me just now too
Crying.
Drinking the swamp
Hopeful thinking
Don’t they know just because you’ve banned a word, doesn’t mean that the item or thing automatically poofs out of existence?
This is that easy. There’s a few words I’d love to ban. How about Elmo? And Turd
It’s just the first step. You don’t acknowledge they exist on paper or in speech. That makes it much easier to turn against them physically. It’s still up in the air whether or not they take the final steps of making their existence illegal. I think they will.
Wiping trans people from existence is easier for them to do when nobody is allowed to talk about them.
This is a 21st century version of book burning.
This is Project 2025 in action.
What about Turd Ferguson?
Unfortunately, this kind of control of language does work in the long term.
It makes it harder to pursue science when you cannot use the terns others in ypur field use.
