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Originally Posted by Demi.
Okay, lets move along shall we?
It turns out the CDC banning certain words isn't true. I can't find a CNN or Washington Post article that corrects their mistake. Their story was inaccurate on many levels. Particularly on who they blamed, which was misinformation at best and a complete fabrication at worst.
http://www.slate.com/articles/health...t_the_cdc.html
The culprits were career CDC officials who fear that certain words may offend republicans to the point of having their budgets cut. So they reasoned that these words are best to be avoided. The Trump administration had no involvement in it; it was liberal bureaucrats doing whatever they can think of to protect their work from scrutiny. |
This story isn't quite accurate either. If you read the tweets from the CDC, despite claiming there are no banned words, she also says this:
"The assertion that HHS has 'banned words' is a complete mischaracterization of discussions regarding the budget formulation process."
So which is it? Is there a ban, or not? People often misunderstand how political language works. It's not a ban, you can still talk about it, but you can't call it what it is. This creates a huge sense of obfuscation, because now people speak in code rather than getting to the point.