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[–] [email protected] 35 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Since when does the CDC have the authority to do this in the first place? If the CDC can't effectively police actions during a global pandemic they sure as shit shouldn't have to authority to control the terminology used in medical research.

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

Maybe research that used CDC funds?

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

Crazy how polticized science is.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 day ago

Well now how will I explain that a pregnant dominant species member is not a Martian

[–] [email protected] 91 points 2 days ago (16 children)

The first books the Nazis burned were scientific research notes about trans people.

[–] [email protected] 31 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

The first books the Nazis burned were scientific research notes about trans people

Impressive that it is actually true, I thought it is an exaggeration. From Wikipedia:

On 30 January 1933, Adolf Hitler, the leader of the Nazi Party, came to power

On 6 May 1933, a group of students ... the students proceeded to shout "Brenne Hirschfeld!" ("Burn Hirschfeld!") while ransacking and vandalizing the Institute, tearing pictures from the walls, pouring inkwells onto carpets, and destroying exhibitions while the band played outside.

src: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transgender_people_in_Nazi_Germany

[–] [email protected] 24 points 1 day ago

Yeah, when they teach about book burnings they never mention that fact. It also serves as a reminder that trans people are not just a modern phenomenon. The Nazis' reasons for targeting trans people then are the same as right-wingers today, they look for a small, marginalized group and seize on existing prejudice to sow division and divide and conquer. The Nazis claimed trans people were a Jewish plot to weaken and destroy the Ayran race, and you can still see echos of that in some right-wing rhetoric today.

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[–] [email protected] 150 points 3 days ago

Look at all this cancel culture….

[–] [email protected] 77 points 3 days ago (1 children)

“forbidden terms”

...must be that "free speech" I keep hearing about. This is obviously a first amendment issue, right?

Right?

[–] [email protected] 46 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (2 children)

to be fair you've been hearing about it from this troglodyte:

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[–] [email protected] 284 points 3 days ago (19 children)

I'm so fucking scared. They've inhibited our movement by fucking with passports, they've defined us as dishonest and dishonorable in the EO kick us out of the military, they've codified the notion that our gender identity constitutes sexual deviance and poses a threat to children, they've attacked proven life-saving care, with a focus on children and an impact on adults.

and now they're trying to book-burn us out of existence.

this is systematic dehumanization, the track record of which is grim.

There's just straight up not enough of us to do this on our own.

If people don't start standing up for us, we're fucked.

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[–] [email protected] 223 points 3 days ago (7 children)

An attack on science is an attack on us all. They are trying to erase science they dont agree with. This is Christian fascism - welcome to giliad.

Anyone in the US please organise - join an anti religious influence group, protest, disobey. You must fight back.

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[–] [email protected] 157 points 3 days ago
[–] [email protected] 150 points 3 days ago

Literally speedrunning the Nazi handbook.

[–] [email protected] 64 points 3 days ago (1 children)
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[–] [email protected] 78 points 3 days ago (3 children)

So much money wasted modifying all these documents.

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[–] [email protected] 93 points 3 days ago (4 children)
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[–] towerful 107 points 3 days ago (4 children)
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[–] [email protected] 44 points 3 days ago

This is... This is bad! Wow.

[–] [email protected] 71 points 3 days ago (6 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 32 points 3 days ago (1 children)

This is a 21st century version of book burning.

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[–] [email protected] 114 points 3 days ago (3 children)

Back up everything. Don't let it be memory-holed! Holy crap.

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[–] [email protected] 31 points 3 days ago

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.

[–] [email protected] 80 points 3 days ago

Oh look...

The US is embedding a totalitarian theonomic government. A new, (soon to be) militarized, hierarchy regime of religious fanaticism and newly created social classes, in which DEI is being brutally subjugated.

I swear I've seen this show before...

[–] [email protected] 80 points 3 days ago (1 children)

And just like that sci-hub will be even more useful

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