Posted on 12/16/2017 10:20:58 PM PST by Oshkalaboomboom
Multiple agencies in the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) have reportedly been told by the Trump administration that they cannot use certain phrases in official documents.
Officials from two HHS agencies, who asked that their names and agencies remain anonymous, told The Washington Post that they had been given a list of "forbidden" words similar to the one given to the Centers for Disease Control (CDC).
A second HHS agency was told not to use the phrases “entitlement,” “diversity” and “vulnerable," in documents. It was also told to use "ObamaCare" as opposed to the "Affordable Care Act" and to refer to "marketplaces," where people purchase health insurance, as "exchanges."
The Post's new report builds on its report Friday that the CDC had been told it could no longer use the phrases "evidence-based” and “science-based" in documents being prepared for the 2019 budget.
The list of “forbidden” words and phrases given to policy analysts at the CDC also included “vulnerable,” “entitlement,” “diversity,” “transgender” and “fetus.”
The HHS Department has pushed back on the first report.
"The assertion that HHS has 'banned words' is a complete mischaracterization of discussions regarding the budget formulation process," HHS spokesman Matt Lloyd told The Hill on Saturday.
"HHS will continue to use the best scientific evidence available to improve the health of all Americans. HHS also strongly encourages the use of outcome and evidence data in program evaluations and budget decisions," the statement continued.
According to The Post, similar guidance on word choice has been issued at the State Department. Employees at the State Department have been told to call sex education as "sexual risk avoidance," which primarily refers to abstinence-only education.
The Trump administration has been repeatedly scrutinized for declining to acknowledge scientific findings, particularly related to climate change. Trump has also repeatedly expressed doubts about the scientific consensus that humans are the main cause of a warming planet. Numerous members of his administration and his appointees have also denied aspects of the scientific consensus related to global warming.
Eff these communists. Carry on Donald.
Wealth transfers = ‘entitlements’
Illegals = ‘immigrants’
2020 = Trump
Terrorists = Moslems
Vulnerable=illegal aliens, junkies, perverts, and welfare leeches.
Without more information about what was said and who said it and where the words can't be used, it is just another Trump bashing article.
Didn’t Obama ban a bunch of words?
Like “terrorist” ?
And I seem to recall the banning of the word “defendant” in criminal documentation.
If you can control the language, you can control ideas. By controlling ideas, you can control the way people think and act.
https://godfatherpolitics.com/whoever-controls-the-language-controls-the-debate/
One of the best things about Trump’s win is that the Press is adversarial again. It should always be so.
Tell them to f*** themselves.
Now that is a nice clear Anglo-Saxon word.
If you can control the language, you can control ideas. By controlling ideas, you can control the way people think and act.
This is so TRUE and is the basis of Alinsky’s Rules for Radicals.
Saul Alinsky’s Rules from Rules for Radicals
Saul Alinsky describes 24 rules in Rules for Radicals. Of those 24 rules, 13 are rules of “power tactics”:
1. “Power is not only what you have but what the enemy
thinks you have.”
2. “Never go outside the experience of your people.”
3. “Wherever possible go outside of the experience of the
enemy.”
4. “Make the enemy live up to their own book of rules.”
5. “Ridicule is man’s most potent weapon.”
6. “A good tactic is one that your people enjoy.”
7. “A tactic that drags on too long becomes a drag.”
8. “Keep the pressure on, with different tactics and
actions, and utilize all events of the period for your purpose.”
9. “The threat is usually more terrifying than the thing
itself.”
10. “The major premise for tactics is the development of
operations that will maintain a constant pressure upon the opposition.”
11. “If you push a negative hard and deep enough it will
break through into its counterside.”
12. “The price of a successful attack is a constructive
alternative.”
13. “Pick the target, freeze it, personalize it, and polarize it.”
The remaining 11 rules Alinsky describes are concerned with “the ethics of means and ends”:
1. “One’s concern with the ethics of means and ends varies inversely with one’s personal interest in the issue … Accompanying this rule is the parallel one that one’s concern with the ethics of means and ends varies inversely with one’s distance from the scene of conflict.”
2. “The judgment of the ethics of means is dependent upon the political position of those sitting in judgment.”
3. “In war the end justifies almost any means.”
4. “Judgment must be made in the context of the times in which the action occurred and not from any other chronological vantage point.”
5. “Concern with ethics increases with the number of means available and vice versa.”
6. “The less important the end to be desired, the more one can afford to engage in ethical evaluations of means.”
7. “Generally success or failure is a mighty determinant of ethics.”
8. “The morality of a means depends upon whether the means is being employed at a time of imminent defeat or imminent victory.”
9. “Any effective means is automatically judged by the opposition as being unethical.”
10. “You do what you can with what you have and clothe it with moral garments.”
11. “Goals must be phrased in general terms like ‘Liberty, Equality, Fraternity,’ ‘Of the Common Welfare,’ ‘Pursuit of Happiness,’ or ‘Bread and Peace.’”
Loretta Lynch:
Clinton non gov emails investigation = “matters”
Meanwhile, the Liberals are trying to ban words such as: boy, girl, mother, father, etc.
Yes, “oversee contingency operations” and “man made disasters” instead of global war on terror (a Bushism) and terrorism.
Too long, we have allowed the liberals and the media to control the language. I'm glad we finally have a President who has the cojones to take control of the language.
These so-called "outlawed" words are all Dog Whistles of the Left. They have no place in official government documents.
The fifth-column leftist media bans the use of “pro-life” and uses “anti-choice” instead.
The “word ban” is in BUDGET material the agencies submit. Got that - BUDGET MATERIAL!! It is not a universal, total ban on any words.
Haha, how great is our President?
Nearly immeasurable.
Thank you for the list.
Grateful PRESIDENT TRUMP rises above Alinsky’s Rules for Radicals. They don’t know how to subdue him. GOD’S hand of protection is on our President.
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