The List of Trump’s Forbidden Words That Will Get Your Paper Flagged at NSF. It's fascism, plain and simple.
https://gizmodo.com/the-list-of-trumps-forbidden-words-that-will-get-your-paper-flagged-at-nsf-2000559661
« It is a three word list? Fascism, plain and simple? I get why fascism made the list, but why plain and simple? » (Abbott and Costello, authors of "Who's on first?)
@ErikJonker this is one of the most outrageous retrograde things I've seen in ages.
For all of us that have been pushing diversity and inclusion, this is a slap on the face.
At least I live in Europe.
@ErikJonker
That sounds doubleplusgood!
Eveline Sulman 
@ErikJonker what can we, Europeans, do with that last? I thought about putting it under every one of my e-mails to remind all my contacts of the words, but will it have any effect?
We can use the words, the topics, talk about it, write about it: https://steadyhq.com/en/naturematchcuts/posts/00aabadd-63c5-4f3d-93a9-e93ebda61377
@ErikJonker I assume the same should be expected about the future of archive.org?
@ErikJonker I mean, of course the list is biased, but its kinda funny that you cannot point at the bias of the list without being flagged by the NSF system. It feels like "lets dismantle anything that tries to propose an argument against what we do" type of thing
Going through the list is absurd and sad
@chaosresearchparty @ErikJonker At least, treason, pitchfork and guillotine aren't on the list.
If I were wishing to resist this nonsense, I'd be running all those papers through a search and inserting zero-width spaces into all the trigger words at random indices. The same crap they do to watermark documents to catch leakers, but turned around on them to stop a simple search finding their snowflake melters.
@dr_barnowl @ErikJonker Nice idea, but Unicode will be banned next.
It's a rather inclusive concept, if you think about it.
@ErikJonker freedom of speech... For me not people that are using too complex words...
Fascism with a suit…
@ErikJonker So, my paper refers to a device with bipolar transistors and the odd female connector... LEts go somewhere else to work with electronics...
@pa27 same problems with biodiversity and divers plant sex. @ErikJonker
@ErikJonker oh fuck him. performative dumbness to please his puppet masters and the rubes. he believes nothing, and does what is expedient in the moment
@ErikJonker isn't the freeze peach thing supposed to protect people exactly from this kind of government censorship?
#FBPE Seeing that flow chart someone drew up, and I'm thinking this is the banality of evil.
@ErikJonker Another thing they’re looking for is, if research addresses women’s health or the health of any vulnerable group (by race or another social characteristic), it is supposed to also do the same thing for white men. They’re saying it’s discrimination and that white men’s issues aren’t being given fair attention. 
As if the entire history of medical research wasn’t already for the benefit of white men.
@heartofcoyote Worse: it includes eugenics. They don't want health for all.
@ErikJonker This is just plain laziness. They think they can make a mess with their clumsiness and theft of data instead of actually forming arguments responding to these concepts. Our response can include using these keywords and ideas, thus giving these concepts more agency.
#women #gender #climate #equality #lgbtq #trans
