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The post Xitter web has spawned soo many āesotericā right wing freaks, but thereās no appropriate sneer-space for them. Iām talking redscare-ish, reality challenged āculture criticsā who write about everything but understand nothing. Iām talking about reply-guys who make the same 6 tweets about the same 3 subjects. Theyāre inescapable at this point, yet I donāt see them mocked (as much as they should be)
Like, there was one dude a while back who insisted that women couldnāt be surgeons because they didnāt believe in the moon or in stars? I think each and every one of these guys is uniquely fucked up and if I canāt escape them, I would love to sneer at them.
apparent list of forbidden words in nsf grants
https://elk.zone/mathstodon.xyz/@sc_griffith/113947483650679740
āDe <space> colonizedā is also on there, that will give some interesting problems when automated filters for this hit Dutch texts (De means the).
E: there are so many other words on there like victim, and unjust, and equity, this will cause so many dumb problems. And of course if you go on the first definition of political correct (āyou must express the party line on certain ideas or be punishedā) they created their own PC culture. (I know pointing out hypocrisy does nothing, but it amuses me for now).
@sc_griffith
Apparently āTraumaā is banned. Thatās going to be a problem.
This is what happens when you give power to bigoted morons.
@sc_griffith
Note: Theyāre all problems. Just āTrauma" is kind of extra-important because of its use as a medical term.
Trauma surgery, Barotrauma, Traumatic Brain Injury, Penetrating Trauma, Blunt Trauma, Abdominal Trauma, Polytrauma, Etc.
Victim and Unjust are also there, which lawyers prob love to never be able to use.
I donāt think āvictimā is really a word thatās even used especially much in āwokeā (for a lack of a good word) writing anyway. Hell, even for things like sexual violence, āsurvivorā is generally preferred nomenclature specifically because many people feel that āvictimā reduces the personās agency.
Itās the rightoid chuds who keep accusing the āwokesā for performative victimhood and victim mentality, so I suppose thatās why they somehow project and assume that āvictimā is a particularly common word in left-wing vocabulary.
Good point, had not even thought of that. Shows how badly they are at understanding the people they are against. Reminds me how they went, a while back going after the military for actually reading the āwokeā literature. Only the military was doing it explicitly so they would understand their enemies, so they could stop them.
@Soyweiser
Iām not sure lawyers file for many NIH grants, but āvictim" probably comes up in medical/science research. Pathology would be one possibility.
I was already assuming the pc word list would spread to other subjects.
@Soyweiser
A quick pubmed search finds NIH such supported research as:
"In 2005 the genome of the 1918 influenza virus was completely determined by sequencing fragments of viral RNA preserved in autopsy tissues of 1918 victimsā
Insights on influenza pathogenesis from the grave. 2011, Virus Research
"death of the child victimā
Characteristics, Classification, and Prevention of Child Maltreatment Fatalities. 2017 Military Medicine
Etc
@sc_griffith
"Gender Neuralā
That typo is probably going to screw a lot of Neuroscience grants just because itāll match on some dumb regex.
Also, apparently Hispanic and Latino people donāt exist?