cross-posted from: https://lemm.ee/post/60051791

A leaked memo from the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Research Service division revealed Sunday that the agency has banned some key language from its vocabulary, including the words “climate” and “vulnerable,” as well as the phrase “safe drinking water.”

Other baffling entries on the memo’s banned language list are “greenhouse gas emissions,” “methane emissions,” “sustainable construction,” “solar energy,” and “geothermal,” as well as “nuclear energy,” “diesel,” “affordable housing,” “prefabricated housing,” “runoff,” “microplastics,” “water pollution,” “soil pollution,” “groundwater pollution,” “sediment remediation,” “water collection,” “water treatment,” “rural water,” and “clean water,” among dozens of others.

  • Embargo@lemm.ee
    835·
    3 days ago

    Where’s the line, Americans? I know this has been talked about for months now but they’re banning words, erasing people’s identities, dragging people from their houses for saying genocide is bad, imprisoning innocent people in foreign prison camps. Anyone wanna actually do something or are you waiting for a specific trigger?

    • MagicShel@lemmy.zipEnglish
      8·
      2 days ago

      We don’t all have the same tipping point. Some of us thought violence was necessary before he was even elected. And those were more rightward leaning folks. I think violence is inevitable at this point. But no one wants to be the first to jump in front of the train.

      And too many of us are still thinking this is a political war rather than a class war. Things are going to have to get much worse before they get better. That’s a truism going way back.

    • don@lemm.ee
      235·
      3 days ago

      Too many are just too comfortable for there to be any taking up of actual arms. The younger generations may not care enough yet, and if hit especially hard, may be too apathetic to do anything. It’s going to take a lot more than what we’ve seen so far for them to do anything… which by the time that rolls around, may be laughably too late.

    • 🔍🦘🛎@lemmy.worldEnglish
      4·
      2 days ago

      At the start of the presidency, I determined that my personal Rubicon was “Rounding up trans people into camps” (prompted by this video). I expected outrageous deportations, monstrous as they are. But after the line is crossed, I won’t just be protesting.

  • Gerudo@lemm.ee
    26·
    3 days ago

    Can’t even say clean water? Guess we need to water our crops with sewage than.

  • Mohamed@lemmy.ca
    8·
    2 days ago

    So, what words are allowed? Are there any agricultural terms left for the agriculture department to use?

  • MeaanBeaan@lemmy.world
    81·
    2 days ago

    This is only “baffling” if you’re a total fucking moron who hasn’t been paying attention.

  • IninewCrow@lemmy.caEnglish
    19·
    3 days ago

    A new leadership that was going to remove big government and stop telling people what they can or can’t do

    • Akasazh@feddit.nl
      2·
      2 days ago

      Depending on what your head hurts, reading the article can either help with it or aggravate it.

      If your are confused by a combination of words you never thought about reading in one sentence, it helps of your read the article.

      If your head just over the concept of a governement entity banning words that they feel are uncouth and may not be used, then reading the article and the list of banned words will only worsen your headache.

  • reddig33@lemmy.world
    81·
    3 days ago

    Just need to find synonyms or some other coded language or simply spell it out. Work around these stupid rules.

    • Infinite@lemmy.zipEnglish
      8·
      3 days ago
      • Non-white
      • Differently equal
      • Non-man-woman / etc
      • Sexually spicy

      It’s fun and easy!

      • Evil_Shrubbery@lemm.ee
        7·
        3 days ago

        - clean drinking sewage
        - carbon in-air-ification
        - ultra-fine Barbie vitamins
        - farts
        - gay-o-thermal (not that it means the same as geothermal, it’s just that it’s not on the list & I would try to work it into my publications somehow)