<div dir="ltr"><div>Hi everyone and thanks, Galey for this suggestion!</div><div><br></div>Has anyone documented the practice of banning words in their many forms in the US? From Marxist concepts to indigenous languages to censorship? And other examples ... no doubt. Perhaps build a momentum against censorship as a means of countering this madness by valorising language.<div><br></div><div>The idea of publicizing the intended wording of texts could prove provocative ... maybe someone will come up with a few texts beforehand to arouse social media to make noise ... #TrumpDiscoversSpelling, for example. </div><div><br></div><div>Personally, I'm getting tired of the Trump slamming -- I find it distracting from the fact that the GOP attack on the peoples of the world was not set into this whirling motion by a gold-blinded imbecile. Even though he does add fuel.</div><div><br></div><div>Most of the promising attacks on the current administration are in the polls or in the courts. But I would love to partake in an action created by another anthropologist linguist :) Please let me know if you hear of any.<br></div><div><br></div><div>Writing from France, originally from the rural South, </div><div>Yours in Solidarity,</div><div><br></div><div>Catharine Mason</div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sat, Dec 16, 2017 at 10:15 PM, Galey Modan <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:gmodan@gmail.com" target="_blank">gmodan@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div>Any ideas how we as an organization might fight this?</div><div><br></div><a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/health-science/cdc-gets-list-of-forbidden-words-fetus-transgender-diversity/2017/12/15/f503837a-e1cf-11e7-89e8-edec16379010_story.html?utm_term=.ad1d1b951b0d" target="_blank">https://www.washingtonpost.<wbr>com/national/health-science/<wbr>cdc-gets-list-of-forbidden-<wbr>words-fetus-transgender-<wbr>diversity/2017/12/15/f503837a-<wbr>e1cf-11e7-89e8-edec16379010_<wbr>story.html?utm_term=.<wbr>ad1d1b951b0d</a><br></div>
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