[Linganth] CDC Language ban

[Liz Coville]

I agree with Judy that we need to find out more about how this came to be.
Who said what to who and why.  It seems like there's a lot of information
that hasn't been reported yet, or at least I haven't seen it.  Is it the
words or the topics that arre being prohibited?

Liz

On Sat, Dec 16, 2017 at 5:01 PM, Judith Pine <Judy.Pine at wwu.edu> wrote:

> I’m interested in watching the information come out on this.  At this
> point, my sense is that what may have happened is some bureaucrats, as they
> prepare their budget request, have decided that if they avoid these words
> they will be more likely to get funded, and if they have these words in
> their budget they’ll be less likely to get funded. So it’s a pre-emptive
> sort of thing, not a prohibition coming from the administration but rather
> a bureaucratic strategy to deal with (probably quite accurate) anticipation
> of the administration’s response.
>
>
>
> So this may be an effort to get things funded by re-labelling them without
> changes in content. I think, though, that it is that this strategy will
> backfire, as the labels re-shape the contents and everyone struggles in the
> dark to figure out what they are supposed to be doing. But how do you get
> bureaucrats to avoid “bureaucratic weasel-wording”?
>
>
>
> And if we point out the changed wording and it results in the
> administration and the legislature cutting the funding for the programs,
> where does that get us? Not that weasel-wording is a good thing, but I’m
> not sure pointing it out solves the fundamental problem. Maybe, instead,
> publicize the positive results of programs that use these words, using the
> words in the titles? Ideally, successes in Republican-leaning areas if
> possible?
>
>
>
> -          Judy
>
>
>
> *From:* Linganth [mailto:linganth-bounces at listserv.linguistlist.org] *On
> Behalf Of *Leila Monaghan
> *Sent:* Saturday, December 16, 2017 1:39 PM
> *To:* Galey Modan
> *Cc:* LINGANTH
> *Subject:* Re: [Linganth] CDC Language ban
>
>
>
> One way to fight this “ban on words” might be to publicize every document
> that the CDC publishes with changed words, pointing out the changes.  This
> ruling hampers everything from getting information about the elderly to the
> fight against Zika.
>
>
>
> Leila
>
>
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> On Sat, Dec 16, 2017 at 2:15 PM, Galey Modan <gmodan at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Any ideas how we as an organization might fight this?
>
>
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> 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
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