On the marketing campaign path, Trump promised his supporters that he would do his greatest to reverse the progress made by Former President Joe Biden. He has labored exhausting to make good on his promise; Trump’s slew of govt orders attacking variety, fairness, and inclusion initiatives of federal and company ranges is obvious proof of this.
His newest transfer, nonetheless, is a dystopian one: the Trump administration has devised record of banned phrases. The New York Occasions just lately reported a complete of 199 phrases and phrases which might be forbidden within the administration as they proceed their ridiculous “warfare on woke.”
They embody: “Black,” “anti-racism,” “discrimination,” “racial justice,” “variety,” “trauma,” “at-risk,” “minorities,” “underprivileged,” “biased,” “local weather science,” “ladies,” “feminine,” “socioeconomic,” “local weather change” and “cultural heritage.” This isn’t the primary time phrases have been censored throughout a president’s tenure.
In 2021, the New York Occasions reported that the Biden administration removed phrases and phrases like “unlawful alien” and mandated that the phrase “tribal”—in reference to Native People—be spelled with a capital T. Nonetheless, this transfer was in response to Trump’s first time period insurance policies.
Different phrases banned by the Trump administration embody “pregnant particular person,” “equality,” “inequality,” “intercourse,” “gender,” “LGBTQ,” “advocate,” and “institutional.”
The Occasions additionally shared that the record of phrases is most certainly incomplete.
Satirically, Trump and a few of his closest allies—together with billionaire Elon Musk and CEO of X—have insisted that they’re supporters of “free speech.” On Trump’s first day again in workplace, one of many executives orders he signed went towards (what he known as) the Biden’s administration’s suppression of First Modification rights.
“Authorities censorship of speech is insupportable in a free society,” it stated. Sadly, the extent to which Trump’s administration eliminated phrases from authorities web sites and paperwork show in any other case.