How can anybody actually support the current administration if this sort of thing is what is being pushed. how is this improving the world? how is this better? how is this good?
anyone?
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Some words are good.
Some words are bad.
If maneesh's or your point is that you somehow cannot be against this without also being hypocritical, please check your assumptions. "You're likely doing it yourself" is complete bs.
Yes, of course, it's not a government agency policy. It is a university policy, corporate policy, industry policy, media policy, and so on, and so forth. But it's in no way unprecedented to have those, and I'm not sure what's the big difference here - the policy in question applies to the workers of the agency, just as university policy would apply to the workers of the university.
Obama administration chose not to use words like "radical Islam", "war on terror", "jihadi" and others that were not aligned with their political goals. He also banned words like "Eskimo" and "Aleut" from appearing in federal laws[1], since they are not considered acceptable anymore. Trump administration, of course, has its own policies, but the practice of telling government workers which words they can and can't use is certainly not new.
[1] https://www.adn.com/alaska-news/2016/05/23/obama-signs-measu...