• Flying Squid@lemmy.worldOP
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    17 days ago

    They’re flagging words that have scientific applications that have nothing to do with anything divisive but are also used with things they find divisive. You can’t use “barrier” or “historically” or fucking “polarization.”

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      17 days ago

      Ironically, my primary area of study was Marxist theory with an emphasis on bureaucracy, and those words aren’t on the list. But once again, STEM gets all the attention.

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        16 days ago

        Please explain what is biased about the three words I just listed. What are they biased against, cells, time and magnetism?