Dream Votes: Banned In The USA

Today, I wanted to talk to you because I saw you had written something about the banned words list that Trump put out.

And there's a really nice kind of summary of it on the New York Times website.

But backing up a little bit.

The banned words list is about public-facing government websites here in the U.S. and other, not just websites, but publications and public-facing communications from the U.S. federal government.

They all seem to apply to, for lack of a better word, like woke concepts.

But tell me how you understand it.

So I will add the caveat that I am aware that the creation of the list is effectively a kind of fascist thought crime against various aspects like sociology, psychology, geography, biology.

I'm aware the list is designed explicitly to eradicate the study of what they consider woke, what I consider science.

So when I say this in the caveat, it's because I think this idea is as stupid as it is hateful.

It just immediately smashes into the hard sciences, the physical sciences, which they all claim to adore.

Like every billionaire and rich person and lunatic person says, I could have been a physicist or I could have done physics.

I don't know.

I don't care.

They could have done physics.

They didn't do physics.

It doesn't matter.

Yeah.

Yeah, exactly.

Because like, and as we've seen, like, we've seen examples how like how the word banlist is so stupid, like it catches like Enola Gay as like too woke.

Like, yes, the plane used to drop atomic bombs is woke.

Because it has the word gay in it.

Yeah, yeah.

It's a badly designed, because all these things are badly designed.

There's no way to do these that aren't badly designed.

But if you just apply those words, you do catch a lot of physical sciences, just based on discrimination.