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Banned on Federal Websites [1]

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Date: 2025-04-06

In its war on diversity, equity, and inclusion, the Trump administration has scrubbed what it considers offending words and images from federal websites. The most ridiculous ban was probably pulling a photograph of the Enola Gay, the bomber that delivered the atomic bomb that destroyed Hiroshima at the end of World War II. Apparently the Defense Department search algorithm didn’t like the word “gay.”

The 250-plus words on the federal no-no list include “abortion,” “disability,” “elderly,” “LGBTQ,” “Native American,” “Gulf of Mexico,” and women. The Trump administration must figure if they ban the words they can ban the idea and people. Someone in the Trump administration must have read the dystopian novel 1984 by George Orwell in college and thought it was meant as a guide for good government.

A Trump spokesperson claimed that the White House had not promulgated a list of banned words but left it to federal agencies to decide how to comply with executive orders designed to eliminate diversity, equity, and inclusion programs. Republicans in the House or Senate, or even Republican college students, might be dismayed to learn that some federal websites have dropped the word “sex.” It is not clear if the word or the act is supposed to be banned. Some websites have also dropped the words woman and women. I leave the connection up to your own imagination.

In response to the DEI directive, the National Parks Service revised its Underground Railroad website so it no longer features Harriet Tubman and the introduction describes it as a civil rights movement and doesn’t mention slavery.

Below is a list of some of the banned words identified by Pen America. It is not clear how the Trump administration plans to celebrate the 250th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence without using some of these words. “Equal,” “justice,” and “political” did appear in the document.

As a challenge, how many banned words can you use in one sentence? This is my effort.

The gay Hispanic female woman rejected vaccines and being considered a victim, underprivileged, or a person with a disability because of her peanut allergy and preferred to be called Latinx because she rejected racism, segregation, implicit bias and other traumatic stereotypes, however she did like sex and used science-based birth control to avoid having an abortion and did not mind being identified as an antiracist political feminist for social justice who believes in equality, equity, and inclusion, smokes marijuana, and lives near the Gulf of Mexico.

PARTIAL LIST OF BANNED WORDS

Abortion; accessible; accessibility; activism; anti-racism; antiracist; at risk; autism; barrier; bias; Black; clean energy; climate crisis; climate science; community; continuum; Covid-19; cultural differences; cultural heritage; DEI; disability; discrimination; disparity; diverse; diversity; equality; equity; elderly; environmental justice; ethnicity; evidence-based; female; feminism; fetus; fluoride; gay; gender; gender based; Gulf of Mexico; ideology; immigrants; implicit bias; inclusion; inequality; injustice; institutional; hate speech; Hispanic; Latinx; LGBT and LGBTQ; marginalized; marijuana; measles; mental health; minority; multicultural; Native American; obesity; opioids; oppression; peanut allergies; polarization; political; pollution; prejudice; privilege; promote; pronoun; pronouns; prostitute; race; racial identity; racism; science-based; segregation; sex; social justice; stereotypes; transgender; trauma; traumatic; unconscious bias; underprivileged; underrepresented; vaccines; victims; woman; women

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