The Banned CDC List is Religious Right Terrorism (JOHN PAVLOVITZ)

[icymist]

Donald Trump has reportedly banned the CDC from using the following words in their policies, budgets, and communications:

Evidence-based
Science-based
Fetuses
Transgender
Vulnerable
Entitlement
Diversity

This is not exactly true.

This is not Donald Trump’s handiwork.
He is not the author of this list.
He isn’t smart enough to come up with a combination of words so perfectly synchronized to hurt and silence marginalized people.
Only Evangelicals can do that.

As a Christian and twenty-year pastor, one who’s served for much of that time in the American Bible Belt—the list is eerily familiar.

It’s the extreme Evangelical Christian Right’s signature mix tape, the careful curated playlist they’ve had on heavy rotation in their indie gatherings for the past 60 years—only now it’s getting wide release, thanks to the monster they’ve aligned with; one who’s perfectly happy to disseminate it to keep their union intact.

https://johnpavlovitz.com/2017/12/16/banned-cdc-list-religious-right-terrorism/

[no_hypocrisy]

1. Dept of Defense did something similar in the 60s.

DOD changed the language of status of soldiers to "battle fatigue" when in fact they had suffered mental breakdowns in Vietnam. The "rationale" was that if the military of North Vietnam discovered how many US soldiers were having breakdowns in the field, NV would be emboldened towards victory. So the sham was maintained. And worse, as the US soldiers had become disabled and had to be removed back to US Mainland veterans' hospitals, they weren't treated for their mental breakdowns. The charade continued into the wards of Walter Reed, etc. and they were literally treated for battle fatigue, a syndrome that suggested with enough rest, these soldiers would be back on their feet and ready to return to the war theater in Vietnam.

My friend, Tony, went through this. He had PTSD for decades before the VA actually approved the correct treatment for him. Every night, nightmares. He figured out by reading medical articles that he had suffered a nervous breakdown during Operation Hastings. (He was only two survivors in a platoon of 24 where they were unknowingly sent out as "bait" for the NV with a larger ring of US military that would surround the NV. It didn't obviously didn't end well.