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In our recently submitted grants we had to change “traumatic brain injury” to “concussive brain injury” and “male and female mice” to “male and non-male mice” because traumatic and female are now verboten words that can get our grants killed. It’s insanity.
These idiots will learn one day that you can't kill an idea.
Orwell would disagree, unfortunately.
Fortunately, he's not a historian.
But he’s got lived experience of totalitarianism. Of rhetorical practices states use to crush ideas.
Epistemically he’s very qualified to comment on this.
And academics who you might call historians, like Foucault, would back him up here.
I'm talking about learning like Hitler did in a bunker.
But you can kill mice! Presumably with a little box and a miniature, spring-loaded boxing glove stored inside
You have more hope than me that nazis can change.
Oh, I never said that...
Learning implies change
I'm trying to not fedpost. I'm inferring about learning like Mussolini.
But they can defund ideas and watch them fade to obscurity under a flood of fascist bullshit and violence.