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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.

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[–] IAmNorRealTakeYourMeds@lemmy.world 26 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

wake up babe, new politically correct has dropped

literally PC culture gone mad

[–] BarneyPiccolo@lemmings.world 7 points 8 hours ago (1 children)

And we should definitely call it "Politically correct" speech, because that's what it is. They liflke to accuse the left of being politically correct, so let's turn it back on them.

This is literally politically correct, although it is also literally Orwellian.