They're flagging words that have scientific applications that have nothing to do with anything divisive but are also used with things they find divisive. You can't use "barrier" or "historically" or fucking "polarization."

[–] thesohoriots@lemmy.world 10 points 10 months ago

Ironically, my primary area of study was Marxist theory with an emphasis on bureaucracy, and those words aren’t on the list. But once again, STEM gets all the attention.

[–] TowardsTheFuture@lemmy.zip 4 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Talking about REMOVING BIAS from your scientific study? How DARE you.

[–] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 5 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

Please explain what is biased about the three words I just listed. What are they biased against, cells, time and magnetism?

[–] curbstickle@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

Bias is a banned word, thats what they were pointing out.

Edit: In specific

biased
biased toward
biases
biases towards

[–] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 4 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Oh, I see. Thank you.

[–] curbstickle@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Considering the down votes they got, I don't think you were the only person to take what they said differently, the conservatives out there are really fucking up even basic communication with this crap.

[–] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 3 points 10 months ago

Very much so.