Wed Apr 12, 2023 – 9:27 am EDT
This article was originally published by the WND News Center.
(WND News Center) — Key scientists in America are now being delivered instructions on what they can say.
To be politically correct, of course.
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Just the News explains it is the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), a federal office, that has imposed “race and gender speech codes” for scientists.
Just the News reports the guide tells workers not to say “blacklist” or “whitelist” and also insists there’s a ban on “using terms that assign a gender to inanimate objects, such as male/female connectors.”
NIST isn’t one of the larger federal bureaucracies, with a budget of $1.65 billion for 2023.
But it joins other federal agencies in putting its attention on, and taxpayer money toward, the ideological agenda of leftists today.
Its scheme instructs scientists that they must avoid identifying an individual’s gender unless necessary for comprehension, and avoid terms that are condescending.
The agenda was recommended to NIST in 2020 by Steven Lipner, of the congressionally authorized Information Security and Privacy Advisory Board.
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