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Don't they know just because you've banned a word, doesn't mean that the item or thing automatically poofs out of existence?
This is that easy. There's a few words I'd love to ban. How about Elmo? And Turd
It makes it harder to pursue science when you cannot use the terns others in ypur field use.
This is a 21st century version of book burning.
This is Project 2025 in action.
Unfortunately, this kind of control of language does work in the long term.
Wiping trans people from existence is easier for them to do when nobody is allowed to talk about them.
It's just the first step. You don't acknowledge they exist on paper or in speech. That makes it much easier to turn against them physically. It's still up in the air whether or not they take the final steps of making their existence illegal. I think they will.
What about Turd Ferguson?