I was shocked and incensed to read in The Mercury News that the Trump administration has gone on a word-based witch hunt against vocabulary. The Trumpsters banned the use of the following words by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention as well as other departments within the Health and Human Services Department: vulnerable, entitlement, diversity, transgender, fetus, evidence-based and science-based. Is this not abridging the freedom of speech? Or is it legal for an administration to ban the use of such common words as vulnerable, fetus, and science-based.
Banning words is not far from burning books. I worry that, under the present administration, our society and our country are devolving.
Pauline Chand
San Jose
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