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You're not wrong about the words not being banned, but that's not what the person you're responding to claimed. I'll also note that being flagged for further s
by karaterobot 2y ago
You're not wrong about the words not being banned, but that's not what the person you're responding to claimed.
I'll also note that being flagged for further scrutiny can effectively end a project that requires disbursement of funds in a timely manner. Ask me how I know, and I'll tell you that I was looking for work last week, because the projects I work on would not have been able to pay me next month if the executive order had not been rescinded. This isn't my speculation, it's what we were told by leadership. These projects are not at all DEI-related, but a shotgun approach to halting disbursal until we're convinced otherwise would have caused a lot of projects to go tits up in the interim. Grant-funded science projects generally do not have huge cash reserves to pay employees until the money spigot turns on again. So, applying a filter blacklist can be very destructive, just by creating temporary false positives.