{"id":1920,"date":"2023-04-06T04:18:39","date_gmt":"2023-04-06T04:18:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/?p=1920"},"modified":"2023-04-06T05:02:20","modified_gmt":"2023-04-06T05:02:20","slug":"feds-create-race-gender-speech-codes-for-scientists","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/?p=1920","title":{"rendered":"Feds Create Race & Gender Speech Codes For Scientists"},"content":{"rendered":"

This post originally appeared at https:\/\/www.wisconsinrightnow.com\/race-gender-speech-codes\/<\/a><\/p>\n

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\u201cAvoid identifying an individual\u2019s gender unless necessary for comprehension, or using terms that assign a gender to inanimate objects, such as male\/female connectors.\u201d<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

The National Institute of Standards and Technology, a federal and science technology office, has made race and gender speech codes for its scientists a top priority.<\/p>\n

The guidance, for example, tells federal employees not to use the words \u201cblacklist\u201d or \u201cwhitelist\u201d because of the racial connotations and also cautions against \u201cusing terms that assign a gender to inanimate objects, such as male\/female connectors.\u201d<\/p>\n

The NIST is a little-known government agency tasked with helping the U.S., among other things, stay technologically ahead of rivals like China. Congress appropriated about $1.65 billion for the group for 2023.<\/p>\n

Lawmakers recently hammered<\/a><\/strong> the Pentagon for investing heavily in critical race theory and gender ideology. The National Institutes of Health has done so<\/a><\/strong> as well, along with other agencies.<\/p>\n

The NIST is one of many federal agencies putting its attention and taxpayer funds into these efforts as it struggles to keep pace with its key mission. The NIST sparked controversy for its \u201cInclusive Language Guidance,\u201d which tells scientists which words or phrases they can or cannot use in reports.<\/p>\n

From the document:<\/p>\n

\u2013 Consider that biased terms, such as blacklist\/whitelist, also may introduce comprehension issues.<\/em><\/p>\n

\u2013 Avoid terms such as master\/slave that perpetuate negative stereotypes or unequal power relationships.<\/em><\/p>\n

\u2013 Avoid identifying an individual\u2019s gender unless necessary for comprehension, or using terms that assign a gender to inanimate objects, such as male\/female connectors.<\/em><\/p>\n

\u2013 Avoid descriptive terms that are condescending or reductive in favor of language that the groups being described would prefer.<\/em><\/p>\n

Steven Lipner, chair of the Congressionally authorized Information Security and Privacy Advisory Board, sent a letter to NIST in 2020 recommending the whitelist and blacklist changes as well as the changes for master and slave usage.<\/p>\n

\u201cMany technology and security standards contain racially insensitive language that is both offensive to many of our colleagues and is also, in many respects, ambiguous \u2013 technically and culturally,\u201d the letter said. \u201cExamples of such language include using the terms blacklist and whitelist instead of block-list and allow-list and using the terms master and slave.\u201d<\/p>\n

Jennifer Huergo, a spokesperson for NIST, told The Center Square the guidance \u201cwas created primarily for the benefit of NIST staff experts who participate in the development of documentary standards as expert collaborators and leaders.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cUse of inclusive language helps to avoid potential gaps in understanding that could arise from the use of colloquial or idiomatic expressions that are rooted in particular historical events or regional dialects,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n

The NIST\u2019s DEI office also promotes liberal ideas around gender and sexuality. The DEI staff page features the preferred pronouns of its employees as the first priority in the bios.<\/p>\n

The issue has regularly been thrust into the forefront because while Americans are largely split on the debate over gender identity and critical race theory, federal agencies have largely embraced it and put millions of taxpayer dollars behind it.<\/p>\n

A Pew Research report<\/strong><\/a> released last summer found that while most Americans say there is discrimination against transgender people, \u201c60% say a person\u2019s gender is determined by their sex assigned at birth, up from 56% in 2021 and 54% in 2017.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n

The NIST speech code also links to the American Psychological Association\u2019s webpage on \u201cbiased language,\u201d which goes on at length about the myriad of possible genders, and the need to cater to them.<\/p>\n

\u201cTransgender is used as an adjective to refer to persons whose gender identity, expression, and\/or role does not conform to what is culturally associated with their sex assigned at birth,\u201d APA says. \u201cSome transgender people hold a binary gender, such as man or woman, but others have a gender outside of this binary, such as gender-fluid or nonbinary. Individuals whose gender varies from presumptions based on their sex assigned at birth may use terms other than \u2018transgender\u2019 to describe their gender, including \u2018gender-nonconforming,\u2019 \u2018genderqueer,\u2019 \u2018gender-nonbinary,\u2019 \u2018gender-creative,\u2019 \u2018agender,\u2019 or \u2018two-spirit,\u2019 to name a few.\u201d<\/p>\n

The taxpayer-funded speech guidelines also quote racial theory from a book written by Tukufu Zuberi, a professor of Race Relations and Sociology at the University of Pennsylvania steeped in critical race theory. The book is titled \u201cWhite Logic, White Methods.\u201d Zuberi also penned an article titled, \u201cCritical Race Theory: A Commemoration.\u201d<\/p>\n

While the U.S. is a world leader in developing intellectual property, it lags behind in the ability to manufacture it. For example, the source of electric batteries, seen as the future of the green energy movement, is largely overseas. In fact, China made about three-quarters of the world\u2019s lithium-ion batteries in 2021, while the U.S. made only 7%.<\/p>\n

Casey Harper
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