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FROM: DEPARTMENT OF STATE · SUBJ: APPROVED TERMINOLOGY · NFATC

America's diplomats were instructed to replace the term "illegal alien" with "undocumented person" — to avoid the implication that illegal aliens do not belong in the U.S.

The same vocabulary list warned against "white privilege" and "male privilege."

One line on a training list. Further down the same list, officers were practising how to discuss systemic racism in Bengali and Urdu, which is a real thing that a real budget paid for.