it's very silly that some people tried to create some guidelines to use language, a tool that we all use, in a way that is more precise and less harmful, and a bunch of people were so offended they decided to burn society to the ground and everyone is like "hmmm maybe they had a point though"
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Michael Hobbes
The phenomenon of “leftist language policing” is 99% a product of centrists whining about it constantly. I almost never encounter it in real life and requests for vocabulary updates are typically non-binding guidelines for formal written documents.
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Using a term that is generally preferred by a group to refer to that group is just a matter of respect and not trying to make people feel bad for no reason.
Like, that's the thing. No one has ever been forced to modfiy their private speech. Ever. And very rarely are they forced professionally.