Yes — but I'd mostly blame that on media framing. Why am I even aware that some random hospital website uses "chestfeed" in its maternal guidance? The right made a deliberate effort to nutpick these anecdotes and centrists played along
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This conversation is making me think that there are two worlds of the “language policing” discussion that are related but not exactly the same: the one about language used externally (like a hospital website etc) and the one about language used in the workplace
The latter is “policed” by corporate HR and subject to many of the same issues as many things governed by corporate HR policies: inconsistency, weaponised use of the issue to actually hit at unrelated issues etc.
even so, it's all media whining that makes it a big deal. like, why is a policy to say "chestfeeding" in the news but not the policy that i can't call myself an employee but have to use any of like a dozen different corporate euphemisms
The thread you’re both commenting on is very much about third or fourth hand accounts of something happening somewhere. Dig deeper and almost always there’s no actual story or what the person did was actually regularly bad.
The problem is people lying about stuff for political gain.
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The problem is people lying about stuff for political gain.