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You're looking at it too literally.

Enforcing others to change their language is mostly about power. Any feel good explanations of why it needs to change is justification for executing that power.



True, it is about the prerogative of interpretation and to backhandedly assign motivation to someone that uses certain terms to mostly discredit them.

There are some that just mean well, but even then, the method is questionable.




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