This seems like a pretty disingenuous representation of the progress made under the pressure to use inclusive language.
When I was young, it was really popular to refer to things via homosexual slurs to show how cool you were. Can you imagine how much trauma such an action imparts on someone who is a part of said slurred out-group when it is widespread and socially accepted?
I think that all social change is imparted through pressure, and the pressure to use language in a fashion minimizing slurring, outcasting, and denigrating structures is important. It's true that in this instance, it may not make sense and may be an intrusion on you and what you feel - and that's okay. It's also important to put the same pressure back that says "this piece of language does not have negative connotations and taking it away is policing free speech".
Surely you see how it can be appropriate or not appropriate to push back given the subject material.
When I was young, it was really popular to refer to things via homosexual slurs to show how cool you were. Can you imagine how much trauma such an action imparts on someone who is a part of said slurred out-group when it is widespread and socially accepted?
I think that all social change is imparted through pressure, and the pressure to use language in a fashion minimizing slurring, outcasting, and denigrating structures is important. It's true that in this instance, it may not make sense and may be an intrusion on you and what you feel - and that's okay. It's also important to put the same pressure back that says "this piece of language does not have negative connotations and taking it away is policing free speech".
Surely you see how it can be appropriate or not appropriate to push back given the subject material.