That's not how this stuff works, at all. Once something becomes an automated suggestion, see Slack bots gently suggesting you don't use a certain expression ad nauseam, it de facto becomes a standard.
People start to wonder why you couldn't just follow a "commonly accepted best practice" and instead you went out of your way to insist on terminology that is now considered insensitive, hurtful, harmful.
People start to wonder why you made that conscious choice. What does that say about you? Are you a bigot? Do you harbor hatred for those harmed by such language? Are you making a political statement? Why can't you just do what you're suggested? It's only a click away after all.
>People start to wonder why you made that conscious choice. What does that say about you? Are you a bigot? Do you harbor hatred for those harmed by such language? Are you making a political statement? Why can't you just do what you're suggested? It's only a click away after all.
And such folks can ask me what I meant or they can just fuck right off. Even if that means a few parting barbs from such folk or even a coordinated campaign to damage my reputation.
I have no control over what other people think, do or say, other than to speak my mind as well.
As Justice Brandeis put it[0] nearly a hundred years ago:
If there be time to expose through discussion the
falsehood and fallacies, to avert the evil by the
process of education, the remedy to be applied is
more speech, not enforced silence.
People start to wonder why you couldn't just follow a "commonly accepted best practice" and instead you went out of your way to insist on terminology that is now considered insensitive, hurtful, harmful.
People start to wonder why you made that conscious choice. What does that say about you? Are you a bigot? Do you harbor hatred for those harmed by such language? Are you making a political statement? Why can't you just do what you're suggested? It's only a click away after all.