Ironically to me, these efforts are to be more inclusive but I can't see any of that. I can see that the purpose is to evoke these discussions, and in that sense the effort to change the language is not pointless: by having these changes adopted the movement can point at successes to show it was taken seriously at least once.
We are at the opposite pendulum swing now.
If I think of other major racial or ethnic conflicts of the recent times (Israel/Palestine, Rohingya in Asia, Balkan genocides, Hutu vs Tutsi, antisemitism, tensions between “original” and “migrant” societies in Europe), none of them are covered by the language being banished here.
Also, the immediate searching for racial undertones in any phrase seems to be a purely American thing.
This makes it also difficult for some people who don't speak English natively to navigate that linguistic minefield.
The world is full of good causes, there are so many no one can probably list them all. Any person can really only care about so many, a small handful. Similarly, some causes we may actually think harmful and actively oppose. For the vast majority, sane people probably think, hmm dunno one way or the other.
By one-sidedly declaring something terms unacceptable, this is an intrusion on my right to not endorse a cause. Basically, I’m forced to stop using some terms, eg if I want to keep using GitHub etc. And I value my right to leave a cause be, neither for nor against, quite highly. Without it, the world descends into groupthink hell.
As others say, you don’t mind this cause, fine. But others may. I find it harmless but utterly pointless, though offensive to reason and history. Yet I feel an effort to shame me into supporting this cause and endorsing it.
Not to mention, at no point can I hear that this is something people of colour want (whatever that even means, it’s not like everyone who is not white thinks the same). It is patronising that a bunch of presumably white guys working in tech decide what is right and what is not, for the world and for PoC.
Not to mention that the whole debacle is essentially about a massive failure of US society, and yet the whole world is made to participate in this spectacle. Dear Americans, please fund schools for poor Black kids, do outreach programs, scholarships, internships, you know, things that will help underrepresented minorities get themselves out of poverty, before you go on an all-guns-blazing crusade to change English language. The clue is in the name, it is not American property, and certainly not the property of a bunch of unelected founders with egos inflated by VC valuations.