In a corporate environment you do have an investigation department that enforces such language.
However, my point is that in a totalitarian environment people treated you as a pariah for non conforming, as they would not want to face a similar fate. This is a similarity to the taboo of advocating against such an ideology.
about the examples, if you would take extreme slurs against minorities, these are not used in a professional environment already so they are never these that are discussed
The words that are discussed are such that are established for a different connotation. that connotation is completely metaphorical and does not carry any real insult, yet some insist on literalizing those, or finding hidden meanings
Snitching on your neighbors to the state secret police because they criticized the state is not a bottom-up movement. It is possible only when there is a coherent, centralized state agenda.
There are no woke police. There is no woke Stalin. The analogy is utterly inapplicable here.
> the real insulting words are never these that debated.
I'm curious about this, do you have some examples?