If I had a limp resulting from a car crash, would this be a fault of my own? If I were driving? If I struck another car from behind? If I drove off a bridge? If my name were Thelma?

'Just asking questions' as they say on TV.

>some of the words make sense as their current meaning is pejorative and derogatory e.g. “cripple”, however some are simply a statement of fact and thus ridiculous e.g. “addict”

I disagree with your contention. I also see "cripple" as a statement of fact. Others may see "addict" as pejorative. "Addict" is certainly pejorative when Tucker Carlson uses it. Not pejorative when the leader of the local AA chapter does.

"Idiot" was, supposedly, a medical term at some point. Then, it was probably a heavy slur the way "retarded" is now. Currently, "idiot" is pretty tame. Certainly would generally be considered more acceptable than "retarded."

In other words: language is a slippery beast, something that has no fixed interpretation. Much of meaning is super contextual. Just as one is advised against assuming someone's pronouns, why are we assuming people's intent with lists like this?

We should be able to look at how we are using language and identify that it is problematic without requiring a list of words.

Yup! I think that humans are so heterogeneous that basically everything requires a context to derive the full meaning of a thing. The same language, wielded in two different occasions, can have vastly different meanings.

As a linguistics professor once mentioned:

"Time flies like an arrow, but fruit flies like an apple, although if the play is bad enough, even fruit flies like an arrow."