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Re:Stanford's “Elimination of Harmful Language” Initiative by andrepd on Tuesday December 20, 2022 @09:48AM (#34066601)
It's virtue signalling. Talk to actual people from indigenous communities, they're probably more concerned about actual problems affecting communities than whether someone says "bury the hatchet". Talk to a blind activist association, they're more likely concerned about the unwalkability of public spaces than the usage of the phrase "blind review".

It's mostly white, mostly affluent people, competing in the political sensitivity olympics, probably without even realising they're harming the very causes they claim to fight for.

Re:Stanford's “Elimination of Harmful Language” Initiative by wazoox on Tuesday December 20, 2022 @10:17AM (#34067027)
Yup, I think it's pretty well-known by now that only white, affluent, powerful people doing virtue signalling use "Latinx" for instance, and that this very word is rejected as meaningless, stupid and/or offensive and condescending by the vast majority of "Latinx" people.

https://www.nbcnews.com/think/opinion/many-latinos-say-latin...