Not doing what? Being 100% supportive as stated and addressing people respectfully? Seems strange to express displeasure with a corporate policy about a website by being disrespectful to unrelated individuals.
> Seems strange to express displeasure with a corporate policy about a website by being disrespectful to unrelated individuals.
What are you even going on about? Whom have I disrespected?
Allow me to repeat myself: It’s one thing restrict offensive language but it’s a whole different beast to mandate specific language.
If, e.g., you tell me to not refer to a certain group of folks using a particular racially offensive term, that’s fine and pretty reasonable, but if you tell me that I must refer to a certain group of folks using a term that you or they chose simply because you or they said so, as far as I’m concerned, we’re slowly walking ourselves into a dictatorship. For the first option, I can simply not do anything and avoid being a “bad” person, but for the second option, I’m implicitly a “bad” person if I don’t explicitly do as told (in this case, aka, ordered).
There’s no way I could ever accept that. Nope. No way.
I think the argument boils down to fundamentally restructuring the syntax of our language to the point where pronouns are now individual identity-level constructs. I won't take a position, but I will say that this restructuring is expensive and confuses the hell out of me.
What are you even going on about? Whom have I disrespected?
Allow me to repeat myself: It’s one thing restrict offensive language but it’s a whole different beast to mandate specific language.
If, e.g., you tell me to not refer to a certain group of folks using a particular racially offensive term, that’s fine and pretty reasonable, but if you tell me that I must refer to a certain group of folks using a term that you or they chose simply because you or they said so, as far as I’m concerned, we’re slowly walking ourselves into a dictatorship. For the first option, I can simply not do anything and avoid being a “bad” person, but for the second option, I’m implicitly a “bad” person if I don’t explicitly do as told (in this case, aka, ordered).
There’s no way I could ever accept that. Nope. No way.