The weird thing (it’s still ok to use “weird,” right?) is that this stuff isn’t new. Similar language-policing claims were made in the 1990s. People, including good liberals, laughed at them. Why does this nonsense wield so much power now? https://twitter.com/mattyglesias/status/1019965243668262913 …
This is phoney and insincere. It’s a means to manipulate people into political positions using their politeness as a weapon against them. Language should reveal, not conceal. If you are forbidden to describe in your way then another person has power over you. “Live not by lies.”