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Found this article in the longreads community arguing why "politically correct" terms shouldn't be used. You guys have any thoughts?

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago

The knee-jerk reaction is understandable, since most prescriptions are of the exclusionary type. And at the same time, since linguists say "we're describing, not prescribing", people create a false opposition between both things. And, well, if description is scientific and good the prescription ends as "unscientific and bad", through that opposition.