> Aren't all these attempts at policing the language precisely what the
critics objected to as political correctness? I'm not sure any of us is
in a position to 'retire' language that is in use.<
given the thread began with the same people claiming that identity politics was a pragmatic necessity who now claim certain words should be removed from our lexicon (identity politics, political correctness), perhaps the issue is not so much that they are being 'retired from use' as being removed from criticism and discussion?
Angela _________