All this speech-policing is only empowering the wrong kind of people. Personally I never even made a connection to race when using words like 'blacklist'. Allow

All this speech-policing is only empowering the wrong kind of people. Personally I never even made a connection to race when using words like 'blacklist'. Allowing activists to decide which words are improper or not-inclusive makes communication like walking through a minefield. I live in Germany, public communication in Academia has become unreadable at times with application of 'inclusive' speech and 'proper' pronouns. Remember this story? https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2013/03/how-dongle-jokes-got-two-people-fired-and-led-to-ddos-attacks/ https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2013/03/how-dongle-jokes... It won't stop with 'blacklist' or 'whitelist'. How many people stopped contributing to open source projects because the "Code of Conduct"-politicos (on a powertrip) started to politicize everything and harassing anyone that is not 100% politically aligned until they left?