Making these words disappear is a disservice to fighting racism (and other culturally ingrained inequality.) To address systemic racism, we need to change peop

Making these words disappear is a disservice to fighting racism (and other culturally ingrained inequality.) To address systemic racism, we need to change people's preconceptions and prejudices. These are things that are picked up and learned from other people in one's environment. Removing these words makes them even more intangible than they already are. Creating prejudice is easy to communicate. Removing it, on the other hand, is an "absence" of something, which is much harder to get across linguistically, semantically and emotionally.