This is a bad precedent. We are seeing companies pre-emptively capitulate to social media outrage from spheres completely outside their own domain. This is not

This is a bad precedent. We are seeing companies pre-emptively capitulate to social media outrage from spheres completely outside their own domain. This is not an act from humanist principles. This is just addressing surface level, visible things that are in no way racist or offensive - until a political environment coerces you to believe it is. Unfortunately, capitulation is good for business. But in the long-term this will be incredibly damaging to the principles of free speech, open discourse, science, and the advancement of technology. In what way is it good for tech companies, research institutes, academic institutions to bend to the forceful compliance of mid-20s liberal arts students who have yet to undertake any real responsibility in society, who have yet to enter into any domain of societal consequence?