I've mentioned this in a previous comment, but I see these policies about language control as fundamentally misguided because they assume that changing words ca

I've mentioned this in a previous comment, but I see these policies about language control as fundamentally misguided because they assume that changing words can change the way we think to a significant extent. This is known as the strong Sapir-Whorf hypothesis, and is long considered false by linguists. If you want to change how people think, you must directly convince or teach them to do so. For example, "Mentally retarded" was introduced as a kinder term, and it led to the plain "retarded" that people use as an insult. "Special" went the same way.