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There is nothing wrong with the word "people", I didn't use it only because I was trying to meet size restrictions and was too dense when I posted this to remem

There is nothing wrong with the word "people", I didn't use it only because I was trying to meet size restrictions and was too dense when I posted this to remember that the word "inmate" exists. All the strange culture war accusations are made even stranger by weird assumptions like this -- I don't know a single human being who has a problem with the word "people". I'm sure someone out there does, but I would conjecture that the vast majority of people -- even the folks you think of when using the word "culture war" -- have no problem with it

lolinder 3y ago
Like I said, I have no issue with people using "folks" as a sub-in for "people", and I wasn't trying to implicate you at all in the rest of my comment. I was just responding to this comment from OP: > People while also all including tends to bring with it the identity war with it. I agree with you that I don't know anyone who has a problem with the word "people", but I do know several people (now including OP) who believe that some people do and make an effort to use "folks" to appease those (as far as I can tell fictional) people.