if you're attempting to go full reductive logic, this statement: > No one who ever mentioned the term "cargo cult" is endorsing oppression or promoting rapists

if you're attempting to go full reductive logic, this statement: > No one who ever mentioned the term "cargo cult" is endorsing oppression or promoting rapists, corruption, racists, or any nonsense of this sort. doesn't work, as you don't have sources for that. > No one who uses it is even holding in mind anything related to Melanesia. Which is the whole point of the article, to give you background. In the same way that some newspapers have listed "rawdogging" as one of their words of the year, saying "oh its ok you can use this" but neatly forgets to mention what the word _still_ means to a sizeable number of people. > figures out how to frame your own PC term as oppressive. It's exhausting. Come on. oppressive? The entire world of corporations is oppressive. You need to conform to not be fired. The "In" words change all the time. The list of banned phrases changes monthly. thats normally down to the whims of just a small bunch of people in the c-suite. If you transgress, you're yeeted out. That is oppression, not voluntarily reading article that makes you sad.