Speech standards have never been set by "reason, evidence and a scientific mindset". The people who are complaining now that the shoe is on the other foot were

Speech standards have never been set by "reason, evidence and a scientific mindset". The people who are complaining now that the shoe is on the other foot were quite happy when it was their side setting the rules. Objective standards would be best, but subjective standards that you pretend are objective are far worse than subjective standards that are honest about it.