So I am curious how this comment will go, but I suspect this might be an unpopular take. A while ago there was a concentrated effort by the right in the US to “regain” the mind space of universities, towards ideas of the alt-right and traditional right like protecting foetuses etc. Since then I have been noticing an uptick of articles attempting to polarise and raise outrage against the “radical left” with one major avenue of attack being these “language initiatives”. I’ve also noticed an uptick of false flag operations with certain academics of questionable intellect and pedigree.. being pushed past the edge into rather harmful attempts to purge otherwise harmless language, or to express other “extreme views” while trying to identify them selves as left. To someone who has mostly viewed them self as a rational and somewhat left leaning intellectual this is exhausting. Frankly these days I do my best to hide from both the new right, and the polarised and misguided people that think they are left wing.