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> This belief that controlling how people speak will somehow make the world a better place seems somewhat quixotic.

100% agree. The way we talk, I think, matters. The stories we tell ourselves help shape us. But so does it matter how we try to change it.

Forcing/controlling the way people speak is a remedy worse than the malady 97% of the time, and certainly in the present case.

(Also, it is reasonable that you would interpret my suggestion as an attempt to control, given some elements of the current political climate)

Another example of a poorly told story that worries me: https://www.theguardian.com/books/2020/may/09/the-real-lord-...




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