Hallelujah!! Can't say enough about how much I agree with this, and given that the author is well-known I hope it gets a lot of press. One of the most bizarre effects of this in the past ~5 years is there are now certain words (and actually not even certain words, certain phonemes) that are simply deemed un-utterable. Never mind the context, never mind if your sentence is actually "<word> is incredibly offensive and should never be directed at another person", never mind if you're actually quoting from a legal document [1], the actual meaning doesn't matter, intent doesn't matter, all that matters is if the sound coming out of your mouth matches the list of forbidden sounds. 10 years ago I would have laughed it off if someone had suggested we would have gone this collectively nuts.
[1] https://www.nytimes.com/2021/05/03/nyregion/Rutgers-law-scho...