After banning world-famous paintings from Facebook because they dared show a breast, a few well-off engineers and product managers will now pick which English words should remain, and which should be let go.
How nice of them. Don’t know what we’d do without them.
I'd like to give some examples, but I fear I'd end up swiftly banned for even using some of the best examples.
One interesting case is "idiots, imbeciles and morons" - once technical terms to describe a mental health scale. The 'most insulting' end of the scale is now probably the most acceptable word to use in public!
Cmon man, there's a big difference between the natural evolution of language and some radical-run company forcibly jamming their desired changes down our throats through an instantaneous and global software update.
However, personally I'm pretty sure that the US is overdoing it.
https://www.economist.com/international/2021/06/12/social-me...
Issues with breasts aren't exactly a new thing in the US, just ask Janet Jackson.
And this quote, from the wikipedia article, sums it all quite well:
> "I know many people in other countries are scratching their heads and thinking 'What in the world is the big fuss over there?'"