Ok, I'll try again with a less cynical and more engaged response.

> Nobody cares about words being literal and self describing

I care about literal and self describing language, and I believe you are falling prey to the fundamental attribution error -- you believe there is a group of folks driving some agenda.

I look at the suggestion no matter where it comes from and say, "oh hey, yeah, I think that is a good suggestion".

It's not some grand conspiracy to "post hoc justify political activism". Someone just suggested a thing and many of us said, "oh yeah, that makes sense and is easy to change."