That's an interesting perspective. This ageism makes me think of elderly people (both Black and white) in the 80s who could not seem to stop using the term "colored" to refer to Black people. It was the polite term when they were young and it was hard for them to adjust to Black, which had been up to then an outrageously rude term. I just dismissed them as racist, but thinking back, the people who used it otherwise expressed no animosity in their hearts. Ironic that things have come full circle today and the polite term is "people of color".
To be fair to the woke, sincerely, their hearts really are in the right place generally speaking.They are trying out the ancient idea that language changes thought, and if people speak only correctly they will think only correctly. Of course, it never has worked, will never work, and introduces bad unintended consequences, but the motivation is kind at core.
I really don’t think kindness is the root of this sort of thing. I’ve had the displeasure of working with folks in the past that push this sort of thing and I could hardly describe any of them as kind people, quite the contrary.
To be fair to the woke, sincerely, their hearts really are in the right place generally speaking.They are trying out the ancient idea that language changes thought, and if people speak only correctly they will think only correctly. Of course, it never has worked, will never work, and introduces bad unintended consequences, but the motivation is kind at core.