> Another thing; even though this effort might be doomed to fail, do you think there are good reasons to attempt to change language in such a way?

I'm not categorically against it. I'm not in the right country to properly judge "master/slave". Those words have no association with people to me. But I don't care about "master/slave".

Though I can't find it now, I remember encountering cases where actually "blocklist" was a less descriptive term, even misleading.

I think it's great even though "crewed" is a terrible word, I can't think of a better one, and it's good to change away from "manned".

I'm perfectly willing to surrender the word "niggardly".

So it depends.

Banning words like "ninja", "dojo", "white glove treatment", "blind"... like... really?

What I think is doomed to fail is banning any language that involves color.

I'd say some words are in a "grey area", but I've seen people wanting to ban that term.

Mandating language like this is double plus ungood.