I think it would be nice to have a term that allowed us to distinguish between politely asking that we preserve existing useful lexical distinctions (such as between terrorism ‘non-state violence against civilians intended to delegitimize the state’ and terms like atrocities or war crimes, between selfie ‘photo self-portrait’ and photo portrait), and full-blown ideologically-driven prescriptivism. I do not have a proposal for what this term ought to be.
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