amending ‘people’ to demonyms is meant to center the humanity of subjects in speech and engender thought and empathy in writing. the most widespread application is probably ‘people of color’. i think the whole project was well intentioned and has some legit positives, it feels better to write ‘imprisoned people’ instead of criminals or prisoners

but it also rings nauseatingly hollow how corpos and politicals adopted it, they’ll sign off on genocide but use the nice words as if that means anything.