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I guarantee you there’s no job at Google that solely consists of trying to find new language to ban. That’s absurd.

I don't believe I said that is the case. A situation with poor or unintended incentives is not hard to imagine.

1) A team is tasked with providing suggestions to improve emails

2) "Inclusive language" or avoiding potentially insulting language is added as a feature by higher ups

3) The more entries in the "Inclusive language" feature the better the outcome looks to management or it helps meet some arbitrary employee metric (velocity or x issues resolved or similar)

4) More and more entries get added because it is easy to do

Have you never worked in a large company before? These people are everywhere, and breeding like rats!

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