Come on. You can’t honestly tell me that “folks” or “y’all” are signs of language policing. I think many Southerners would vehemently disagree with you.
Just look at how their usage is promoted in this thread to defeat supposed evils elsewhere in the language.
What I said is it is a sign of language policing, and that means a sign of the sort of people that like to deliberately misinterpret things so they get to be offended and virtue signal about the response. Normal people, unlike myself, simply shut up as a defence mechanism.
There's actually nothing wrong with the existing generally used words.
I'd be legitimately surprised if you know at this point.