The problem with forcing uniform speechis it stifles debate and discussion. It makes everything Disney-esque.

It's also very Amero-centric. "Fag" and "faggot" in British English have different meanings (cigarette and food type) to US English (gay). The equivalent of "retard" is proably "spastic". The word "nigger" doesn't have as big a taboo in the UK as it does in the US. An equivalent here would probably be "Paki". Yet Reddit will delete and ban you for using th US english words but not the Brit-English ones.

It's why you end up with idiots claiming you should say "Latinx" instead of "Latino" because it's gendered.

You also end up with idiotic self-censoring by people saying "unalive" instead of suicide. It becomes comical that you're basically translating all this bullshit flowery language in your head to normal speech.

George Carlin as so often is the case makes the point better than I do: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o25I2fzFGoY

"I don't like words that hide the truth. I don't like words that conceal reality".

I'm Therevadan Buddhist but have studied quite a bit of Zen and there's an idea within Zen to break down the abstraction layer that language places on the world to get to REALITY. Doing this helps you see reality for what it is.

What I see Reddit's language sanitisation as is placing further abstraction on top oof what's already abstract.