Besides the fact that equity language makes your writing "mushy", my biggest problem is that it alienates part of your audience, including potential allies.
In the mid 2010's America tried to become "too woke, too fast" and the backlash inflicted trump and proud boys and a whole lot of socio-political conflict upon the country.
Equity language has the same polarizing effect. There are good smart decent honest people who are immediately turned off when they get bombarded with these semantic shenanigans.
In the mid 2010's America tried to become "too woke, too fast" and the backlash inflicted trump and proud boys and a whole lot of socio-political conflict upon the country.
Equity language has the same polarizing effect. There are good smart decent honest people who are immediately turned off when they get bombarded with these semantic shenanigans.