That is a good question indeed.
The obvious answer is that bringing politics into the workplace threatens corporations profits and power.
Clearly you don't want your employees to talk about unions, wages, working conditions, etc.
So what if you could get those employees to talk about: sexual identity and pronouns, race, allowed/disallowed vocabulary instead? Wouldn't that be a neat trick?
If you have your employees fight each other, they will be too busy to think in terms of group interests at work and will instead think of their groups outside work (black, gay, etc.)
Some might object that it's such an obvious and blatant strategy. Yet it's fooling almost everyone.
I work in the mining industry, and we're now starting to see giant mining conglomerates -- the ones that cause environmental catastrophes affecting poor people, who in Australia blast old indigenous caves, etc. -- demand their employees and contractors to use "inclusive" language.
Thus you don't say: "our dam collapse destroyed an entire village of _indios_ there!", because that's incredibly racist and prejudiced.
The corrected sentence is: "our dam collapse destroyed an entire village of brave and proud indigenous elders", which is of course way more respectful and inclusive.
So what if you could get those employees to talk about: sexual identity and pronouns, race, allowed/disallowed vocabulary instead? Wouldn't that be a neat trick? If you have your employees fight each other, they will be too busy to think in terms of group interests at work and will instead think of their groups outside work (black, gay, etc.)
Some might object that it's such an obvious and blatant strategy. Yet it's fooling almost everyone. I work in the mining industry, and we're now starting to see giant mining conglomerates -- the ones that cause environmental catastrophes affecting poor people, who in Australia blast old indigenous caves, etc. -- demand their employees and contractors to use "inclusive" language.
Thus you don't say: "our dam collapse destroyed an entire village of _indios_ there!", because that's incredibly racist and prejudiced. The corrected sentence is: "our dam collapse destroyed an entire village of brave and proud indigenous elders", which is of course way more respectful and inclusive.