“In its older, more literal sense, “profanity” refers to a lack of respect for things that are held to be sacred.”
While I don’t believe that the meaning of words can never change, I am coming to the conclusion that some purity is in order here an antidote to the practice of marxists to make words mean universally whatever they want them to mean, i.e. they set the meaning of words no the original utterers of those words. The opposite of relativism is absolutism. Apply principles of equity to the exhortation “all leftists who twist the meaning of words to attain a political end should be shot.”