When Political Correctness began, I warned people not to laugh at it, as they were doing. I fully understood that control of the language was a foot in the door to controlling thought processes, which was the start to completely controlling people.
It was not a joke then and is not a joke now. Fight it in every way possible!
Orwell was right!
You’re right - and I suspect most people can see that now. The attempt to do away with gender pronouns must have sounded alarm bells for even the low-IQ people (if having men break women’s athletic records didn’t).