When the right and others painstakingly undermine good terminology with their own propaganda it devalues the language more than overuse ever could.

I constantly hear from apologists how calling people racist devalues the term, but when it's appropriate there isn't a better term that doesn't open up its own other set of convenience for the perpetrator and wouldn't lead to the same argument. We've all seen how people spin "bigot" and "prejudice".

It's the racist tendencies that have actually been long normalized, not the use of "racist" to describe them. It happens that these events are getting noticed and called out more due to a increasing dissatisfaction with how these elements are handled in our communities. It's absurd to hold the speaker responsible for using the correct terminology "too much". This argument actually silences people. It affords protection to the abuser on a false assumption that just because calling out racism is more common it's not important.

What should change is people should listen and actually consider more closely when something is steeped in racism and look into their own beliefs, taking those events more seriously instead of doubting every occasion until a lynching comes along.

The thought that some here still think Trump isn't racist is extremely troubling, for example. There are many people that will never be affected by his racism claiming away that it's just extreme opportunism when he turns away blacks in his housing complex or makes comments about black beauty pageant contestants. These are blindfolds on people that want to believe anything but that there's racism all around them or that they too can be racist, so much so that certain events are deemed not "racist enough" to afford the word despite being plainly racially motivated.

Racism aside, if climate change can be spun as "politically correct" it's important to challenge when and where these changes in nomenclature take place so we can actually determine if it's valuable to the change dialogue to be more correct or our behavior surrounding those words. For instance, calling someone altright instead of neo-nazi or white supremacists. This is an example before your eyes where people's unwillingness to actually use the more correct words we have actually harmed political understanding.