Your language policing demands are alien to me. I am pretty much aware of the history of the term but disagree.
I remember the rampant public discussion in Germany about properly naming the disease caused by SARS-CoV-2, denouncing prior examples to name new diseases by their (perceived) country of origin (compared to Syphilis, which was named by the Germans as "French disease", and by the French as "Neapolitan disease" etc.).
Telling people how to talk is just wrong in my opinion.
> Telling people how to talk is just wrong in my opinion.
I don't think it's necessarily wrong, my issue with it is that the policing comes usually with snark. As if only total disgust to a term and a middling aggressive tone will help.
I only got to learn how some terms can be harmful through empathy, and try to apply that when trying to make a point about why I think using term such-and-such wrong. Even then I still reject when someone approaches someone's perceived non-politically correct speech with snark, we should save that for egregious instances of it, not for small slights...
At least in the US, the COVID naming thing was most definitely a political issue. Trump called it the "CHINA-virus" not as a neutral country-of-origin differentiator, but specifically to lay blame on China and to deflect responsibility inside the US for dealing with the disease. I think it was more than appropriate to push back on that term, which was promoted only to redirect outrage away from the Administration.
> Telling people how to talk is just wrong in my opinion
Everyone has their line, though. Not knowing anything about you, I will wager there is some language you were maybe OK with 20 years ago, which you're not cool with today?
