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In other words, they're not wrong. Most people are NPCs and words are magic spells to reprogram them. We should harness this power for our benefit, but careful not to become the monster ourselves.
Even if you aren't, having words like "racist", "sexist" and "transphobic" in your vocabulary will affect you as well.
Imagine if there were no term for "racism". You would see people favouring their ingroups and just think "of course, why wouldn't they?" If racism is a concept in your head, you automatically have to categorize it as good or bad, rather than just a part of human interaction.
Same with "homosexual", if that term didn't exist we would think of it as a state of being. There would just be hedonistic sex and procreational sex, and they wouldn't be considered victims, they would be considered decadent.
Watch what you say and what you hear.
You're right. The golem eats everyone in the end.
There's heterosexual 'hedonistic' sex, is the thing with that one, and there always will be, unless you magically remove all contraception off the face of the Earth.