Definitely agree with this sentiment: "There is nothing wrong in trying to eradicate these minor problems, one may say. Actually, there is. It takes away attention from more important issues, squanders precious political capital, and galvanizes and radicalizes the opponents."

That was basically the thrust of a recent article of my own:

https://medium.com/politically-speaking/democrats-check-your-privilege-cfcd2a5b5b7d

Since linguistics is an interest of mine (I speak Mandarin and French), I also took a stab at the debate over gender neutral pronouns that you might find interesting:

https://medium.com/illumination/banning-gender-neutral-language-is-as-stupid-as-requiring-it-fda11dcc8fc