Let's try using the long form.

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4. Reply from a friend via e-mail.

Yes, I agree that language helps build walls, and extinguishes real sharing. I cringe every time I hear our City Council member, a rabid member of the Democratic Socialists of America, using the words “progressive”, “equity”, etc.  They are not just words with meaning. They’re attempts at walling off people, identifying some as friends, others as foes, the righteous vs. the unrighteous, the washed vs. the unwashed. They are a way of hinting at what either you don’t want to say in detail in public, or they simply reflect lazy thinking, kind of like excessive swearing usually just reflects a lazy mind.