Comment by vintermann

I think this is just a loyalty statement, to be honest. Just like when a large corporation pretended to care a lot about pronouns, they didn't actually, they just wanted to flag allegiance to a certain interest coalition/patronage network.

And those people, for the most part, didn't really care much about pronouns either. And they knew no one else really did either. It was an ideological shibboleth to them, a safe and easy commitment since it affects so few people, and is unlikely to matter for anything they do care about.

Now Meta is shopping around for new markers. "Liberal bias" is a classic, that's still popular with the Trump-right. I don't think they mean much by that either.