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Just imagine being the kind of person who tries to justify using words with harmful historic connotations instead of just using a couple of slightly different words for things.
Like, you would not believe how many times I've seen people argue that they should use the word "manned" when talking about spacecraft which carry humans. Because that's the word people used to use in the 1960s and we must never ever change the words we use or something like that.
Meanwhile, even the NASA guidelines say to use the word "crewed" for the sake of inclusivity and actively discourage the word "manned" in modern publications.
OMG brain typos 
inclusivity, not exclusivity!
Anyway, I know that the science bros love using words like "colonise" when they talk about space travel, because that's what sci fi writers decided to use decades ago and most people have never actually thought to change it. But there are so many other words which can be very easily used without carrying unfortunate historic connotations.
The future is what we make of it. Let's choose carefully what we take there, and be careful to leave behind anything which it would be better not to hold on to.
Language can change pretty quickly too. I mean, when was the last time you heard someone talk about "surfing the information superhighway"?
@InvaderXan
Since last summer, announcements in our trains and train stations changed from "ladies and gentlemen" to "dear travellers". The backlash! I mean, "dear traveller" feels a lot warmer and more welcoming to me than just "a and b"
@StroomAfwaarts It’s weird how people are so determined to oppose things. Because you’re totally right, “dear travellers” is a lovely way to address people!
@InvaderXan @vy Ooooh I like that. Wonder if it could work in gaming to, like "I bet we could 3-crew this mission," etc.
@chartier Wait, why did you @ me in this?
@vy IIRC you retooted this (https://sunbeam.city/@InvaderXan/104122459110755262) about NASA replacing the language of “manned” spacecraft with “crewed,” and I liked the idea. Wanted to toss out a related idea and see what you both thought, was all.
@InvaderXan The only downside is that it sounds a lot like "Crude Mars mission" in my voice, which just implied it's a giant tin can powered by coke and mentos.
@diffractie About the only kind of rocket NASA can afford to fund right now, sadly
@InvaderXan oh I was wondering if there was a good alternative to "manned", thanks! :3
@SoniEx2 No problem!
@InvaderXan what's the alternate word? Explore? Inhabit?
@zzz Inhabit works perfectly well. Given how much vocabulary the English language contains, I'm sure there are other words which would work too. Truthfully, we don't have any particular word to mean "go and live on another celestial object", for fairly obvious reasons. Most other times that humans have done something new, we've also come up with new language to describe it.