Goosefoot
If he was just exploring the idea he'd be looking at his own behaviour and attitudes, and concrete things like how he actually treats people, pays them, etc.
Yes, absolutely he would, in the normal world we've probably left far behind. Wokery - and that's the point of its obsession with language control - tells him that this is the way to deal with it.
This business of telling everyone else they need to change how they speak generally comes from a quite different impulse.
When all you have is a hammer, everything looks like a nail. I submit that the professor is doing what he thinks is right because he's learned that this is the way people are supposed to look at problems these days. It's wrong; it's bonkers because it's tail wagging dog.
I'm not defending his analysis, I'm just not willing to say his language-policing is coming from bad motives or is deliberately obfuscatory. He's a follower of fashion. He doesn't work in the Humanities so he's an amateur at this, just trying to do the right thing by copying. He is pointing to something that's wrong, without recognising that changing the label doesn't change much. He's probably quite proud of himself for discovering a new application of a rule.
One of the things about adherents of wokery is their almost religious belief in the power of words and speech acts. Just say something, and you can make it so! Literally. 