A few things I note:

"The family faces immediate FINANCIAL without any legal recourse" WTF? That's not just a flinch, it's some sort of violent tick.

The list of "slurs" very conspicuously doesn't include the n-word and blurs its content as a kind of "trigger warning". But this kind of more-following is itself a "flinch" of the sort we are here discussing, no?

Harrison Butker made a speech where he tried hard to go against the grain of political correctness, but he still used the term "homemaker" instead of the more brazen and obvious "housewife" <today.com/news/harrison-butker-speech-transcript-full-rcna153074> - why? "Homemaker" is a sort of feminist concession: not just a housewife, but a valorized homemaker. But this isn't what Butker was TRYING to say.

Because the flinch is not just an explicit rejection of certain terms, it is a case of being immersed in ideology, and going along with it, flowing with it. Even when you "see" it, you don't see it.

The article claims on "pure fluency grounds" certain words should be weighted higher. But this is the whole problem: fluency includes "what we are forced to say even when we don't mean to".