"I don't care who does the distinguishing," said famed Sixteenth Century nominalist Tweedius Magnus, "as long as I get to do the defining."
"Inclusive language" advocates have the advantage that they invented the debate, and so got to invent the terminology in which the debate is framed.
Thus: "Exclusive language" gets to mean "speech that uses certain words in an inclusive sense." "Inclusive language" means "speech that uses those words only in an exclusive sense."
"Exclusive language" refers to inclusive language. "Inclusive language" refers to exclusive language. It's just one of those things.
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