Stephan, what I care most about is swaying people towards the truth. It is essential to call things what they are – for example, "government schools," and not "public schools," "the War on the Bill of Rights" and not "The War on Drugs," "Victim Disarmament" and not "gun control."
But that doesn't mean we should never call them public schools, or refer to the war on drugs, or mention gun control by its pc name.
I've convinced far more people that Lincoln was a dictator in my own way than I think I would have if I came right out calling it "Lincoln's Dictatorial War To Stop Southern Secession." I agree with you that that's what it was. And so do many people who call it the Civil War.
I imagine that many civil wars in world history were really wars of conquest. When I hear the term, "Civil War," I am not overcome with illusory associations. I do not picture a pleasant, just war.
Almost every war in world history is misnamed, anyway. So is practically every political and legal oppression we live under. But it's hard even to explain that the Civil War is misnamed unless you refer to it at least once by its PC title.
So do I call it the Civil War all the time? Of course not. Half the time? Probably not even that. Some of the time? Sure, if it serves my argument better. How about "so-called Civil War"? That might be a good one.
That's just my two cents. Or, more accurately, my two percent of a Federal Reserve note.
