I was trying to briefly describe my own experience; I suppose I had addressed my own attitudes, realised that I wasn't deliberately being racist (or sexist or negatively discriminatory; they were all 'associated' in my case), but concentrated on actively rooting out aspects of my language and behaviour I thought were inappropriate. In my case, changing language was, perhaps, symbolic but I think it was also substantive in that it allowed me to be more active in addressing the central issues as well as the apparently trivial. The examples I used were off the top of my head and thus 'suss' but I think you understood my drift.

Cheers, Rowan