It's not a failed analogy at all. It's exactly the same: an attempt to compel people's speech in a postmodernistic attempt to redefine the external world to your liking.
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This is like Bob changing his name legally to Chad.
It can, and does happen:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Denali%E2%80%93Mount_McKinley_naming_dispute
This is not redefining the thing by changing the name. That would be calling it something other than a gulf, which it is, and demanding that everyone accept that it is now a different geographical feature.
Analogy is wrong. It doesn't work.
