god i can't believe anyone has to say this but if you're so petrified that you think someone simply saying the current fucking date – two ordinary digits – is a risk of any kind then we should just pack it in and give up because the terrorists won
— Utterly dispassionate, documentary hog slaughter (@gravislizard) August 8, 2019
This is part of the left’s belief in the magical power of words. Perhaps they read too much Harry Potter when they were young.
Words do have power, but just not the magical and implausible ones much of the left believes in.