The left keeps fighting the language wars and losing everything else.
Unhoused, not homeless. Undocumented, not illegal. Transgender, not transsexual. Sex worker, not prostitute. And let’s be extremely careful about what word to use to refer to people of colour in the United States. Negro, the word used by Langston Hughes and Martin Luther King, Jr., is out. Afro-American and African-American (with or without the hyphens) had their day, but no more. This week the acceptable term is Black, with a capital B (which is the exact meaning of Negro, but . . . never mind).
Meanwhile, millions of people continue to live on the streets; immigrants continue to be abused by employers, traffickers, and government thugs; people with gender dysphoria continue to be harassed and vilified; women continue to be sexually exploited; and racism continues unabated.
Cartoon idea: Crowd chanting “She’s not illegal, she’s undocumented!” as ICE thugs hustle a woman into an unmarked van.
The “Left” is not left. The American left is nothing. The real left weaponizes their knowledge and skills. Definitions can be figured out later. There is no point in reading 100th UN list of corrupt oil companies if nothing is being done about it. It is common knowledge that Chevron is a satan-made company, tho it is still up and running. We see too many reports of “Who is responsible” and too little of “How to stop them”. We need an organized boycotting with mass distribution of instructions on “How to actually apply pressure”. I see many people who see the evil done, they realize that it’s bad, but there is no one to teach these people what to do about it. No one to show that it is possible to resist while going on with your life. “The spontaneous development of the working-class movement leads to its subordination to bourgeois ideolody” by Lenin.