this is my whole "label argument" ... without consent labeling hispanics "Latinx", cishet white women with their fucking pronoun tags on emails, calling those who don't have a home to live in the unhoused, all of it. look, it's well meaning, and in a vacuum the intent really matters, but the fucking problem is that there is NOTHING behind these intentions other than labeling. definitions, word choice and academic masturbation.
Biden was FAN-FUCKING-STASTIC but he was two decades too late. He was starting to implement a progressive policy agenda but public perception was well past the tipping point and his desire to stay out of the limelight because of what Trump did before him, Biden's fear of speaking / stuttering, and his poor health only made it worse.
Chuck Schumer and the rest of these assholes pander to the labeling lobby and then do absolutely jack shit.
you know what the labelled needed last time Dems had a monopoly? Voting Rights Act, Federal Equality Act, legislative student loan reform, and much more for working class and middle class PEOPLE .... ALL PEOPLE. We did get the infrastructure/inflation bill which was monumental as well as the CHIPS bill but we needed much much more. The fact that they couldn't get these so-called priorities done is proof of their apathy, hypocrisy and ineffectiveness. Yeah yeah the other Joe from WVA was a wolf in sheep's clothing and that attention whore but Sinema is a fucking bi-sexual woman for fuck's sake. Don't even get me started on a DOJ that had the fucking balls to be aggressive in prosecutions.
That's just the tip of the iceberg with the problems of the Dem party.
so instead of taking the label movement and being grateful (which I used to be), I want to shove it right up their asses and say, IT DOESN'T FUCKING MATTER. WE NEED REAL CHANGE ASSHOLES.
and nuance can be lost here - as between me and my neighbor, labels do matter, I appreciate my friends using their pronouns to signal allyship, and I do think it matters to stop calling hispanics Latinx and I do think unhoused or experiencing homelessness is important (I am involved with these folks in volunteer service) but when it comes to the political class? they can get fucked until they cause real change to occur.