You'll find that actual working class (and lumpenproles, like myself kind of sort of) people don't give a fuck about shit like this. They don't give a fuck if the x is supposed to be more inclusive. That's like being handed an empty extra plate at the church homeless dinner thing and being told it gives the meal more calories or something. It's like religion. You insist that 9 angels can dance on the head of a pin, and tell everyone how 9 is the right number because of [insert dumb shit], [insert dumb shit], and [insert dumb shit], and then when someone says the number is 12 you call them a bitch and declare a jihad. It's dumb. We could all be handing out narcan and blankets and instead we're arguing with people who've never been so cold they thought they'd fucking die in their sleep over whether a single letter and a single [ɛks] will burn the prisons. And they claim to speak for my unhoused friends and claim the mantle of leading and organizing the left (which they fucking suck at).
That's the thing I never really managed to understand. Why (and how) can't some people realize there are some matters which are fucking pressing, instead of some sterile debates such as this one. I think honestly, that idpol is just a symptom of something far worse, aka the inability of our current societies to delve deeper into matters that should be studied and understood by the public, or even worse, trying actively to overwhelm the public with absolutely worthless information, while barely mentionning shit that actually matters. You never hear about the children in Yemen, nor about the fact the ice levels are getting lower and lower. Here's something in the same vein. In France, we use gendered pronouns, and there had been something like 2-3 days straight of news reports on saying "le" or "la" covid a few months back. People were (and still are) fucking dying because of neoliberalism and incompetence, and the only thing they could speak about was whether we used the correct pronoun for the disease. And after the election results, those were somehow the exact same fucking ghouls praising Biden's victory as a victory for progressive ideas because her fucking running mate is a woman of colour, while not talking about policy at all.
TLDR : Get news from scientific sites or specialized reviews for shit that matters to you, mainstream media isn't telling lies most of the times, but they're purposefully hiding parts of the story, or not mentionning said stories to begin with. And when someone actually takes the aforementioned stuff seriously, you know you either have to educate them, or ignore them as much as possible.
You'll find that actual working class (and lumpenproles, like myself kind of sort of) people don't give a fuck about shit like this. They don't give a fuck if the x is supposed to be more inclusive. That's like being handed an empty extra plate at the church homeless dinner thing and being told it gives the meal more calories or something. It's like religion. You insist that 9 angels can dance on the head of a pin, and tell everyone how 9 is the right number because of [insert dumb shit], [insert dumb shit], and [insert dumb shit], and then when someone says the number is 12 you call them a bitch and declare a jihad. It's dumb. We could all be handing out narcan and blankets and instead we're arguing with people who've never been so cold they thought they'd fucking die in their sleep over whether a single letter and a single [ɛks] will burn the prisons. And they claim to speak for my unhoused friends and claim the mantle of leading and organizing the left (which they fucking suck at).
That's the thing I never really managed to understand. Why (and how) can't some people realize there are some matters which are fucking pressing, instead of some sterile debates such as this one. I think honestly, that idpol is just a symptom of something far worse, aka the inability of our current societies to delve deeper into matters that should be studied and understood by the public, or even worse, trying actively to overwhelm the public with absolutely worthless information, while barely mentionning shit that actually matters. You never hear about the children in Yemen, nor about the fact the ice levels are getting lower and lower. Here's something in the same vein. In France, we use gendered pronouns, and there had been something like 2-3 days straight of news reports on saying "le" or "la" covid a few months back. People were (and still are) fucking dying because of neoliberalism and incompetence, and the only thing they could speak about was whether we used the correct pronoun for the disease. And after the election results, those were somehow the exact same fucking ghouls praising Biden's victory as a victory for progressive ideas because her fucking running mate is a woman of colour, while not talking about policy at all.
TLDR : Get news from scientific sites or specialized reviews for shit that matters to you, mainstream media isn't telling lies most of the times, but they're purposefully hiding parts of the story, or not mentionning said stories to begin with. And when someone actually takes the aforementioned stuff seriously, you know you either have to educate them, or ignore them as much as possible.