I don't think I can disagree with your general point. It is up to the pol to sell the policy. And Democrats are generally terrible at that, I agree! Not sure what that has to do with lists of random verboten words identified by right-wing grifters that get pegged to elected Democrats not using them.
This "elected Democrats" thing is a dodge. People are encountering this in everyday life. When they fill out a medical history, when they apply to college, when they turn on the local news and someone is saying "the new OB-Gyn department will serve local pregnant people ..."
It's not a dodge! It's the central problem of this discourse! Why is the language on a college application a problem of someone running for Congress?
Pregnant people is just plain ridiculous,followed closely by unhoused.
Why is being more accurate and inclusive ridiculous?
And in normal conversation. I've been corrected on "homeless" and told I've been insulting for not using "unhoused" This stuff has infiltrated the social milleau in maddening ways - and they're MEANT to do that because that's what advocates want - everyone use their devised terms for their reasons
Some people are assholes it's true. How is that a problem for Democrats?
And I'm legitimately trying to understand what the issue is. I do not see it. Perhaps that's my failing.
So there's no reason for the term "unhoused" it's not meant to be used instead of "homeless". If a term is said to be preferred you really don't think people will take that to heart and tell others to use it? You're being purposely obtuse, I suspect.
I agree with you! I don't use the term "unhoused." I agree that people should not "correct" plain English with not-plain English. If someone else wants to say it, they can have at it. It's no skin off my nose. But how is any that a problem for Democrats writ large?
Because it's coming from Democrats (the left generally) and it's pissing people off.
So it's a problem for all Democrats? Instead of just a poor interaction with a particular person? Can you at least see the problem I have with that?
Do you have the word "example" in your vocabulary? Because that one would actually be a good one to add. Yes, it's a problem it happens enough that there's a broad general conversation about it.
OK I'm honestly not trying to poke you, and I sense I am so I'll leave this. I only want to say that the demands to insist that people say or not say certain things are pretty much per se unreasonable. Regardless of where they come from.
Because assholes vote.
I can 100% assure you that folks who are not terminally online for politics do not run into these words. I know many of them. This is literally about an incredibly small sub-section of folks who follow political topics online, which further exposes how utterly stupid it is.
Then it should be easy to abandon these terms hm? I live a real life too (it's not just you) and i have encountered a lot of for example in monthly observing my county legislature as a member of LWV. Thats where I was corrected re "homeless" Interacting with medical care, applying for jobs too.