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As a long time member of the woke left I've seen maybe half the things they're complaining about
And, notably, they aren't from people in the government.
Liberal opinion writers always equate people on Twitter with conservatives in power.
And some of these things are pretty fucking wild to compare. It's like they're taking the consequences of the worst case scenario of deadnaming (which is deliberately refusing to address a person in the normal and reasonable way they've requested because you disagree with the way they live their life) and treating it as though mistakenly addressing someone by the name you used to know them by or not capitalizing black when talking about people will get you the same pushback.
Like I deliberately picked two of the ones that are actually things here for that. Yeah you should make a point to address people by their current name regardless of why they changed it, you knew that with marital name changes. And in academic and formal writing "Black American/Canadian" is an ethnographic term and a proper adjectival noun much like Asian, and yeah people are less diligent about it with their white equivalent and maybe there's room to criticize on that. Don't bring it to the culture war, bring it to your editorial staff.
And yeah they seem firmly dedicated to being in the center. And I get why, it makes you feel smart while requiring basically no self reflection or mental work.