I’ve always thought the better recourse for problematic labels is for the targets of their denigration to embrace and claim them as their own. This diminishes, and potentially eliminates, the power of their oppressors to wield it in an incendiary way, and they can then choose to suppress its use once the imbalance has shifted sufficiently.

Note: this is from the perspective of someone who largely embodies the peak of unearned social and demographic privilege, so season with NaCl to suit.

Emotional support compensators which drink artisanal spirits.

The US has been on the losing side of every armed conflict it’s been involved in for 80 years. The clowns currently in charge believe that streak is at least double that.