Our new media – X, podcasts, citizen journalism – has dialed back woke virtue signaling euphemisms like “undocumented workers” and “illegal immigrants.” After the election triumph and with the return of common sense to our country, our new media has reintroduced “illegal aliens” to describe non-Americans committing a crime merely by being here. Look it up. These laws exist. And like any leftist woke virtue signaling, these euphemisms are deployed because it’s insensitive calling someone an “illegal alien.” It has potential to hurt their feelings.

Do woke leftists truly believe an illegal alien gives a bumpickle what they’re called? As long as they get to stay in the USA they’d be okay being called, say, a bumpickle. This is my intuition.

My intuition is analogous to euphemizing the homeless population of America. For decades Americans on the streets were called “homeless.” Then, it was switched out to “people experiencing homelessness.” And because that’s an additional eight syllables more than “homeless” it’s been whittled back to the two syllable “unhoused.”

I’ve been doing mental health advocacy for 14 years now and I’ve been in many industry meetings where much time is dedicated to making sure everyone is up to date on the latest homeless euphemism. The core reason for every switch up is because the homeless already have it hard enough without being called the supposed pejorative “homeless.”

Easy question: How does euphemizing “homeless” change their situation at all? Does using “unhoused” magically and mystically create new housing and addiction treatment and mental health services for the homeless? No. And do homeless Americans really care what they’re called? I’ve spoken with many homeless Americans in my advocacy work and I’ve yet to meet a single person who is looking for warmth, food, and safety who gives a bumpickle what they’re called. Naturally so. A lack of basic human needs is more hurtful than any hurt feelings over being called homeless.

The euphemisms are for whom? Who’s this for? It’s not for homeless Americans. Their circumstances remain unchanged no matter what they’re called. It’s for the woke activists around the meeting table who give themselves a self-congratulatory, self-administered pat on the back for being so woke and so aware, so sensitive and so enlightened, so wrapped up in their virtue signaling they forget why we’re sitting around that meeting table in the first place:

To create housing and services for homeless Americans and striving to better their lives with our combined efforts and empathy.

So illegal aliens most probably aren’t troubled what they’re called. Homeless Americans don’t care what they’re called. These two populations have more pressing life-necessary issues to contend with. Woke euphemisms only serve woke virtue signaling. Dialing back the woke euphemisms is a good thing and a harbinger of good things to come. Doing away with this brand of woke virtue signaling reminds us of the real problems so we can focus on real solutions to these real problems.

Problem: Illegal aliens are here commiting a crime against our country and our people.

Solution: Create effective policies and procedures to deport illegal aliens from our country. Discuss and design.

This trend I’m seeing in our new media, using the time honored term “illegal aliens,” proves to me our illegal immigration and unsecured border crisis is being taken seriously. Trump’s unity team has also reintroduced “illegal aliens” into the national conversation. Dialing back two decades of bogus sensitivity activism proves to me the power we’ve allowed woke purity shaming to have over us is ending.

If you’re right now thinking I’m racist and phobic then you’re part of the persistent woke itch needing to be scratched into oblivion by our return to common sense. Illegal aliens. Or illegals for short. America needs to be taken seriously again and calling it like it is, this is a good start.

The priority is America first.