They translate.
It’s not just the “reactionary” bit that’s a translation – look at what else Caro S. translated. Kenan’s “a group of black lesbian militants” becomes “Black queer feminist socialist[s].” “Lesbian” is whisked out of sight to be replaced with the vastly more progressive and enlightened “queer”…

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If you’re not Queer, do you even exist?
Just been blocked on Twitter by a woman after I asked her not to use the word around Gay men as it was often the last word they heard as the last kick was delivered.