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The writing is a problem. It's a call to action, it's a history lesson, it's an opinion piece. And, it's a mess. This is not The New Yorker: I want to know the gist of what you have to say in the first paragraph, and I want intro and outro to be good summaries. Bonus points for a structure that let's me surveil the finer points easily.

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Agreed. They use the word "problematic". Any time I see someone using that word, I close the tab instantly to avoid the brain damage that would result from me reading the rest of the piece. The word is meaningless and cowardly. Say what you think. Quit tap dancing around the conversation.

> The word is meaningless and cowardly.

It literally just means "has problems."

...which doesn't mean anything at all (unless you are quoting firefly, of course).

And by not at least naming one of the problems, the author is being cowardly and/or lazy. It's like describing a reviewed item as "good". It conveys no information other than "I like it". The word "problematic" does the same thing here. It signals that the author doesn't like something but doesn't tell us anything about why. In other words, it's fucking useless.

I would express this as "vague," at worst, not "useless and cowardly." What is "cowardly" about it?

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