WORDS MEAN THINGS.
You have just hit upon the secret of the Left -— to the Left, words DON’T mean things (when they don’t want them to).
When I was at UCLA in 1960, I took a Course entitled “Philosophy of Science”. The instructor took the first three weeks laying the foundation for the premise that, since each person learns words differently, they mean different things to different people; and thus no two people can every truly communicate completely.
On the last day to drop classes, I stood up in the middle of the lecture, and told the instructor that, since people cannot truly communicate, in particular he could not communicate with me, and since I couldn’t learn anything from that communication, I was wasting my time, and so I was dropping his class ... and walked out and dropped it.
Since that time, I have noticed that Left loves to redefine words ... and that it is integral to their assaults on our culture
... like “Marriage”
... and “family”
... and “torture”
... and “tolerance”
... and “establishment of religion”
... and “fairness”
... and “natural born citizen”
... and “regulate interstate commerce”
... and “shall not infringe”
... (feel free to add to this list).
This is not new. Recall that “Alice in Wonderland” was a satire of the then current political system; and in it was the scene where it was said: “When I use a word, I mean it to mean exactly what I mean it to mean, no more, and no less.” Of course, that line was spoken by someone obviously insane ... now it is mainstream.
...and yet still used only by the obviously insane -- it's just that there are so many MORE of them than there used to be.