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A Canadian politician just stood at a podium and rattled off a 17-character acronym with a straight face — and the entire internet stopped to ask if it was real.NDP Member of Parliament Leah Gazan used the term MMIWG2SLGBTQQIA+ during a press conference this week while criticizing Prime Minister Mark Carney’s budget for cutting $7 billion from Indigenous Services Canada. The acronym combines Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women, Girls, and Two-Spirit with the full Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Queer, Questioning, Intersex, and Asexual designation. Gazan said zero dollars were allocated to address what she called an ongoing genocide affecting that community.The clip went viral globally. Elon Musk responded by saying it would have been considered an implausible comedy routine even in 2010. Arkansas Governor Sarah Huckabee Sanders said they are just adding letters at this point. The video has been viewed millions of times across platforms. Even some supporters acknowledged the optics were damaging to the cause.Here is the deeper problem. When language becomes so complicated that the average person cannot even repeat it, the message is no longer about communication. It becomes about signaling membership in a system of ideas most people never agreed to. Meanwhile, the actual crisis of missing and murdered Indigenous women gets buried under a string of letters no one outside a university campus can decode.“For God is not a God of confusion but of peace.” — 1 Corinthians 14:33Clarity is a sign of truth. When the language gets harder to follow, ask yourself who benefits from the confusion.What do you think — does adding more letters help or hurt the people these movements claim to protect? #justice #truth #politics