Exxon & Climate Change -- Left's Witch Hunt Won't Stop with Them

Exxon & Climate Change -- Left's Witch Hunt Won't Stop with Them
The case against Exxon and CEI will not stop with Exxon and CEI
We think in language, and we think in stories, a fact that is appreciated most keenly not by writers or literary critics but by censors.
In the course of writing about the ongoing fraud in which a cabal of left-wing lawyers with connections to the administrations of Barack Obama and Andrew Cuomo has attempted to extort many billions of dollars from Chevron, I had a memorable conversation with an executive at the energy giant.
“We are the least sympathetic defendant there is,” he said. 
“We’re an oil company. 
You can say almost anything about an oil company. 
There are no stories in which the oil company is the good guy.” 
There is one: The one where you go to the 7-Eleven and fill up your miraculous machine with a miraculous energy source that would, within the recent history of the human species, have been indistinguishable from magic.
But the point stands.
You can say anything you like, no matter how wild the claim, about an oil company or a financial firm, or, indeed, about any corporation, “corporation” now being the English word that means “a business that I hate.”
The demonization of the word “corporation” has proceeded alongside the demonization of the concept.
The American Left, which long ago abandoned its hereditary liberalism for totalitarianism, is very much interested in policing language. 
Writing this week in Time, which still exists, Katy Steinmetz complains about the use of the word “transgendered” to describe people who were until five minutes ago known as transsexuals, and five minutes before that weird guys in dresses.
(The argument, in case you are wondering, is that the implicitly passive form “transgendered” suggests that something was done to these people, as though we could not distinguish between a tossed salad and a spotted owl.)
She offers other sage advice: “If you meet a trans person — someone who identifies with a gender other than the sex they were assigned at birth — it’s generally a good idea to ask which pronouns (he or she, him or her) they prefer and to use whatever that is...” 
Read on and fear the war is already lost.