I have. There's protestors demanding that we finishing dismantling the American apartheid. Not particularly left. Are there calls for collective ownership of the means of production that I've been missing?
"Protestors" - right here you expose just how little credibility you have be neglecting literal violent riots, billions in property damage and theft, hundreds of assaults and dozens of murders and deaths that have come from this.
Seriously man, try as you may, you cannot Correct The Record of things people have seen and heard with their own eyes and ears for months
I haven't seen any news source call it that. That's my description, and it seems accurate. After all, South Africa based a lot of their system on how the USA operated.
But what news sources are we talking about? NYT? BBC? WaPo? Seattle Times? Christian Science Monitor?
Yep I'm aware of that as I've heard it for going on decades now. You're right in that it is an old joke, because if we're going to act as if the left in the USA now is the same as it was 10 years ago, then we aren't operating in the same version of reality