It's probably good to just let some people think mutual aid and charity be synonymous while trying to build the self sustaining structutes of actual mutual aid.
because one of the big points of mutual aid is to be able to go "look at this. why aren't the government or NGOs doing this?" to people curious about it.
theres much more actually to it, but even people who think mutual aid means actual things disagree on what it means.
you can't win language fights without either dedicating a whole lot of better spent labor hours to it, or using coercive force and shame (even if you don't realize that's what you're doing).
Colloquialism happens because someone else out competed you on definitions even and especially if some of them were grifting. What makes you think you'll win this time, when the endless september isn't listening to you, just the people who explain it badly with their more palatable YouTubes and TikToks and Substacks and Twitter feeds.
go help build things or create a new concept that has stronger underpinnings instead of yelling at people you resent. they aren't going to join your thing. It's definitionally a local thing anyway.
