This raised something even more troubling. For a long time, people had clearly been confusing me and Wolf, getting our names mixed up, as happens to all of us sometimes. But as Covid wore on, and all of this not-really-reading took on an ever more breathless quality, it became clear that we were being not confused but conflated, treated as one interchangeable Naomi.

XREF: The distinction between accidental confusion and systematic conflation speaks to how public discourse flattens individual identities.

Naomi Klein, Doppelganger, loc. 119