If leftists cared more about people on a moral and philosophical basis than playing the game of politics, maybe we would be making solid progress. Political correctness and an obligatory adaptation to the current socio-political environment is breeding a bizarre duality in the left where empathy is polarized.
Why do academics living in gentrified neighborhoods pretend to care about poor people and people of color while simultaneously ignoring us and contributing to our suffering? You claim to care but you disparage poor Americans who can't afford higher education, people with learning disabilities, you make fun of our depression and trauma, you disparage the profoundness of our suffering and want us to all be positive and conform.
Why do you care about groups of people - people of color, women, the lgbt community - but you use childhood trauma and mental illness to insult right-wingers? You tell those with trauma and mental illness to "just get over it", you mock low self-esteem and pessimism, you egg on suicide to "get rid of the weak." If you disregard another human's life so easily that you would encourage them to commit suicide if they were suicidal, why do you care about oppressed groups? Is it fashion to you? Culture? Were your parents liberals? Do you not experience basic human empathy or are you stuck thinking what the people around you tell you to?
How do I feel as a person of color, as someone who grew up in poverty, knowing these aspects of me are the only things that make my "comrades" give a shit if I'm ok or not? Not seen as a individual, but as a member of certain groups, and accessory to the agenda of the left. Are we not fighting oppression because we care that people, individuals, suffer? There is no value in the group alone. The individuals make the group.











