It’s up to your leftist friends to define their in-group. Not me! Sounds like the in group is queer people, BLM people and so on.
> A core tenant of leftist ideology is universal empathy, as a basis for support for universal human rights, equity, etc.
There’s lots of people the modern “woke” left in the USA doesn’t seem to care about: poor people, people with low IQ, white people in conservative areas, people who live in non-western aligned countries, homeless people, men who have male specific problems, and so on.
For example, a white male friend of mine is utterly crippled by trauma from his absentee dad. He doesn’t feel like anyone in his broader community cares about him and his problems at all.
For a group that talks a lot about compassion, I’m frequently disappointed by how little love I actually see coming from the modern left.
This comment is extremely vague and overly feels-based and anecdotal.
> [the left] doesn’t seem to care about: [long list of random things]
Based on what? This sounds like you didn't even check, didn't ask, probably weren't even going to look.
> For example, a white male friend of mine is utterly crippled by trauma from his absentee dad. He doesn’t feel like anyone in his broader community cares about him and his problems at all.
Could be worse, could be that your parents kick you out and your broader community actively wants to make you illegal.
The left, on the other hand, wants affordable healthcare, which includes coverage for mental illness and access to therapy.
Your friend's feelings of alienation is a small part of a much larger social problem the left cares deeply about.
For everything else, it sounds like maybe you expected """the woke left""" to show up randomly and magically solve all your friend's problems? They don't run society, they're not in charge, they're barely holding off their own problems. Mutual aid networks are a lot of work, especially when you're not bankrolled by billionaires.
When I said "most of my leftist friends are straight and white," what made you think our "in group" (i don't know what definition of this word you're using) is queer people?
> BLM people
What is a "BLM person" and why do when I say "most of my leftist friends are straight and white" made you think we're whatever a BLM person is?
> There’s lots of people the modern “woke” left in the USA doesn’t seem to care about
Who? And what does "woke" mean?
> poor people,
I don't know what "woke" means but I know what leftism mean. Are you arguing that the anticapitalists don't care about poor people, lol? That the accessibility activists don't care about disabled people? That we don't care about poor people because... they're white?
Hold on, that we don't care about homeless people??? what??? Where are you getting this lmao. And by men with specific male problems are you perhaps referring to transgender men facing state-sponsored prejudice and having their rights legislated against? Or gay men getting shot in nightclubs? Did you mean something else?
> white male friend of mine is utterly crippled by trauma from his absentee dad. He doesn’t feel like anyone in his broader community cares about him and his problems at all.
I'm sorry about your friend, that sucks. I just don't really understand what that has to do with anything.
> For a group that talks a lot about compassion, I’m frequently disappointed by how little love I actually see coming from the modern left.
I'm disappointed too. Who are you talking to? Do you come in accusing people of being SJWs and "woke" and then get treated like a reactionary, or are you coming in good faith or in need?
> A core tenant of leftist ideology is universal empathy, as a basis for support for universal human rights, equity, etc.
There’s lots of people the modern “woke” left in the USA doesn’t seem to care about: poor people, people with low IQ, white people in conservative areas, people who live in non-western aligned countries, homeless people, men who have male specific problems, and so on.
For example, a white male friend of mine is utterly crippled by trauma from his absentee dad. He doesn’t feel like anyone in his broader community cares about him and his problems at all.
For a group that talks a lot about compassion, I’m frequently disappointed by how little love I actually see coming from the modern left.