When your politics are purely based on retweets and saying the right shibboleths, you don't notice when the actual underlying ideas shift radically. This isn't just the left, the right does this too, but lefty idpol is an excellent example of it. A decade and a half ago, people on the left wrote critiques of things like privilege theory as being anti-solidarity, because it focused on separating people into groups and treating those groups as immutable. Now you have "radical communists" saying that questioning the privilege of poor white people in Appalachia is tantamount to being a Nazi. Someone like Fred Hampton, who literally went and reached out to poor white southerners in
the Young Patriots, would be declared a collaborationist today.
I mean, could you imagine any of the leftist bread tube people talking about white poverty today?
Even thought statistically there are more poor whites in total than black and latino poor people combined, purely because of population? Same thing with trans women, who's "mental anguish" apparently matters more than men's even though, since men commit suicide at 4 times the rate women do and there are a shit ton more men than trans women, way more men will kill themselves in a given year than trans women will.
E: There's obviously a danger of whattaboutism, since different groups do experience things like poverty and suicide at different rates and for different reasons, but things like poor white people or male mental health are treated like punchlines in the modern online left. They are treated as unimportant and a joke. This is where the claims of "compassion" on the part of twitter leftists is such a joke. They dehumanize just as many people as a hardcore Nation of Islam member, they just pretend its about human rights.
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