I am really with you on this, but I’d assert there’s more to it. It’s tough to blame them. Surely awareness is lacking but even if it isn’t, we’ve got a system

I am really with you on this, but I’d assert there’s more to it. It’s tough to blame them. Surely awareness is lacking but even if it isn’t, we’ve got a system in which your own well-being depends on being part of a social circle. The economics of associating one’s self with issues which are themselves associated with low-income or low-popularity is not seen as an option. On top of that, there is virtually unlimited liberal political funding for virtue signaling because it’s a very indirect way to signal compassion without economic action to back it up. This plays really well to middle and upper class people and in-turn lower class people seeking to mingle with higher classes adopt the behavior. The fact of the matter is that freedom of expression is massively contingent on economic security; and at some point even moreso than education. Socialized securities are America’s greatest hope at the moment. Recommended reading: Mark Fisher, Pierre Bourdieu Recommended voting: DSA-endorsed