/lit/ - Literature

>>21819146
>There was no sympathy

There was plenty of sympathy, and that's a big part of the problem.

>>19547987
>given that leftists have been into the social justice shtick for as long as leftism has been around

Leftists have always had a rhetoric about caring about the have-nots in society, but there's a pretty big difference between leveraging that rhetoric into creating something like a welfare state(for example), and doing something like pic related.

Scratch a progressive cause today, and you just find a jobs program for elite aspirant out of work humanities graduates, you don't find any genuine will to represent the interests of working class people.

>>18008920
"Activism" and "organizing" are just words middle class failsons and faildaughters use to get pic related.

>>17994478
No anon... no it's not. It's only useful for funnelling working people's money your way.

>>17880759
>it’s called philanthropy.

But even philanthropy now is just the elites moving money around to other elites. We don't live in the Andrew Carnegie era where billionaires build libraries anymore.

>>17232431
This.

Anyone who thinks wokeness will go away naturally because it isn't "profitable" needs to stop watching PragerU and Ben Shapiro videoes. Cold War Reaganite liberalism is dead.