[sharpneli]

It’s a handy ideology. It allows Californians to feel super enlightened while having a ridiculous homeless population at the same time.

Precisely by making it a race issue instead of wealth distribution/class issue it becomes easier to shut people down who would support social programs, mostly by driving the well meaning masses into looking at it from the race perspective.

Keeping it as a race issue keeps the lower classes on eachothers throats. Heck I’ve seen arguments that Oprah, a billionare, is less privileged than a white hobo, because whiteness. And because it’s not about money but literally the amount of melanin in your skin there is no need to care about the money part.

Otherwise I wouldn’t care less what the yanks do but due to the large cultural dominance they have the issues spill to outside of US.