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by amanaplanacanal 1752 days ago
Most of the time now I see the left used as a term for the woke, or race and gender aware folks. It's unfortunate, because race and gender are divisive topics, and class based discussions could potentially pull a lot of white people back into the leftist fold.

Which is not to say poc and lgbtq folks haven't gotten fucked historically, they totally have, but we could all be allies if we focused our messaging differently.

A lot of this is probably due to the urban rural divide. Urban folks can see poc and lgbtq people around them every day, but they don't see the lower class white people living outside urban areas.