Deluge said:Progressives are only comfortable amongst people from the same educational/class background. There is ethnic diversity in their social circles (usually Asian/Indian) but zero class diversity. Despite all their socialist rhetoric they can't stand white working class people and have no clue how to act around working class minorities because they behave the same way but since they're not white they can't be criticized.
My (recently ex-)housemates were actually a walking example of this. Despite living in a working-class, ethnically diverse, immigrant-based suburb and using it to our advantage in playing the cultural crusader card (read: patronising its market, volunteering at the Asylum Seeker Resource Centre and tutoring a Sudanese kid), none of them would deign cosy up to said ethnic working class majority. We were basically islands of SWPL/SJW-dom in a sea of ethnic homonculi. A lot of the inner-city hipster enclaves in my city had actually grown out of ex-migrant/working class enclaves. While you still see elements of such ethnic nuclei, nary the twain shall meet, and to talk about actually hailing from heavier ethnic suburbs here would be a social death sentence in SJW circles.
Admittedly I wasn't immune to this whole behaviour -- as paltry a defence it was, I would say that it was a natural progression from growing up in an Anglo-heavy, upper-class, picket-fenced neighbourhood.
It was ironic, because these SJW friends are the exact same types who rail about cultural appropriation, oppression and genocidal institutions in society and government. Yet they are using the same mechanisms to hermetically seal themselves socially from the underclass they purport to stick up for.
RawGod said:Indeed the whole raison d'etre of progressivism is the attempt of middle-class whites to separate themselves from working and lower class whites due to status anxiety. Non-whites on both sides are drawn in by self-interest and convenience.