Right after WW2 pretty much every European country that still had colonial holdings in the Americas, Africa, and Asia went straight back to ruling them with a iron fist. Wars swept across the world outside of Europe and the Anglosphere. Wars of independence.
To that point I don't think there were truly any safeguards put in place for minorities. Really it was just ban Nazi imagery and formation of European trade zones that would progressively include more governance cooperation eventually forming the EU.
The safeguards in place were done to prevent EU member states from waring with each other, not safeguards for minorities or anyone outside of EU member states. Solution for Jewish people wasn't to make the EU safer for Jewish people, it was to take land elsewhere and make Israel. Anyone outside of EU member states including colonial holdings were fair game for mass destruction. A lot is made about the civil rights era in the US, European countries had there own versions of that too. The lesson of WW2 was that war sucks, wars should be fought on other continents, move the Jews to Israel. Modern civil rights in European countries had to be fought for as well post-WW2 but I think it was easier there because the minority groups were much smaller in number compared to the US so there was less racist blowback against social safety nets that non-whites could benefit from. Minorities were politically irrelevant until the past couple decades once the children grew up and population sizes grew and they started making it into significant political offices and corporate leadership positions. Now racists started feeling insecure a lot more regularly against the growing number of successful and visible minorities. People that were certain they weren't racist are finding themselves racist as minority populations are now in their surroundings rather than just a passing mention
--ended up writing a rambling rant of ways the left are really bad communicators and single minded in their activist interests--
I thought this would happen but you get ostracized, at least scolded, if you tried to bring up the risk that not providing men the same outreach that women get for expanding career field interests and mental health counseling would possibly end up with a generation(s) of men falling behind and feeling isolated and attacked
Bring it up now and you'll still get an incredulous reaction like it's impossible for men to have struggles that aren't their fault and should be mitigated.
Two areas where I see it as mind blowingly dumb. Guy grows up in an abusive environment or possibly came from extreme poverty domestically or as an asylum seeker/refugee - they get lumped into the stereotypical male/female culture war and are encouraged to be supportive of these culture wars and eventually they'll have their time. Anyone with experience know men and women that are traumatized take time to get them to open up. With women patience is expected. With men spit it out or get out of the way to open the stage for VP of whatever company making 300k a year to tell you how if they were a different demographic they'd have made that 10 years earlier and be CEO now, maybe president of the country.
It's been decades in my opinion since poverty and income inequality has been at the forefront of leftist social communities. At least not when it's targeting straight guys that grew up in terrible circumstances
The other is say a married couples, male and female couple, child dies - pretty much everyone is going to be consoling the mother and ignoring the father. Maybe telling the father they have to be strong and supportive of their wife. Both need support. Homeless beds at like soup kitchens or elsewhere. I understand women are more vulnerable, but it's pretty messed up how much more resources there seems to be to prevent homelessness of women compared to men
Rates of depression especially with boys have been going up for a long time now but I feel like we've been heads in the sanding it for a while now because for some reason being mindful for boys and mens mental health is the patriarchy and that's those a part of the patriarchys responsibility
Still though rates of depression has skyrocketed with women too especially teenage girls but we're in some state of no introspection currently certain that our leftist behavior and rhetoric must be true, we read the literature
But on that literature we read it doesn't mean we interpret well and choose the correct action. And in speech we overuse academic jargon and get mad at people when they misinterpret our academic jargon and instead of speaking in a more consumable fashion, we say we won't dumb things down (which is disrespectful speech to always calling it dumbing down) and spend years arguing with people that they just don't get it, read the literature
Ehhhh. I feel like us on the left are charisma and speech deficient, people who see poor and non-college educated people and get the ick, really bad interpreters of data. Like rising depression and isolation from guys have been a thing for over a decade. Same with women. 2020 demographic voting data should have been a huge siren but somehow 2024 everyone was still like, if you're a minority or woman, you default to never Trump and care more about social issues than safety and finances. Shock of his demographic gains that showed up increasingly since 2016
I regularly hear mocking of people in poor neighborhoods who place security as their highest or like top 2 concern along with jobs because don't they know crime rates since the 90s are way down. Damn, think. Poor people live in the high crime rate areas. High crime rate areas are just shrinking but it's still bad for those that live in them.
Same with how going to them and praising the wanton graffiti as culture and art and not understanding why community members paint over them and really dislike graffiti taggers who are often gang affiliated (where do suburban people think taggers get their start along with the money for spray paint and who's permission to tag up peoples property?). Like data. It's not new data about crime rates before and after painting over graffiti but on the left and it's obsession with art and performance, got to communicate with poor communities with art they see like graffiti. Of course it falls flat