Authentic vs poor

Calling attention to hypocrisy is a waste of time.  Most people don't care if they are inconsistent, they just move their firm defense to another subject.

But it is fun and personally rewarding to see hypocrisy in others.

My new favorite is the 'authentic' debate and the hypocrisy it engenders.  Most Lefties and many others believe that there is something called authenticity.  As a consequence a man can't really understand and write from a woman's point of view, a white from a Black's point of view or fiction writer in India of a Holocaust survivors point of view.

This ignores most of the history of literature, spy work and cross cultural work environments.

Being wrong about the nature of authenticity is one thing.  But it is always accompanied with a Left wing hypocrisy.  I have been in the top floor apartments of Upper Westside New Yorkers, in the dining rooms of Hollywood mansions and on the deck of luxury yachts and had to listen to Lefties tell me how poor people think and what they need from the government.

Can't these people who lecture on the poor, vote for politicians who claim concern for the poor, realize that they have no idea what the life of a poor person is about?  Unmitigated hypocrisy, which most of us hear every day.

"The poor need this; the poor want that; the poor suffer from this..." 

How do you rich people know so much about poor people? 

I built a park for street winos and spent years talking and working with them; I've been in third world projects in India for untouchables and talked to them.  Nothing I've ever heard from a rich Lefty about 'the poor' connects with reality.  I see the hypocrisy of their belief in authenticity and the conflict with their willingness to be experts on the poor.