You just made a frankly ridiculous number of highly inaccurate sweeping generalizations. First off, leftists in general aren’t against technological advancement at all. (there are a few anarcho-primitivists around, but they’re pretty rare). What we generally have a problem with is capitalism, not least because of the way it twists technology into a malicious, dystopian parody of itself. I’m fairly certain what you’re looking at in the above image is a gaggle of neoliberals, because I haven’t seen anything even resembling this sentiment in the leftist groups I associate with.

Allow me to present you with a definition that should encompass the idea of leftism. It’s about hierarchy. The whole of the left believes in egalitarian principles, that everyone deserves equal treatment. The farther left you go, the less hierarchies they tolerate at all, and that’s why the leftmost point on the political spectrum is anarchism. I contrast this with the right, who believe that some people are inherently better or worse than others, which is why they by-and-large support capitalism. Note how much capitalist rhetoric and philosophy is about sorting the “talented” from those who aren’t. I’d get into how rightist outrage is overwhelmingly directed solely at changes to the status quo, but I’m here to talk about leftists and there’s only so many words one can take.

As for your thinly veiled “leftists are the real racists!” schpiel, please kindly take your outdated nonsense and shove it. If we truly did believe ourselves inferior, wouldn’t it make more sense to adopt a right-wing perspective and embrace our place in the hierarchy?!Leftism requires not just that you reject your place in the hierarchy, but that you reject the very idea that the hierarchy is justified at all. Being significantly on the political left requires that you reiect entirely the idea that one person may fundamentally be “better” than another, that no one is inherently more valuable than another no matter the differences in ability. If we did so believe in inferiority, what sense would it make to fight, to protest, to demand equal treatment?

As for images, you’re not exactly too far off. We have a problem with images, because so often images are a lie designed to solidify the hierarchy we so oppose. Those at the top paint those below as “inferior” so they can preserve their status atop the hierarchy.

And don’t start with the “hate straight white males” crap. I AM a straight white male, and open about it. I would know if they hated straight white males. As for hating “western civilization”, I think you’ve been watching too much Jordan Peterson. The “west” is an area with such an astounding amount of variety and volume that it hardly makes sense to think of it as a whole, much less hate it. As for the “individual vs collective” political spectrum, how would we claim to have a happy collective without any significant number of happy individuals? Conversely, how can you possibly claim to create any significant number of happy individuals without creating a happy collective by definition alone?

Call me crazy, but maybe the fact that we focus on making change in the general area referred to as “western civilization” is because we live there?