We have taught children for the last 100 years about the Civil War without needing to talk about how white people are still responsible today implicitly and have racial guilt.
It’s not really “leftist”. It’s just “american leftist” if anything.
As far as some traditional leftists go, this whole discussion is a distraction from looking at class problems: “poor white men” can’t be oppressed by being white or men, but can be oppressed by being poor. This seems a strange concept for some on the American side of the pond.
I just don't get how an american leftist can see every single fortune 500 company paying lip service to every single american leftist cause and not wonder if maybe something else is going on. And sure, I'm well aware that it's all meaningless PR maneuvers to curry favor among the public. But I firmly believe that these companies avoid any sort of class-based issue like the plague because that might lead to questions about why corporations can make so much money and pay so little in tax while the rest of us make peanuts and are forced to give the government 1/3 of it.