There is a persistent narrative in the US that the Leftists are the ones who turn a "blind eye" to things that are "obvious social ills", rather than that Leftists are people who see those "obvious social ills" as symptomatic of deeper infrastructural issues that need to be extruded at the root rather than just whack-a-moled.
I do agree the institutional Left's game, all too often, is to dispute that said social ills are even social ills at all (the "don't believe your lying eyes" approach).