Leftwing and progressive ideas are co-opted by liberals as the new version of the White Man's Burden. I think I first saw someone make that observation here on Hexbear and it's the perfect description. In the 1890s the US justified its behavior in Asia and Central and South America by "taking up the White Man's Burden" to "spread democracy and culture to the savages." It was the same attitude of "kill the Indian and you save the Christian."
Since 9/11 (and before...well, most of the States' existence), Americans have regurgitated this shit into a new form where they call Arabs "homophobic and sexist," while the US does the same bullshit at home. Is there really a difference between some chud shooting up a gay bar while police watch and police arresting a couple before executing them for being gay? What about the hundreds (or thousands, I haven't checked lately) of untested sexual assault kits needed to prosecute predators? Sexual assault in the US is legal by de facto because there's so much fuckery in the way of getting survivors justice.