Martin Luther King fought equally hard for civil rights and economic equality.

[Behind the Aegis]

64. Just because you haven't said (or seen it), doesn't mean it hasn't happened. It does.

No, it hasn't been just "centrists."

"There is no hierarchy of suffering that differentiates the two."

I am not claiming any such nonsense, nor is any one who actively combats social injustice. We are keenly aware of how economic injustice affects minorities! What does seem to stick in some craws is that social injustice intensifies economic injustice, not the other way around.

"And bigotry in all forms almost always gets worse in times of greater economic hardship and times of increased exploitation."

Yes, Jews are quite aware of this, as are immigrants and a few others. If, however, institutionalized bigotry wasn't there, the only bigotry exploited would be personal and societal. What some don't seem to fully grasp is social justice isn't limited, or even primarily, focused on individual and societal bigotries, but rather institutionalized forms of it. That is why combatting social injustice is paramount to creating a just economic system.