Sally Kohn is a professional leftist.  Although she claims she's been an employer (more on that later), a review of her career reveals that she's spent almost her entire life working for leftist organizations, none of which ever rely on the free market for money.  They all get funds from corporations, government grants, foundations, or wealthy individuals.

When she hasn't been working for these outfits, she's been employed by or freelanced for media organizations.  She is not someone who's run a small, mid-sized, or even large business that's dependent on the vagaries of the marketplace to pay for operations.

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The fact that Kohn knows nothing about the private sector hasn't stopped her from having an opinion about those employers who have had to fire or temporarily suspend employees because of cash flow problems:

Oh Lordy, Twitter. Grasp the nuance of what I'm saying. I am NOT saying that it's not a hard, sometimes impossible decision. But it's still a DECISION. A CHOICE. Think about the meaning/implications of the word forced. No one is literally being forced to layoff workers.

— Sally Kohn (@sallykohn) April 9, 2020

AND that attitude in general, that business owners/CEOs take certain steps because they HAVE TO as opposed to because they CHOOSE TO, helps mask exploitation of workers in general in a million other ways — "have no choice" but to pay low wages, no benefits, etc.

— Sally Kohn (@sallykohn) April 9, 2020

The Twitterati were appropriately offended.  Here are some of the better attacks on Kohn's tone-deaf cruelty:

Well maybe because they can’t afford to pay them?

— Ryan Fournier (@RyanAFournier) April 9, 2020

So I guess when the government makes you shut down your business for a month

You net ZERO revenue (Actually lose money)

You don't layoff employees although you have no money to pay them

They stay employed just for fun

That makes perfect sense pic.twitter.com/OIJ50s21H4

— Brandon Tatum (@TheOfficerTatum) April 9, 2020

why don't business owners just re-purpose their photocopiers to print off stacks of hundred-dollar bills to pay their employees when they aren't making any money

— Harry Khachatrian (@Harry1T6) April 9, 2020

I'm guessing you've never had to deal with payroll, accounting, or unemployment policy if you really don't understand why you're getting a ratio right now.

— Lauren Chen (@TheLaurenChen) April 9, 2020

What a terrible take. In many instances owners ARE the victims along with the employees when they’ve had to shutter their businesses and lose everything in the process. Your attempt to make the owners the bad guy here shows an incredible lack of insight, knowledge, understanding.

— Mike Moore (@MikeMoo20990129) April 10, 2020

Having been rightly attacked for her stupidity and insensitivity, Kohn doubled down with a singularly stupid analogy:

Holy hell. The same people offended by me criticizing the notion that business owners are *forced* to fire workers are the same people who when regular folks are destitute and resort to looting, call those folks criminals and criticize their "choices" so....

— Sally Kohn (@sallykohn) April 9, 2020

There’s a difference between honest labor and criminality.  Moreover, looting by definition is an opportunistic crime that sees rabble take advantage of an emergency to steal from hardworking, law-abiding folks.  Only a leftist would be unable to distinguish between work and crime.

Kohn is a clichéd leftist: they all operate in a world entirely made up of theories untethered to facts.  The loudest leftists have never held real jobs.  Instead, they've spent their entire lives in leftist bubbles consisting of politics, academia, media, and funded organizations.

One of the things that COVID-19 is doing is clarifying the world.  It's showing who's necessary and who's unnecessary, who's smart and who's dumb, who's helpful and who's vicious.  It's pretty clear in which categories Kohn falls.