Can leftists be artists?

In the last episode of Seinfeld, Jerry, George, Elaine, and Kramer watch an overweight man get robbed in a small town in Massachusetts. Kramer videotapes the incident. Rather than to anything to help the overweight man, the four friends make jokes about the victim, in particular the victim’s weight. He’s not part of their circle—their sophisticated, ironic, well-to-do, elite circle—and so he’s