I think that this and many other puzzling passages are less a rhetorical failure than a tacit acknowledgement that if she stated what she does care about clearly, most people would find it abhorrent.

this is why saving any of us means saving all of us. there is nothing being done to people you find "lesser" or "more deserving" that will not inevitably be done to you once they realize it works. you have more in common with the residents of your city's homeless encampments than you do with Elon