When a person of color, especially if they're black like me, affirms their support for causes such as queer liberation, feminism, animal rights, or socialism, I immediately feel that I can believe, with minimal doubt, that they're truly convicted and principled in what they're advocating for.

However, when a white person claims to support leftism, until my skepticism is proven wrong, I immediately assume they're a dishonest and performative libshit. I then proceed to interact with them with hefty amounts of caution. If my assumptions are proven true, I'm never shocked.

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[–] DamarcusArt@lemmygrad.ml 14 points 1 year ago

Oh, I guess I'm not the only one who has experienced that. Way too many people who think that being an "activist" makes them better than other people and therefore they can walk all over everyone else. In my experience it's just a small but very vocal group, not the majority though, if possible, maybe try interacting with different groups and orgs? My local Marxists are all useful idiots toeing the American government line on everything, but our local anarchists are ok when it comes to protesting and stuff, so I usually go with them, even if we disagree politically.