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Why do I lack the ability to trust white people who claim to be progressive or leftist? (hexbear.net)

submitted 7 months ago by Angel@hexbear.net to c/chapotraphouse@hexbear.net

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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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[-] 420blazeit69@hexbear.net 24 points 7 months ago

Lots of normal comments, very conducive to building a mass movement

[-] TheDialectic@hexbear.net 8 points 7 months ago

Keeping wreckers out is super important. To that end a pattern here is being discussed

[-] 420blazeit69@hexbear.net 28 points 7 months ago

We're not talking about keeping wreckers out, we're at "I don't trust a white person unless they have a biracial kid, and even then maybe not." There has never been a sizable leftist movement in the U.S. with that kind of thinking. I don't see any realistic path to one with that approach, either. I don't know of any AES state (Cuba is probably the most relevant example to the U.S.) that has addressed racism and discrimination in a similar fashion.

I don't know how we can read Gerald Horne and have 100 threads about how racial categories were invented to keep poor people at each other's throats and then just do exactly that. I don't know how we can nod along to Engles on pre-patriarchical family structures or Graeber on pre-capitalist economies then think whatever we're doing in this thread is revolutionary.