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Compared to libshits who say stuff like "I'm a socialist!" when they actually mean they want Bernie Sanders type social democracy, it does open the door a little, but I know that they could still be very much prone to hard-to-excuse shortcomings. There are also people who identify with labels like "Marxist", "anarchist", or "communist" without a lot of conviction, believe it or not. They might bring it up if they are asked about it, but they'll never mention it in their life beyond that point, at least not enough to really understand why their whiteness could make them unaware of the holes they may have in how they view the matters of things like oppression and racial activism.
Honestly, I second the point about being skeptical of some POC too.
Funnily enough, despite what you read in my original post, I am actually bouncing back from what was a very long episode of internalized racism. I used to practically worship white people, and here I am now, doing what seems to be the opposite.
A lot of my internalized racism definitely stemmed from people within my own family, culture, and ethnicity treating me poorly throughout my life, especially in the context of me being queer. While I never grew to love those who personally wronged me, I stopped directing the blame toward my own race and more at what I see to be a more pressing matter: the blood that European imperialism and oppression has on its hands.
It now goes without saying that, if it weren’t for this violent history of white colonizers trying to dominate every other group of people on Earth, I feel like there’d be far more peace than what amounted today.
"Skinfolk ain't always kinfolk" is the first lesson we should learn. (Ironically, I learned it from a family that couldn't decide if it wanted to be assimilationist(one side trying to groom me for a military career that would serve as a catapult to high-salary corporate life) or radical(getting huffy with me any time I brought home a white or a Latiné instead of a Black boy or girl), and ended up pulling the ladders up behind them in the first place)