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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[–] Angel@hexbear.net 14 points 1 year ago

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.