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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[–] frauddogg@lemmygrad.ml 6 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

there are plenty of informants, compradors, etc,

"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)