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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[–] Tunnelvision@hexbear.net 17 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I mean yeah kinda. Like Joe Biden calls himself progressive, do you feel that’s a useful term at that point? Calling yourself a communist explicitly is the only thing that can’t really be co-opted by the libs, mainly because they’re terrified of being called communists.

[–] LaForgeRayBans@hexbear.net 5 points 1 year ago

Libs can and will coop the word communist if we let them.