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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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[-] LainTrain@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

What if they're visibly queer white people? Immigrants? Disabled?

I get what you mean though. I'm just curious honestly because I have almost the same thing but towards queer people

[-] Site_Hating_Moid@hexbear.net 11 points 7 months ago

All those people are racist too dude

[-] LainTrain@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 7 months ago

Oh I meant as a general predictor of good politics. I'm not from the US so it may be different there but I think in the UK it's a lot easier to find an anti-racist queer person than a person of colour who's not queerphobic