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.
Queer white dudes have fucked with my heart and mental; and one of 'em was disabled. Like, “said all the right things just to keep me from suspecting I was their token” fucked with. Trust has to be earned from me unless I already outright know, likely through third-party introduction, that you’re on the level and actually either cognitively or existentially kinfolk.