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.
All I know is when over half of these white “progressives” I met throughout my life in the west openly mock east and southeast asians and at the same time telling us that we are somehow the most racist group while also saying that they love and support the minorities to other non asian minorities, all that trust was immediately gone. Malcolm X’s comment on liberals pretty much confirmed to me with regards to my experiences with them.
East Asians seem to be left out of most “racial Justice” discussions in Western progressive circles. It’s always purely “black and brown” while leaving out various Asian groups that fit neither category.
It’s quite astounding how they pick and choose being progressive as if they’re picking out ice cream flavours instead of doing the normal thing of supporting everyone equally.
They score brownie points by saying they’re allies to people of color, although the “color” is exclusively black and brown. East and Southeast Asians are fair game though. Apparently too privileged to experience racism but look different enough to get mocked for it.
As an occidental-watcher, could this phenomenon be due to the perception that the greatest threat to so-called “western civilization” comes from the “east”, which was the USSR in the past and China/Russia today (and apparently some weird “Japan is gonna take over the world” hysteria in the 80s) while black and brown people are stereotyped/perceived as belonging to/being of “shitholes” and not pose as much a threat to the aryan empire? I.e. some real deranged race science + red scare brainworms as is typical of the caucasoid mental cesspits.
Idk, I’m (thankfully) not a westerner, only trying to think about how those pale freaks could perceive the world