I explained this to a leftist once, I said look if your side openly wants to harm the group I belong to to help other groups and the alternative wants to help my group at the expense of others who do you think I'm going to support.
If I get the choice of woke intersexual communist or actual goosestepping gas the alphabet people Nazi it won't be the commies I'm rooting for. That coming from someone who was, until the woke took over, firmly on the center left.
I try to explain this to them as well. The one reason a group might freely choose to help another at no benefit to themselves (as opposed to virtue signaling) is that the benefit is actually there, it’s just small and personal; it makes them feel good to help someone they think needs help. But that is now white supremacy, to feel good, even if you don’t advertise it. You can’t provide the gibs and support and feel good. They want the gibs and support, but they demand you feel bad. They demand you perceive this as your punishment...which it is.
I honestly cannot believe I used to be a liberal white girl who legit believed that non-white people would be totally cool toward us as we balanced out power and as their numbers grew. I guess I grew up watching Morgan Freeman play God too much. Why I did not see the sadism and vindictiveness, the tribalism...tribalism means you want to punish and destroy anyone from the other tribe because of who they are. Tribalism demands that the enemy children pay for the sins of the fathers, eternally.
So anyway I try to explain and say look, y’all say white (or cis, or straight, or male) people are the devil, and have ALL the power and that is why it is ok for you to do and say anything, you’re punching up, you have no power so it’s fine for you to go nuts and attack the ones in power.
But let’s pretend for a moment you actually believe that, and let me ask you this: why the fuck aren’t you acting scared? If the enemy has all the power, shouldn’t you sit your ass down at the very least, and prepare to kiss the ring at the most? But you are not scared. The opposite. You believe you have all the power and can act with impunity. You can do or say whatever you want, because while you claim the white straight cis male overlords have all the power (and any slice of that also has derived power), you act like we’re your hostages. And beyond that, hostages who are supposed to stay there voluntarily and tighten their own bonds.
I am just some Karen, so I actually am not a threat. But those white cis straight males you keep saying are in charge can be. How long do you think they’re going to smile and put up with this? If you think they have all the power, why don’t they stomp you out of existence? Either they have no power or they are choosing to restrain themselves, and for the most part it’s to be humane, not because they feel constrained. That white patriarchy you despise so much is what is lending them on the whole this tolerant, paternal view of your shenanigans. To treat you like unruly kids who just need more help to become better.
How long do you think you can count on those guys to feel humanely toward you in the face of your daily, hourly, grinding insistence that they aren’t human, themselves? How long do you expect these people who actually never have felt like a tribe at all to suffer your endless tribalist attacks during which you insist they ARE a tribe...before they shrug and go huh, ok, we’re a tribe? Sure, if you insist. Do you want to see us turn into the tribalists you claim we are? Do you want to see the white patriarchy stop being the tolerant and paternal sort? Right now and for as long as any of y’all can remember you have been seeing the New Testament version of patriarchy. You want to see the Old Testament version?
To culturally appropriate from AAVE, you can’t handle all that smoke.