It was partly that he was bullied, and partly that he was a life long believer in Social Justice and helped tonnes of black and brown kids - only for a coloured to repay him by ruining his career and everyone dogpiling to call him a racist bigot anyway. The cognitive dissonance was so strong that his brain resonated into mush. Although to be fair, some of the people he helped spoke up for him, it's just that they were children and so powerless.
Even though he was a bleeding heart for biomass, I felt terribly sorry for him - because I imagine he looked back on his life's work and saw only a career of folly, then decided to rope. That suggests he had a conscience and was just trying to be a good man. What a terrible way to die.
Im thankful that I learnt my own lesson here the hard way.
Not quite a bleeding heart, nor have I ever been one fully- but I know to at least not give people blind trust in general (unless they earn it), and that trusting someone based on subculture, race, creed, religion, etc is a bad idea generally.
That stuff rarely matters and can mask character. Ive known people in the metal scene who I once would have given the benefit of the doubt 20 years ago (hay, were all similar, right?) who would turn out to be scummier than the people on the other side of the sub cultural divide.
Im sure its the same with this principle. Don't trust or help people solely based on race or a broad group they happen to fall into. Theres scum of all types and characters and castes, to be frank.
I'm not saying that you can't help people a little though, but make sure you have barriers between yourself and them, aren't a complete open book, and to just be careful basically. A lot of people with the 'right think' or who are on 'your side' can be complete scum, so don't just put on blinders when it comes to that and let yourself be a willing victim.
Its one of the biggest faults of SJW movements, imo. They place 'right think' above all else, and predators just naturally take advantage of that- and when you point it out yourself its 'reeeeeeee, you just hate civil rights, bigot'