I feel like a lot of leftist circles are more concerned with “saying the right thing” rather than “having empathy and critical thinking and trying your best” and I think this has led to two things
a) people being scared of trying or asking questions or engaging in conversation or because they are afraid of accidentally saying the “wrong thing” = being a bad irredeemable person
b) people thinking that as long as they say the correct thing they are automatically inherently good and can do no harm and could never unintentionally contribute to oppression and if you challenge them on something they’ve said you must be one of the bad guys TM because a good person TM would never question another good person TM
And I think this a huge fucking problem
(I also think that my point about leftists spaces taking common conservative sentiments – ‘women are soft and weak and men are strong and intellectual’ – and rephrasing it using leftist language – ‘hozier writes like a lesbian’ – is kind of a result of this. Because ‘Hozier writes like a lesbian’ sounds like a good and progressive and queer-positive sentiment (lesbians!!!!!) and then they never take any time to examine that statement and where it stems from)
