I feel like Ive never seen or heard any dickhead who says shit like this actually make attempts to change the minds of those who are bigoted.
Its not blanket wrong to try and bring people with reactionary social beliefs into the left, but it absolutely must be paired with some form of consistent and clear education on minority rights and causes and if this is rejected, that person also has to be rejected from your movement and organizations.
Bigots and those targeted by bigotry can't coexist in a movement, and only one of these sides can change what they are, this is extremely obvious and you either choose to have constant burnout within the minority groups leading to them leaving, or you choose to risk pushing away bigots while converting some amount of them to comrades that can actually exist in the movement without causing harm.
Also it cant fall on the minority groups themselves to educate, thats far too large and tiresome a task and it just leads to shitty groups criticising the minorities in their org for "Only doing LGBTQ activism" or some shit, this is literally something I have heard in person leveled at Trans people in an org I was only briefly part of, for obvious reasons.
I feel like Ive never seen or heard any dickhead who says shit like this actually make attempts to change the minds of those who are bigoted.
Its not blanket wrong to try and bring people with reactionary social beliefs into the left, but it absolutely must be paired with some form of consistent and clear education on minority rights and causes and if this is rejected, that person also has to be rejected from your movement and organizations.
Bigots and those targeted by bigotry can't coexist in a movement, and only one of these sides can change what they are, this is extremely obvious and you either choose to have constant burnout within the minority groups leading to them leaving, or you choose to risk pushing away bigots while converting some amount of them to comrades that can actually exist in the movement without causing harm.
Also it cant fall on the minority groups themselves to educate, thats far too large and tiresome a task and it just leads to shitty groups criticising the minorities in their org for "Only doing LGBTQ activism" or some shit, this is literally something I have heard in person leveled at Trans people in an org I was only briefly part of, for obvious reasons.