haha maybe I'm getting over-sensitive to this stuff >.<

He "came out" as anarchist sometime last year AFAIR, and he definitely has his share of lib brainworms. But i must admit that this vid may very well be the most consistent, clearsighted takedown of the role marginalized people play in US politics i've ever seen from somebody who isn't a communist.

People should still read Settlers afterwards for the full picture, ofc.

I’m not sure what point he was trying to make?

As far as i understood it, the point was that nazis need marginalized groups as enemies because ideologies wax and wane in popularity. Gorbachev shows that you can stop being a communist, but you cannot stop being black. The 00s show that the imperialist and fascist obsession with communism can be replaced with other designated enemies like "political islam" when geopolitics shift and different battlegrounds for imperialist projects become more important.

There's a lot of cringe attached to that section, but i see where he's coming from. OFC he should highlight more how integral anticommunism is to fascism, that's a miss there. When nazis hate me for being a commie, that's obviously wrong, that's obviously threatening, that's obviously a huge part of why the USA has spent 75 years propping up fascists all over the world - but at the end of the day, being persecuted by anticommunists means that i get persecuted for a choice i've made, for a deliberate engagement on the political playing field, for taking a side out of my own volition. Yes, it's the correct side, unlike the fascist one, but like the fascist one, it means that i'm an active agent in political struggle. I chose this.

I didn't choose to be trans. It's who i am, i can't change this without going back into repression and ultimately destroying myself, making myself wither like a plant that is fully deprived of sunlight and water. And when i encounter transphobia, it's personal, it hits closer to home than when i encounter anticommunism. I get reminded that there are people who want to exterminate me not for what i think and for how i act based on these thoughts and beliefs, but for how i was born, for how i am. For absolutely no fault of my own.

And that difference is at the very core message of this video: Marginalized groups (as merely involuntary members of that marginalized group, not as activists for their own rights) aren't players in this game. We're the ball. Libs who say trans rights way too often say this just because professing performative support for me is a way for them to trigger chuds and feel superior to them. They do not really care about me and most of them they know next to nothing about what it means to exist as a trans person and which struggles we face apart from the GOP really hating us. Hell, even with other leftists, i often feel as if they only respect me as long as i'm a trans comrade and that their support for trans causes falters as soon as the trans person in question is very obviously a lib and does a public liberalism. We are not viewed as full people in the same way white cishet able bodied culturally christian alochthonous dudes are, the people the vid refers to as "the everyman". We are reduced to tokens on a playing field and have to actively struggle to have any amount of agency in that game, even within progressive circles.

This ties directly into the main takeaway from this video, that you cannot have leftist politics without identity politics. That only focussing on class and saying "we're all people, let's completely ignore identity politics" is a deeply exclusionary message that will weaken and wreck our movement because it drives what are theoretically the most revolutionary strata of society away from a revolutionary movement.