Met a cool guy in a wacky leftist discord, thought we could be friends. Turns out he was just another undercover reactionary spouting racist conspiracy theories. What the fuck? Why is everyone suddenly trying to "redpill" me? This is legitimately a cry for help, I keep having people trying to indoctrinate me into shitty racist shit.
A decent amount of the people Bernie brought over used to be alt right or libertarians and never shared in any common struggle enough to develop class consciousness or were just bougie elitist to begin with. Now they aren't hiding it to help the campaign anymore. Underneath all the bad faith criticisms the left does have a problem on racial issues, but it stems from people using theoretical understandings of marxism as a cover for how few marxist actually go through the type of mutual struggle alongside minorities that would create a shared class identity.