This thread just ends up making me think about how much performative wokeness sucks. I don't mean that in a way that's targeting particular comments, but just in general.
It sucks directly because for minorities, it inevitably leads to a crash. The people who seemed to be your friends and supporters eventually bump into some minor obstacle where they're go "well I was on your side, but if you're going to ask me for stuff, that's too far". Some incredibly minor issue that they draw the line in the sand on to demonstrate that they think you're worth this much and no more.
But it seems like awareness of it also sucks. This hypothetical white person who genuinely wants to show their support for others is still under scrutiny for how genuine they are. At the same time that they're actively interested in issues that revolve around the well-being and feelings of others, they're supposed to be unconcerned about the feelings of others. They risk being seen as cringeworthy. Even if they're minor issues compared to the issues of others, it's not hard to imagine that these are social deterrents that encourage them to avoid this difficulty and to use that privilege they possess which allows them to decide that they don't have to care.
And it can be weaponized, which also sucks. A common method to try to silence the voices of minorities is by presenting them as performative wokeness; instead of showing them as what they are, people communicating their own experience and trying to improve the situations of people like themselves, they're dismissed as cynical and distant attempts at grabbing kudos by clinging to issues. It sells the notion that because the critic doesn't actually care and has no reason to, that no one actually cares or has any reason to. It's an intentional silencing of the issue by demonizing people for showing interest in them.
I don't have an action plan or anything, it just strikes me as a bad situation.
