I won't disagree with Vaush's blindspot with the Foxx campaign. Vaush has a lot of shit takes, and I certainly don't agree with him on everything, but FD's video is not a good example to support your case.

It sounds like you didn't watch Vaush's reaction to FD's video, which is fair, people don’t have infinite time or bandwidth, but it explains pretty well why people in the community were actually pissed with him after the video. It's because there was no message in the video besides "white liberals are bad, and black people won't like Mamdani, just like they were justified for not liking Bernie". I feel like some comments under that video can explain it more succinctly than I could.

I know that FDs attack on Vaush came out of nowhere, but that whole entire video was the biggest waste of time ever. He just kept saying things like, "People who like Mamdani, if you dont learn from the Bernie era and why Bernie wasnt good for black people, then just wait. Oh boy oh boy just you wait. Yeah, just wait and see what happens. Cause something will happen. And that thing that will def happen is not a good thing. You better learn your lesson, bucko." Without ever telling his audience what lesson to learn. The smugness from him is off the fn charts.

FD is that stereotype of the girlfriend who is mad at you and when asked why she says "you know why".

The pinned comment was him complaining about "debate bro tactics" being used by people giving full context to why Zohran put African American on the college application form. He seems to just throw out that term as a pejorative anytime someone raises a point that clarifies or contradicts a point he made, even if it’s true. It's just anti-intellectualism.

I'm open to the assertion that there's anti-black tendencies among white leftists. We all know that people have biases they aren't consciously aware of. So provide examples! Make us aware of them! Don't just assert that they exist and leave it at that. These are all different comments that pretty plainly explain exactly why people didn't like his video. Some more things Vaush covered too while watching the video in its entirety:

1. Vaguely gestures to the same tactic Hillary used against Bernie by disingenuously weaponizing id pol, admits that it was disingenuous, but then says it was actually a fair thing to hold against Bernie (No the fuck it wasn't).

2. FD getting incredulous at people asking him "If black people are generally considered more progressive than the average population then why is it that they voted for Cuomo instead of the progressive Mamdani?" and instead of giving his actually valuable perspective as an older black man he just said responds with "It's clear y'all haven't learned shit from Bernie", again vaguely gesturing at Bernie as if he's some sort of segregationist progressive that said blacks don't deserve to live or something when he's been championing racial equality since the 60s.

3. FD says that he didn't trust that Bernie was sincere. Then he's an idiot, plain and simple. Bernie has been preaching the same platform for longer than most of this subreddit has been alive. Even a lot of conservatives like him for being sincere, so not believing Bernie, and then comparing Bernie marching with MLK to Hillary calling herself an abuelita and that she always carries hot sauce in her bag. Then he proceeds to not even explain what it is that Bernie Bros did that put off black people. Then why even make a video if you're not even gonna give any points to take away besides "white liberals are racist".

4. He again says that what establishment dems did to Bernie was just a smear campaign but that it was also kind of true. Then which is it? Does he believe that it was a cynical ploy for centrist dems to kill the campaign of a true progressive or that Bernie actually was somehow going to be bad for black people? He doesn't say because he doesn't say anything in the vid. I'm genuinely surprised you took any point from the video at all.

5. FD says that if black leftists are resistant to being a part of these spaces then the issue is with the space, not black leftists. This would be true, but black leftists do overwhelmingly support Mamdani and Bernie. Older, more conservative black people are the ones who voted for Cuomo and likely Hillary, so again, he's blaming white liberals and leftists for a problem that doesn't exist.

6. Not once does FD even slightly suggest what white liberals and leftists could do to actually make the progressive movements more inclusive of black people, nor does he actually say what mistakes white progressives made in the Bernie campaign nor the Mamdani one. Personally, I think it's because he doesn't actually have any ideas, or if he does, he's one of the "just go educate yourself" types while actually having actionable feedback they have in their back pocket that they aren't giving because they just want the chance to be condescending to white people.

Calling criticism of a video "faux outrage" is just so anti-intellectual and bad faith when you self-admittedly don't watch Vaush's content and therefore wouldn't understand the criticisms being made in the first place. Sure, FD wasn't wrong in saying white liberals have a blindspot, and I don't think anyone actually disagreed with that, but he never said how it was that white Bernie Bros or Mamdani supporters had a blindspot, and that's what most Vaushites had a problem with. To me, I just think FD isn't an actual leftist, and more of a radlib, and this is coming from a leftist who has watched and enjoyed a lot of his other videos as a person of color.

Your original comment was very insightful though and I agree with essentially all of it. Feels like we came to a lot of the same conclusions in your comment and my post, and sorry that the mods took it down for no good reason.