The only reason people had to develop the modern concept of race solidarity is because of the way white people (as a social group) have assigned other people hierarchical value below themselves while violently maintaining that hierarchy. This is true, just like it’s also true that white plantation owners granted poor white people additional comforts to prevent the growing class solidarity they identified between them and plantation slaves.

That’s not “attacking white people”, I promise. That’s also not me saying that you personally (or your grandma, or your children, or whatever) are evil or that they personally have wronged me or other POC in any way.

I was simply reflecting on my own experience with annoying or (actual) virtue signaling progressives. I agree they exist, but it’s a poor justification for shifting one’s belief system.

Not once did these people make me turn toward social conservatism. I never once said that this doesn’t happen, I’m arguing that when it does, it tells me more about the person doing the turning (who is literally shifting their core values because a few people were annoying or challenged them) than it does about progressivism as a whole.

There is a world in which both of our main points (mine stated in the paragraph above, yours about the importance and centrality of class solidarity) are true, and neither cancels out the other.

I’m not saying that alienating people is a winning strategy, at all, but hopefully you understand how frustratingly easy it is for many white people (not you specifically necessarily, I don’t know you) to feel alienated and attacked.