@tillshadeisgone Like a decade or so ago, I published an essay that built on a James Baldwin statement that America has never reconciled itself properly and that racism will hurt white people in ways they can't even imagine. I said you could already see how it was happening in the laws, policing, etc. White America's need to hold onto racism even at the cost of itself is a wild thing to watch.
But it's even more wild to see white queer people look directly at that, and then do the same thing. It's like they are literally looking at the problem, and describing the problem, and still saying "Nah, that's not this problem tho. Totally different."