Ok but does strategy not matter here? Just righteous anger at the history of white supremacy? I understand your point as well, but unless you really believe the revolution is gonna happen without any white folks collaborating (or only white folks who are down from the start), I’m not sure where your point gets us. And any revolution that doesn’t involve such folks is going to simply be a bloodbath, rest assured, and frankly white folks have the state and the guns and will win it, so you would be advocating a slaughter, in effect.

And keep in mind, this piece is not referring to the kind of white folks who are stone assholes with no empathy. It’s mostly about white folks who are pretty decent folks but who haven’t had to think about privilege much and get caught up in our own hurt around other identities. That behavior can derail their becoming allies, but these are people who are capable of becoming as such — unlike many other white people who aren’t. I don’t advise wasting much time on the latter, but that’s not who I was talking about.

To not care about white folks who have been harmed by the class system, misogyny, or other forms of oppression is not merely a moral issue, it is strategically illogical or so it seems to me. I see no evidence that we can just say “fuck em all” and expect that to result in anything positive. It might make us feel better to say it sometimes, but this isn’t about what makes us feel good, or serves as catharsis. I’ve tried it both ways, and have seen zero evidence that the lack of empathy route works. But good luck with it I guess…