I think this is one of the reasons that I bounced off my local DSA because ultimately it was run by relatively wealthy white (cis) people. I say this as a white person who came from some privilege, I don’t think privileged white people have much to lead and teach with in revolutionary struggles. I can only speak for myself but the process of realizing the privilege you experience is problematic and unjust and beginning to extract your mind from it leads naturally to a psychology motivated from guilt, internal conflict and an apathy since for people like me we have no fucking clue what joy means outside of the system (however you want to define it) because we have never had to think about it. People like me are complete children when it comes to this.

Black people, indigenous people, hispanic people, women and LGBTQ people, poor people… any group of people that faces racism and discrimination every day and have been denied the avenues to joy that are provided within the system are intimately familiar with what it means to resist with a radical joy. I think the “white people can’t dance” stereotype connects to this, I have never in my life danced as a form of joyous resistance and reclamation of the joy in my body because I am always thinking about whether I am dancing the right way in order to be rewarded by the established standards of the system. Ok, so I just don’t like dancing because I get self conscious but also the idea of moving my body in ways that just makes me happy is completely foreign to me because I have internalized a worldview that never considers something like this as an avenue towards joy (and when I do discover one, my worldview tries to isolate it as an edgecase).

I guess what I am saying is that I think this article is about race, sexuality and the consequences of privilege without recognizing it?