I think one of the many signs that I read that finally convinced me “okay, this is the place to be” regarding MLism was the sheer diversity in both race, nationality, walks of life and perspectives in these spaces and the mutual respect between comrades. Like all my time I spent in other leftist spaces (on and offline) was painfully homogenous one way or another, diversity felt less like a natural occurrence and a necessity to function and do justice for everyone or more like a magic clout token to chase after to look cool and woke for social media and it shows, hard.