The casual reactionary comments are alienating, absolutely. But I know that this is something we have to educate out of potential new members at different orgs (one of the reasons to have front groups is to keep such people quarantined). None of our orgs will be completely free of it, though we can get 99.9% there with good internal policing.

What bothers me more is that liberals actively fight against material security for the marginalized. Some vaguely left person is primarying an important enabler of genocide? Suddenly brown people don’t matter and you’re being “divisive”. Trying to create a universal healthcare program? Suddenly their support for, say, trans people getting healthcare (any healthcare!) evaporates in a miasma of half-truths and personal vendettas.

We shouldn’t tolerate reactionary language, but if the two could be decoupled and we could produce actual material demarginalization despite things like “I drew Trump as gay aren’t I funny?” it wouldn’t be nearly so evil.