>After that, I would hear "Ugh, men are awful" in a curious new light. Or someone would say "White people ruin everything" and I would realize, hey, I'm white. This sort of thing began to add up and it became clear that "going left" meant supporting people who had contempt for me, purely on the basis of things like skin color and sex.

See, I would stand up for social justice and protecting women and people of color. But women and people of color don't trust white men so instead, I'm going to not stand for these things instead.

Great logic there. I could tell that you used to be a real leftist template.

How about instead, you stand for women and people of color because it's the right thing to do? Regardless of how little they trust white men. Maybe, just maybe, try and understand why they wouldn't trust white men?