“Always believe women no matter what”

That’s literally what people mean when they say “believe women.” If you don’t think so, try asking them if there’s any room for exceptions. The thread here shows what kind of answers you’ll get to that. Mostly dismissiveness and personal attacks, because they can’t grapple with the fact that sometimes, some women make false accusations and the resulting conclusion that that means we can’t always believe every allegation just because it was made by a woman.

Just because I’m a leftist doesn’t mean I have to conform to the more braindead takes we see in leftist spaces like “any man who’s been accused of sexual violence must be guilty because I said so” or how about this gem “black people can’t be racist”

Tax the rich, yeah. Fund healthcare and education, improve worker’s rights and promote unionization, create social programs that build community at the local level and lift people out of poverty, homelessness, addiction, or whatever else they might be struggling with, fund welfare for people who can’t support themselves due to disability, protect public lands, restore ecosystems, develop public transportation infrastructure, reduce fossil fuel reliance and transition to renewables, take whatever climate action you can, fund research and development (primarily through public universities, and for the public domain rather than corporate IP). These and so many others like them are the kinds of leftist policies that I unequivocally support.

But make me walk on eggshells for the rest of my life because the more minority status a person has the bigger pedestal we need to put them on, leaving me as a cishetero white man at the bottom of this new social hierarchy where I’m not even allowed to defend myself if someone claims I said or did something that I never did and never would? Fuck that, if that’s a requirement for being a leftist then I’ll go start my own political orientation called “leave me the fuck alone.”