Too many (not all) modern "progressives", particularly on Reddit (but also USA in general) are often simply ridiculous.
You know what's actually offensive and racist?
When you get offended on behalf on people from other cultures (which you are completely ignorant about) as if they are not capable of judging what they should be offended by on their own and they need you to lecture them.
When you are so privileged (despite constantly complaining about said privilege) that you have to invent problems just to make yourself feel like a better person under the disguise of activism, such as the term "latinx" (admittedly, this is an extreme and no one cares about it in reality, not even on Reddit, but I'm just trying to make a point) from native English speakers who are too ignorant to realize that grammar in different languages works differently and that this is not (designed to be) offensive.
When you group "people of color" together as if they have anything to do in common just because they're "non-white", a categorization which implies "white" to be the default.
When you are so obsessed with skin color that you immediately categorize people based on that of all things, so your language and overall behavior suddenly switch to a different mode when interacting with them. When you don't even treat your "friends" with different skin color as real friends like you do with your other friends, but as tokens, because you see their entire existence as a political issue and an opportunity for your patronizing savior complex nonsense and bizarre whining and pitying, as if those people's entire personality is limited to their skin color, as if they're not capable of anything more and as if they need your constant sympathies and being put on a pedestal like special snowflakes.
When you act like plain "white" is an applicable category everywhere outside of America and you automatically apply American history, problems and concepts (which are real things that I acknowledge and sympathize with, as should the entire world) like "white privilege" as if there is no such thing as monoethnic countries where being "white" is therefore a complete non-factor (because literally everyone is white in these plces and always has been), then proceed to dismiss not only people's opinions, but more like their entire existence and all their real struggles in life on the basis of (your assumption of) their skin color. This is your idea of an "anti-racism" campaign?
Before the inevitable generalizations from self-proclaimed open-minded people show up, I'm left-wing in every way, just not this often ridiculous and hypocritical American left-wing which doesn't even seem to really care about fundamental or just real left-wing issues and instead hyperfocuses on the weirdest semantics which achieve nothing other than further alienation and division, ironically.
I remember when people weren't this divided and radicalized. For example, when the concepts of what it means to be a "real men" and a "real women" were condemned for being outdated stereotypes, when the end goal was to be your own human being whose personality, interests and so on are not defined by being a man or a woman, but now, these modern "progressives" are suddenly doubling down on all that typically conservative nonsense, and even coming up with even more such arbitrary categorizations and stereotypes. This does not align with the left-wing ideals and beliefs that I have known and supported my whole life, at all. It feels like going backwards.
Make no mistake, the right-wing is also especially radicalized these days, especially in America,too, and nothing I'm saying here would make me switch over to that side, neither would I ever recommend that. I'm not a right-wing ally and I don't want to be identified as such by bad actors. I had to write this disclaimer simply because, again, some of these people are so open-minded that they live by this "with us or against us" limited mentality characterized by a lack of critical thinking skills and real arguments, just like a typical right-winger... Ironic.