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Meta level: I hate these reddit type comments where each person picks out a number of things in the previous response and goes through them one-by-one.

Your top-level post isn't the one I am thinking of, it was a comment in a big struggle session. Hexbear talks about this sphere of problems quite often; a dating post gets around a hundred upvotes and comments at least once a week (1 2 3 4 etc). Since Hexbears are Chapo emigres and Chapo posters were selected from Reddit demographic, there's a lot of nerdy young men here who have opinions about modern dating. I'm one of them.

Yes, there are lots of racist liberals. That sucks but it shouldn't be a surprise to any kind of leftist. Do note though, that not every person with a history of dating a certain kind of person is doing so because of (un)conscious racial biases. Many people live, study, and work in segregated places because of structural causes. Many people date classmates, neighbors, and coworkers, who are coming from these unfortunately pre-filtered pools. Your friend who has gone on a hundred Tinder dates but never with a black guy? Probably racist. Your friend who dated a high school sweetheart and married her college boyfriend? Not enough evidence. This social bubble filtering is not just racial but along class, politlcal, etc. lines and has implications for political organizing.

They just have strong political beliefs but nothing real to back them up

I was confused by this and assumed you were trying to say that hexbears aren't doing praxis. I think you are trying to accuse hexbears of not having a coherent political theory, so rather than arriving at political beliefs like anti-Zionism from first principles they're just kind of doing what's popular? If I'm understanding this correctly you're quite wrong. If Marx reincarnated was browsing this board he still might not give a shit about lonely American men. As I pointed out earlier, factually posters here do care about lonely men (probably since many of them are lonely men), but it's certainly possible for people to have serious, coherent political belief systems that just do not prioritize the issue. For instance,

• A third-worldist might argue that first-world workers, who materially benefit from superprofits, have no revolutionary potential. It's more important to focus on aiding organized workers in the imperial periphery.
• A feminist might argue that sexism primarily benefits bourgeois men but also provides significant benefits to all men. Men's loneliness is an unfortunate byproduct of male oppression of women, but even this will not convince men to give up sexism en masse because they materially benefit from sexism. Women's liberation will ultimately come from women; it's better to organize women rather than spend time on the ultimately dead-end effort to get men to betray sexism.