Advice from my mother. Pay attention to what people say. They’ll tell you how they are going to treat you. You must listen and take appropriate action. They mean what they say.
This is why “diversity” doesn’t work. As Spock said after Kirk and the away team came back from the evil universe, “You, as a civilized man, could pretend to be a barbarian. But they, as barbarians, could not pretend to be civilized men.”
How true, but in this case, these people can and do pretend (lie) about being "civilized men".
We don't fall for it, but Leftists do, when they aren't fully onboard with the lies.