Remember, EM POC only!

Vibes are off. That’s really all I can say about my energy right now.

How are all of the rest of the EM POC comrades?

  • Rojo27 [he/him]@hexbear.net
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    25 days ago

    I usually pull my punches a bit IRL, but if anyone brings up the joke that was made about Puerto Rico at the Trump rally yesterday I’m straight up going to say that any pasty white boy that calls Puerto Rico trash when his country has had a direct hand in impoverishing it should go fucking die in a ditch. Word for word what I’m going to say because I know that its going to come up at some point. I’m fucking tired and irritated by American politics.

    • Lemmygradwontallowme [he/him, comrade/them]@hexbear.net
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      25 days ago

      Forgive me for fedposting but this song’s lyrics now resonate with me, after hearing that racist remark

      "Ang sarap na pugutan ng ulo kung sinuman ang t*nginang nagsabi ng ‘Basta Gapo abno’ "

      translation

      It’d be nice to behead the motherfucker who said that Olongapo is just a shithole


    • Angel [any]@hexbear.netOPM
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      25 days ago

      It’s the exact same energy as when I hear Euros degrade nations in Africa and the Caribbean, as if colonialism hadn’t haunted these places for ages.

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        25 days ago

        Hear a lot from Fr*nchies, “oh we pillaged you and genocided you for 132 years yet you haven’t landed on the moon in 62 years? pfft failed state” like dawg you left us with a literacy rate of 3%, no factories, half the agricultural space used for making wine, millions dead missing and wounded, unfair trade deals, and a thousand other things.

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    22 days ago

    So I made a mistake in engaging in a post about Islam - again - and I told myself before to not engage but I just had to because of the “suspicious” responses in that thread and now I have been accused of occidentalism - a literal reverse racism argument. Not that they’ll even be aware of the term but I didn’t expect people to read the books and articles I listed at the start of my argument (who reads anyways, am I right?)

    And now I wonder why I stopped my break from posting on this site in the first place.

    Maybe you all were right that this site can not be (re)educated. I apologize - I have not interacted enough with white people to know they were like this.

    Going to take a long break.

  • LGOrcStreetSamurai [he/him]@hexbear.net
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    25 days ago

    I hope all my EMPOC homies stay safe. Shit is getting weird. Please plug in with some friends/family/comrade and build healthy networks. There is a real see and unseen vibe shift. Stay woke

  • homhom9000 [she/her]@hexbear.net
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    20 days ago

    White people stop trying me. This guy did not get out of the way when I said excuse me and when he decided to move he went the way I was coming. So I kept going the way I was going and we had to collide. Piss me off. I’m moving into my impatient era and proud of it.

  • Angel [any]@hexbear.netOPM
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    22 days ago

    I’m proud to be black. red-fist

    Overcoming internalized racism has been such a hassle for me, but honestly, have you seen cracKKKers? Fuck 'em. If for nothing else, I’m owning up to black pride out of spite, but I see value in rejecting all the shame that snow roaches and bleach demons have tried to thrust upon me.

    ture-fist

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    24 days ago

    i know it’s probably a good idea to leave my school’s discord server (full of blue no matter who white libs) but i feel compelled to stay there and keep arguing with them. like, it’s not even that i think i’m going to change their minds. it’s that i feel like i just can’t let the absolutely ghoulish stuff they say slide without presenting some challenge to it.

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    20 days ago

    Racism being a bonding process from youth to adulthood for sooooo many and being used as a shit test poc to see if they can be in their inner circle and how much shit they can put up with. Very annoying

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        19 days ago

        Reminds me of a guy I was training around the time Trump made the comment about Haitian immigrants eating cats and dogs and… Yeah… Let’s just say he definitely gave off this vibe whenever he would talk about POC. Just glad I had to deal with him for just a week.

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          19 days ago

          Funny, that anecdote reminds of a time that there was this simmering pro-MAGA student (let’s call him Bon) in my high school who had such similiar vibe

          CW: racism

          (Bon said he’d rather believe COVID came from someone eating bats, not a lab leak, Idk which one’s more worse)

          The kicker. He was in a majority-POC, if not majority-Asian high school area, and either due to him keeping a low key, others just tolerating him, or both, he somehow kept his friendships.

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            19 days ago

            Unfortunately I feel like the pressure to assimilate into American society leads a lot of POC who immigrated or have parents that immigrated to the US to believe that part of that assimilation is to be ok with racism. It doesn’t help that in recent times the mainstreaming of the rightwing perspective of cancel culture or woke has lead a lot of POC to adopt it and let way more shit slide than they should.

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              19 days ago

              believe that part of that assimilation is to be ok with racism

              that IS part of assimilating to america tho. this process is available to all groups except black people, thats how diffrent groups became white over time.

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        19 days ago

        If I got money from hearing “It’s just a joke bro” after some of the worst slurs and stereotype jokes about my ethnicity/race, I could have probably make one down payment for a housing. I can’t believe I didn’t get into more fights in high school and post-secondary.

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        23 days ago

        I feel loads of folks on the left would disagree though.

        If they’re westerners, and ESPECIALLY if they’re white, their opinions don’t fuckin matter, frankly. It’s been feeling like it’s 1 in fuckin 50 so-called ‘comrades’ in the hwhite west that don’t have immortal anti-AES brainworms; and 1 in fuckin 100 that’ll actually cop to the carceral slavery their country perpetrates. Fuck 'em if they disagree, if you don’t have a disciplined party that has an enforced line? Your takes do not matter to me because they’re probably ignorant at best and downright supremacist at worst.

        I don’t trust cracker dogs to be able to deworm and housebreak themselves without an actually-intersectional party behind them anymore.

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    24 days ago

    the white people at my school are deeply unserious. a whole saga has happened this past week that i don’t have the energy to relate right now, but it’s mostly just solidified that i want nothing to do with the vast majority of white people here.

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      but it’s mostly just solidified that i want nothing to do with the vast majority of white people here.

      God if that’s not a mood. Doesn’t matter who wins the election to me anymore; it’s just become clear to me that regardless of who wins, I don’t have enough guns or ammo. This is the year the Earthseed parables start getting blatantly worse and I need to be ready for when the crackers take their masks off.