EM POC ONLY!!!

This is home for me.

I love all of my comrades on c/em_poc, but I wanna especially give a huge shoutout to @[email protected] for doing a lot to help me keep my composure. I don’t know if they quite realize how much I appreciate them!

Each and every single one of you makes me feel less alone through these struggles, though.

I hope all of you are well! sankara-bass

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    On Instagram, in regards to Sarah McBride being a reactionary, Zionist piece of libshit, I stated

    Reminder that a white person being a part of a marginalized group does NOT absolve them of their whiteness and KKKolonizer mentality

    Fittingly enough, a white trans woman responded, “People who unironically use Maoist Standard English need to be studied.”

    I didn’t even put up with it; I just straight-up blocked.

    It’s pretty obvious what’s going on here. Trans cracKKKer is upset that my very real and true statement struck a nerve, but SShe has no way of responding without taking the mask off and putting the hood on, so what SShe did instead was poke fun at me for using MSE. Basically, it’s an ad hominem SShe used to KKKompenSSate for her being a SSalty KKKraKKKKKKer.

    What’s even more telling about this is that MSE intends to sprinkle humor into statements regardless, but usage of it obviously doesn’t lessen the accuracy of what I’m saying.

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    Even for forms of bigotry not directly related to race, marginalized white people in leftist spaces seem to seriously have far less skepticism than I do as an intersectional black person in leftist spaces.

    For instance, as a black trans person, not only do I expect white people in leftist spaces to have racist brainworms, but I expect cis people in leftist spaces to have transphobic brainworms as well.

    However, it seems like white trans people in leftist spaces, on the other hand, not only ignore their own racist brainworms, but it seems that so many of them just all willy-nilly assume that your average cisgender person in leftist spaces is going to be totally accepting of trans people and not have any strong transphobic brainworms whatsoever.

    I find that they don’t have enough skepticism, but I do believe that I’m on the opposite end of this issue, in that I have too much skepticism. It’s to a point where I feel that somebody being white and/or cis in and of itself is a major red flag for me.

    A kind-of-an-example-of-this-but-not-really I recall is when a user on Hexbear posted a thread about SSouth KKKorean gender troubles, and they referenced the 4B movement and praised it as some kind of “epic, based WAOW! feminist movement,” and many trans users were commenting on this post praising 4B as well. After it came out that 4B is racist, bioessentialist, and just flat-out awful in so many ways, people were cringing at themselves.

    What’s my point? Well, if I hear about any female separatist movement, especially in a place like Occupied KKKorea, my first thought isn’t going to be, “Wow, this is epic girl power and a powerful middle finger to patriarchy!” Instead, my first thought is going to be, “Let me research this group and find out about all of the terrible shit that they support, and while I’m at it, let me acknowledge how undialectical their movement is, as it has no demands and it is rooted in zero feminist theory.”

    The fact that womanists have pushed against white feminists doing this shit in the United States educates my skepticism very well here.

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      I hope im not taking away from your point. But Im also highly sceptical of any modern feminist movement that is not somewhere in the far-left spectrum. Feminism without leftist (and yes radical) politics is often just a moment away from declaring hillary clinton a girlboss.

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        I 100% agree with you because mainstream feminism is extremely liberal, non-intersectional, bioessentialist, and effectively amounts to “reactionary thought and white supremacy in heels” more than anything else.

        I may never label myself as a feminist again, but I take no shame and nothing but pride in calling myself a womanist.

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    I watch one video on that Johnny Somali guy and now Youtube keeps pushing me videos that sell a narrative about black expats being the problem Asian countries face. Conveniently ignoring the massive amount of white sexpats that have an affinity for girls under 18.

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    I don’t know if I’m just a bitter old man already but whenever I hear other grown black men whine and complain about being a nerd I find it irksome. Like bro I get it, I was bullied and shit too. I feel for you I really do, but at the same time, we are grown. Just like whatever shit you like man. It isn’t a big deal. No one cares. It’s fine, like what you like, do your thing. It also doesn’t make you special, everyone likes nerdshit now.

    It’d be different we were in like middle-school or high school, but my brother we have 401ks now, just buy your little figures and shut the fuck up.

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      I want my blerd men to HEAL so bad! I noticed alot of them also fell a bit into the look maxing era where they started working out and making themselves a certain type of attractive, but still hold the same hate and disdain from their childhood. Working out and updating looks are fine but leaving out the mental work makes it useless. HEAL BROTHAS, PLEASE!

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      They never got over getting curved by their own people in middle/high school and let that gouge in their mind become their whole personality as an adult. Can’t tell me that’s not a significant source of misleadership.

      EDIT: What still fucks with me sometimes is I absolutely fell down that rabbithole growing up. I was the lil brother whose poetry never rhymed or metered enough to fit a sixteen in middle school, never found my innate rhythm until I learned how to play bass in high school, gravitated more toward peeling computers layer by layer than going up for sports-- then I left my hometown and had to reckon with the fact when I’m not surrounded by as much whiteness as I was, I started flourishing. My pull magnified and expanded by leaps and bound when I left home; and all that aggrieved blerd shit stopped making sense.

      Like, I’m not even gonna go thru the whole ‘seek therapy’ canard; 'cause I got past it without. It just requires a few levels of self-awareness and awareness of the spaces you inhabit.

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        Can’t tell me that’s not a significant source of misleadership.

        For real! So many of the big “black excellence™℠®©” types really ooze with that sort of insecurity. Don’t get me wrong, I’m sure it truly did a number on them in your youth, especially back in the day. I don’t discount that, however I do think at a certain point (especially those with greater means) you continue to victimize yourself by not letting yourself move past that.

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    I noticed something with my immigrant friends, the ones who try to integrate into “American” culture tend to latch on to white pop culture. Like a lot of them talk to me about friends, Seinfeld, and all those white shows from the 90s. I assume these were the shows and stuff that exported internationally just as part of white culture being dominant so it’s not really a fault to them, but I’ve had to explain a little too many times how I’ve never seen those shows and have no idea what they’re referencing. I don’t expect them to know Black culture nor be able to pick it up properly either but it’s just been an interesting thing I’ve noticed, white supremacy goes far.

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    adult white queers who base their identity around Greek mythology are the actual worse. like 90% if them are white supremacist. i will not fuck with them, I genuinely despise them. please grow the fuck up and research any other part of history. if you can tell me about how gay ancient greek and rome were but not any other country you are a queer white supremacist.

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      Cis white men: obsessed about ancient rome and greece because strong alpha male
      Queer whites: obsessed about them because uhm actually they were super gay
      Reality: they’re obsessed about them because they think they were white

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        yes!! exactly! and its not like they study the actual history. the celebrate a fantasy version of ancient Greece free of misogyny and slavey. like I cant tell you how many queer people I’ve heard say things like “I don’t want to go to work, I want to be gay and write poems all day, eating grapes, like i should be doing in ancient Greece” GIRL Sappho didn’t do actual work because she had SLAVES, you’re fantasizing about being a slave owner right now. same thing with white queers who call themselves achilleans. like sapphic is less bad because it has an etymological reason for existing, it has a history. ACHILEANS are white queers who are obsessed with tic tok “retellings” of ancient greek myths that they think are canon. no joke raina i have met dozens and dozens of these people and they are insufferable

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    I find it hilarious that white people are telling me that "I am going to be sorry " for voting green party as if I’m not already sorry to have been born in a country which will never accept me.

    People like us have been facing threat , certainly from the time that we become a sexual threat or quarry to white men. My life has been war from when I was 12 years old until I forced them to stop messing with me.

    So I can’t help but laugh in the face of some white dude who has never felt threatened in his life telling me that I am not accurately assessing the forces arrayed against me.

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    There’s something eerily depressing about the fact that even a “good and expected to be much better than average” leftist space like Hexbear is still incapable of being truly respectful to POC. sadness-abysmal

    It makes me wonder if there is truly any hope for the whites to be decent, even in leftist spaces.

    I’ve been quite depressed all morning, but definitely for more reasons than just Hexbear being this degree of racist that utterly shocked me. I think it’s still getting to me because I’m in such a shock that, for the first time, a Hexbear post led me into a deep depression that made me cry and have to seek mental health support just to calm down enough to go to sleep.

    I never thought this would’ve happened.

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      If they were forced to like they were with transphobia, they would shape up or ship out aside from the wreckers

      Or like with yakubian and pumpkin spice jokes they’d just die out after the site (with mod help) decides it’s unacceptable

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      No , unfortunately there is not much hope for us but we can move the ball forward for the next generations and in the meantime stand in solidarity with the left but also with each other .

      We are still the out group here and that will usually not be acknowledged but during times of stress we will always be the fall guys.

      The only danger is ever thinking that we are not in danger

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      It makes me wonder if there is truly any hope for the whites to be decent, even in leftist spaces.

      I’d love to believe they could be; but I’ve been out of faith there for years. I can only see this life’s purpose as to be suffering anymore; and I don’t know how to un-see that

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        I’ve not had trust in white people for the majority of my life at this point. I don’t remember when I didn’t have that suspicion in the the back of my brain going off. I can tolerate and interact with white people, but the distrust is always there. Too many people who I thought were friends, family, or lovers that would flip the racist switch one the moment I got uppity.

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    Anyone finds the over-use of “fascism” absolutely tiring?

    Like genuinely it feels not only intellectually dishonest but delusional. Just because an individual disagrees with your western sensibilities does not mean they are fascist.

    If you were to be born in the Global South on average you will live 10 years less than if you were born in the Global North.

    In other terms, if let’s say you, an average Global South citizen, live to around 70 years old, that means Global North citizens would live 14% longer.

    But this apparently is not “fascism” (or insert any Big Bad buzzword), just the “normal state of affairs” of the world.

    Westerners surely care about your “rights”, maybe in it’s name, in it’s superficiality, in the abstract, but never in reality, because it obstructs the very fundamentals of the capitalist system, accumulation. In this case, the accumulation of literal years that you live in this finite world.

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      Anyone finds the over-use of “fascism” absolutely tiring?

      Like genuinely it feels not only intellectually dishonest but delusional. Just because an individual disagrees with your western sensibilities does not mean they are fascist.

      Always have. My perennial response is “do you think the hood has ever lived under the ‘democracy’ you claim we have? Have the tenements ever not been subject to what you’d otherwise call ‘fascism’ and crypto-Jim Crow? You’re just scared you’re next.”

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      What’s especially silly is fascism has primarily manifested in the Imperial Core and the times it manifested in the Global South it was backed by a government from the North. The go-to example of fascism in the 3rd. world is Pinochet, who was backed by the US. Pol Pot is iffy because he was a weird Anarcho-Primativist “third position” dictator, but (again) he was also backed by the US and his crimes escalated with American support rolled in.

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    Yo, this mass-deportation talk is scaring the fuck out of me. After working at various immigrants rights orgs, it seriously sounded hyperbolized—cuz like, I know the racist-ass sentiment to mass-deport is strong in America, but I kept thinking that it’s an impossible task, logistically.

    But then lately I’ve been seeing all the “fuck around find out” lib-fash shit and it’s starting to seem like a feasible task. Like how the fuck could it not be if the libs are expressly saying they’ll turn a blind fucking eye.

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    I’m so stressed right now it’s unreal

    The final test is coming next week, this will make or break me. If I pass I can move onto revenue service training and actually start serving the public. If I fail I slow the entire class down and risk getting terminated.

    The ability to test air brakes, properly pre-trip inspect a bus, and actually drive it will demonstrate to the county, state, and fed that I can actually serve the public without being a liability.

    Not only that but I’m banking on this one risky career change to be the last one and successful. I am running thin financially and I need to pass to become a real driver, actually help the community, and make a decent earning.

    My family and friends are watching, the stakes are extremely high.

    I’m trying not to sob

    kitty-cri-potato

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      If you fail there must be a way to retake the test, correct?

      Just so you know , I failed the check ride for my private pilots license, then for my instrument rating and finally, for my commercial license. There was one person, out of at least a thousand, who made it through all of the check rides on the first try. None of that meant that I was a bad pilot , there were people who flew right past me and bragged about it only to watch my career excel as theirs stagnated

      Just do your best and if you fail, be extra prepared for the retake