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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.

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.

I hate that I misread “executive”

I’M BLACK, AND I’M PROUD!!!

Dreadlocks getting washed 2nite

Impressed with how well my journey has been with growing freeforms

Takes a lot of patience but very little effort

I love how I’m seeing tons of white liberal women on social media constantly say “Kamala lost because of misogyny” while not bringing up white supremacy at all. It’s strikingly funny to me how often they’ve avoided mentioning the racial aspect because they’d feel too complicit in contributing to not just Kamala’s loss but the very racist institutions responsible for keeping POC oppressed themselves if they actually were to address these things.

This reminds me of this comment of mine.

I literally saw a post that showed Trump voter stats for race and gender, but they were completely separate, and white people and men as groups were roughly the same percentage, but this liberal white woman commented on the post, “Wow, men are not okay” or something to that effect. This is just reinforcing the theory that many Western white feminists do not care about ending oppression; they just want patriarchy to stop inconveniencing them personally. They’ll side with white supremacy if given the chance.

On top of that, all of these various scratched liberal moments have been excellent case studies on how little liberals care about oppression that doesn’t personally impact them. Hell, they actually want to keep it flourishing! Any liberal who says otherwise is just doing the typical performative, bourgeois bullshit.

And this isn’t even me going into the obvious flaws of focusing so much on identity as the foremost reason why Kamala lost while neglecting a multitude of many other reasons.

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The reality of being EMPOC on this site, unfortunately…

I don’t know how to describe the jealousy I have right now

will try, thank you (obviously I’m on a break from communities beyond c/em_poc and c/mutual_aid rn though)

Having a very hard time keeping it together right now…

It’s one thing to be going through such tough feelings; it’s another thing altogether to feel like there’s nothing you can do about it.

It’s so damn tempting to be a doomer and assert that this site will never truly be comfortable for EMPOC users, but I want to have some degree of hope.

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I hear you.

I feel very hopeless and invisible too often. Because of how “rare” my circumstances seem, I question if things will ever truly improve for me.

I have a bit of bloomer capacity, but eh, as of late especially, it hasn’t been the best. I feel like there has been far more racist, bigoted bullshit on the internet than usual. So much that it’s even reaching its worst on Hexbear.

Sounds about white.

Reminder that the tendency for Hexbear to be as uncomfortable for POC as it is stems from the fact that there are so many cracKKKers here and none of them want to be held accountable. None of them want to decolonize their minds because why would they? White supremacy is just too precious of a benefit for these ghouls.

Hexbear is not intersectional nor has it ever been. Can it become that way? I can only hope.

White people are notorious for taking a single marginalized group that they’re a part of and acting like it makes them an “innocent wittwe victim 🥺” who can no longer oppress or do anything wrong. White women and white queers are perfect examples of this. This isn’t to downplay the bigotry they face, but like I’m saying, their primary issue with that bigotry tends to be that it personally inconveniences them. They don’t want to actually end oppression as a whole. White supremacy is just too beneficial for them, and they’re too selfish to give up that benefit.