Hello my nerds, hope you all have a good week 
Remember no crackers
RAHHH, i love chicago footwork im learning it rn, i love dancing so much such a great way to interact with music beyond listening to it
Gotta be my favorite pride flag 🫡
I woke up today forgetting that it’s pride month, and it feels sad because I know the reason why: I’ve distanced myself from LGBTQ+ spaces so much that it just didn’t occur to me like it has for the past few years. Why? Because most of the LGBTQ+ spaces I’ve interacted with are overwhelmingly white, and the experiences with that, as you would expect, are
I don’t know how to explain it better than, LGBTQ+ spaces feels like the Target Queer section. Almost like a hate crime with nothing behind it beyond visibility and rainbows
The whiteness of these spaces is part of why it took me so long to figure it out. I felt out of place and figured I mist be cishet rather than because the whiteness was repellant
I never bothered with grindr both because of my anxiety around sex and also because I keep hearing how racist it is. I got one queer friend online in my friend group when everyone else is pretty damn white. This shit gets kind of lonely fr
So the undocumented Arab man living in an extremely white city in the belly of the beast who was so fed up with seeing his cousins in Palestine be exterminated that he attacked a pro-genocide rally is now considered “mentally unwell”?!?! Unwell because he spoke in broken English? Or was it because he died his hair blonde to be less conspicuous when he purposefully set up incendiary against fascist genocide supporters? Or perhaps he was “mentally unwell” after witnessing everyone around him do nothing about the live-streamed genocide over 18 months?
The smug racists on this platform are outrageous. I’m going to touch grass for awhile and log out.
at first I thought you were talking about the reaction from main stream media, white people are white still
Many such cases.
Doomer [About the State of Hexbear When It Comes to POC]
I’ve been thinking on whether or not I should start limiting myself to c/em_poc and c/mutual_aid again, and I’ve been increasingly feeling like it’s only right that I do so.
Interacting with white leftist ignorance is just too much of a chore and a toll on my mental health that I currently do not need right now. Hexbear isn’t immune to it. In fact, I feel like too many crackers on this site are blinded by the “I’m one of the good ones” mentality to a point that they’d never take a step back in their life to sit and wonder if there’s any way they can stop being so fucking upsetting to their EMPOC comrades.
Like I said in this comment,, white Hexbears are not some heightened level of better or less performative than your typical white leftist you’ll find anywhere else.
I’ve been being more and more diligent with the job search and even went about ways of thinking outside the box to see if I can have a more solid chance at landing a gig. Once I actually get a job in the capacity to care for myself, the pattern will stay the same: I will only use this site for c/em_poc and c/mutual_aid, but in this case, I hope I can start using the latter more as a donor than a recipient. Unfortunately, the trans clinic job did not accept me.
It’s really sad for me to sit here and reflect on the fact that, though I’m a newish user, I’ve heard of many past incidences of EMPOC Hexbears leaving this site because of this shit. It’s really depressing, but it’s not shocking, and it’s not like it’s any bit reasonable for me to expect this site to ever get any better about it.
I feel like too many crackers on this site are blinded by the “I’m one of the good ones” mentality to a point that they’d never take a step back in their life to sit and wonder if there’s any way they can stop being so fucking upsetting to their EMPOC comrades.
You’re not doomer. You’re just right.
It will never not be baffling to me that Luigi is a hero but God forbid a non-white person denazifies some genocidal zionists.
The settler & petty boug urge to label anti-colonial violence as “adventurist” reveals the state of things quite clearly.
Not to mention, Luigi has some really iffy stuff on his social media before his arrest. When this got pointed out, crackers went ballistic at how PoC maybe weren’t comfortable jumping to his defense the same way we don’t jump to the defense of Pelosi/Trump’s would-be assassins.
I think it was you (?) who in another thread pointed out the left is so unorganized and deeply unserious that it can’t capitalize on justifiable adventurism and redirect it into material, systemic change. Conditions in Palestine and the Philippines are both worse, yet they managed to have leftists organizing armed resistance while Americans just kind of sit on our thumbs calling AES tankies/crazy/etc.
Bruh mandem said oh hamas and Hezbollah also have problematic views so comparable. Another famous poster went in on frauddogg for not supporting racist chit as critical support. So now critical support being used against poc that look sideways at some shit.
I am trying to find a different piece of work of Lenin that talks about the role the masses in not commenting the national affairs of countries that their nation-state is in imperialist war with but I can’t find it.
Regardless any Global South radical knows this, whether through explicit radical theory or through culture, of not interfering in other people’s affairs especially when you lack the knowledge or ability to affect it.
But in the meanwhile I found this which I find perfect for this context in Opportunism, and the Collapse of the Second International:
Kautsky wants to represent the golden mean, and to reconcile the “two extremes” which “have nothing in common”! Today (sixteen months after the outbreak of war) he admits that the masses are revolutionary. Condemning in the same breath revolutionary action, which he calls “Abenteuer” “in den Strassen”[4] (p. 272), Kautsky wants to “reconcile” the revolutionary masses with the opportunist leaders, who have “nothing in common” with them—but on what basis ? On the basis of mere words! On the basis of “Left-wing” words of the “Left-wing” minority in the Reichtag! Let the minority, like Kautsky, condemn revolutionary action, calling it adventurism, but it must feed the masses with Left-wing words. Then there will be peace in the Party, unity with the Südekums, Legiens, Davids, and Monitors!
I am 100% convinced that for the majority of the Hexbear user base, that if they started living in a Global South country they’d turn to a NATO-supporting liberal so fast. Simple class interests.
Suddenly all this posturing of being part of a “radical” political minority falls flat.
Im wondering how it would be received if one points out that possibly the biggest reason next to hell maybe bigger than class , America doesn’t have healthcare, public spending etc that resembles even socdem levels is because of racism both anti black and towards the latino population with all the border fear mongering (asian folks as well). Hell race and class intertwined a lot because America been kind of a caste system for a while.
People like Frederick Ludwig Hoffman justified African Americans being charged higher insurance premiums with race science and he is very influential since then in the industry and the zeitgeist. His works were part of what was used to argue against a single healthcare system. Teddy Roosevelt at a critical time was promoting social healthcare and Hoffman stepped in to oppose it. The insurance company he work with were critical in what stopped the idea of single healthcare system proliferating.
Hell several insurance companies still charged higher insurance premiums blatantly for black people until 1984. Hell education system too zip codes and all that. These are just a few examples
Its no coincidence why chuds hell even libs point to racial homogeneity as a reason for why Japan china norway etc have better healthcare etc. It ain’t no coincidence even lib politicians are subtle about the replacement theory with immigration. I ain’t gonna say no class because class will always be a constant struggle but in a society with damn near caste system where race and class are treated almost the same down to material conditions for a long time there with a few exceptions its hard to ignore this shit.
I ain’t gonna say no class because class will always be a constant struggle but in a society with damn near caste system where race and class are treated almost the same down to material conditions for a long time there with a few exceptions its hard to ignore this shit.
The Wretched of the Earth quote
In the colonies the economic substructure is also a superstructure. The cause is the consequence; you are rich because you are white, yon are white because you are rich. This is why Marxist analysis should always be slightly stretched every time we have to do with the colonial problem.
Oh Americans definitely eat shit if it means someone they don’t like has to smell it. Liberals become rabid fascists when you suggest open borders should be a thing. Even the way “”““progressives””“” talk about homeless people is enough to make you gag. The US organizes its classes based on where they are in the cishet WASP hierarchy, especially when people have less money.
I casually said the line, “Heterosexuals are the white people of sexualities,” while talking to someone, and I don’t know why it goes so hard.
Those SA refugees about to be in for a shock when they find out they won’t be able to afford the private schools they always send their kids to and your foreign degrees will be under scrutiny like a mf when job hunting.
Something tells me they’ll be alright in this country
They may be fine by our or normal standards but back home they lived like kings basically. Domestic workers at their beck and call. Its gonna be a major downgrade. And they’re spoiled af. The only dialogue I remember with em is some or other type of complaint.
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Saw a dude with a keffiyeh print durag today
Never liked that amy schumer character but her weaponising Jewish allyship with poc to gain support for this genocide will always piss me off
I grew up around a lot of Jewish kids and many of them would do this. At first I thought “wow, I didn’t know Jewish people were that much into civil rights” but now when I take their allyship, and the comments I also heard like “They were hiding in hospitals so it had to be bombed”, then I know they’re just trying to take credit for civil wins to spend on downplaying war crimes.
Its fucked because there are plenty who ars genuine about thr allyship but ones like schumer marguiles hammer the poc and lgbt saying oh they wouldn’t accept you in Palestine unlike in Israel. That good old western spin.
Always with the White Man’s Burden shit. “They are uncivilized therefore indiscriminate bombing is good, actually.” They just switched from Christianity, art, music, and literature to civil rights.
This is like a daily discussion here.
There is also those who point out the gdp differences between Palestine and Israel. I fucking wonder why that is
I mean, neither would accept poc let’s be honest. I used to work for a palestinian guy and he’d be racist to me all the time
Don’t extrapolate your lived experienced though.
I’d wager no one else in this Earth has as much settler-colonial brainworms as Americans, Israelis, Australians, and so forth
I don’t think people outside of America would be any less racist to poc in America
I don’t think people outside of America would be any less racist to poc in America
I argue it would have a more potent racism, due to it functionally justifying their society and economic mode of production, built upon the basis of dispossessing indigenous people’s land and livelihoods and expanding this further else upon their region. In essence, their identity, economy, society requires that racism live, more longer, compared to Palestine, which has lack of need for it.
I was assuming you’re generalizing and equating Falastinis with Israelis, in terms of racism, but as much as a Falastini will be racist to you, Israelis would be worse, due to the material system that racism lives with, and is in fact, supported by.
I don’t really think it makes a material difference to the individual
do they think that the patients in the hospitals wouldn’t hear a missile being fired right above them?
Even when I didn’t understand what isntreal was doing back then, I knew blowing up hospitals because “terrorist are hiding in them” sounded insane. I assumed they were empty/evacuated because no reasonable person would thinking blowing up an occupied hospital because “terrorists” are hiding in them is a good solution.
Remember that time Obama drone striked a hospital Doctors Without Borders was working out of? I don’t even remember who they were planning on taking out. Like he did it just because he could.
leftist game club
by leftist, they mean vote blue, Trump is icky, and they have anti-fascist flags
I know it’s reactionary to not want to agitate and organize, but I really don’t feel like getting these crackers in shape. Some of them are volunteering to do free labor for a “small business owner,” who may be the only one who’s actually read any theory. And by theory, I mean The Communist Manifesto and Animal Farm.
vote blue, Trump is icky, and they have anti-fascist flags
Chud: “Sounds like a communist to me.”
My cousin decided to marry a redneck and now she doesn’t want to spend time at any of the family reunions because they’re racist. Its not even like her husband isn’t, he’s pretty openly racist, but IDK. I would say I feel bad for her, but it seems like that’s her type anyway so
My half-sister married a crypto fascist and I’m banned from her house, so that’s neat.
She always trying to invite my mom and me over to where they live. I could never. No one is going to be racist to my face and think I’m not going to say shit.
Saying shit is why I’m banned lmao
White people ran out of ideas with South Africa, with other colonies they’re like “oh the technology, the education” there they’re like “the white farmers” what do you mean white farmers? was they lack of melanin making the plants grow faster?
NEW THREAD DANCE
That’s a real nice chicken you got there.
