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  • A lot of westerners take middle east’s casual racism, sexism and homophobia as a sign of Israel’s progressiveness, when in reality the zionist entity is a competitive player, putting gay people in prison is a rookie move when you can black mail them into doing terrorism and being informants [insert clever way to include how female IOF soldiers that are available for marriage are presented during birth right tour].

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      taps sign

      It’s White Man’s Burden: 2025 edition

      (please ignore how racist, sexist, homophobic, classist, antisemitic, and transphobic the west is towards its own population)

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      A lot of westerners, unfortunately, really have fallen for the lie that the Global North is more “advanced” in terms of LGBTQ+ rights, women’s rights, etc. than the Global South. Pinkwashing would no longer be as handy for deception if more of them knew this wasn’t the case. The West is quite clearly still incredibly bigoted towards anyone who isn’t white, cishet, a man, etc.

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    Glad Hulk Hogan dead but annoyed with all the white people on reddit-logo saying “I don’t agree with his views but you’re a piece of shit for celebrating his death” dear lord the amount of lmayo giving a shit about him is astounding. Like you’re clearly defending him if you keep asking for us to respect him after he died for his family like nah no dice.

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      white guilt is just virtue signalling at best and a self indulgent treat for masochists at worst

      if you really feel bad about it then give me your house

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    why do so many people get away with being so vocally “pro-Palestinian” and “anti-genocide” but you work at IBM/Microsoft/PwC/insert other company that directly contributes to the genocide ??? how are you so SHAMELESS?

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    Trying to decipher how much of my personality is appeasement mannerism come about from being big and brown and folx idk sometimes I feel bad for experiencing emotions that could be seen as threatening and it’s just exhausting. Definitely feels like I’m playing a stereotype for acceptance and a pessimistic part of me tells myself people just keep me around to feel better about themselves.

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        Right, they’re good to feel and I do with my family but outside with white people I sometimes feel like I gotta keep a happy dopey mask on. I also tend to come off as very apologetic and it’s hard to turn off

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          Sounds like we might have the opposite approach to the same problem and are both suffering because the problem itself isn’t one that can be fixed without fixing white people. It feels like a damned no matter what you do thing. I don’t have the capacity to mask anymore but then I keep getting in trouble with white people for being open and honest about being a human being and having feelings that aren’t just “I’m a bhoddisattva”. It’s frustrating, but the price of playing nice is frustrating too.

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            yea it’s very much a white people in general thing but I’m not holding my breath on them changing anytime soon just getting worse. badeline-disgust I’ve grown sicken with how many of them might have only been kind to me because of a white savior complex I’m dead certain that’s the case to every white church I’ve frequented growing up with friends.

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        My place is flip a coin levels, it very much depends on what side of town I’m at the places I can relax vs I have to move fast but not too fast out of kind of deal.

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        Almost. It really started in February of last year. I’ve had a few pockets of grace, but they didn’t last long.

        One job I got terminated without explanation and the other was a temporary position which sucked anyway (especially due to issues like misgendering and microaggressions) so I left before it even ended but it was close to ending when I did.

        A few other jobs seemed like promising offers but ended up being misleading and deceptive.

        Since this is the only instance where I leveraged networking to increase my chances of getting a job, this one seems to be far more likely to land.

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    I hate the white cracker treat brain. “I come here to escape real-world problems.” Motherfucker, if you can turn that part of your brain off, it’s not really a problem for you, is it?

    I do not get the privilege of telling the cops “Yeah I don’t feel like doing a racist ableism right now. Can we reschedule this for Thursday?” with them responding all “Okay that works for us, too! We’ll be back to do our racial profiling then! Please meet us again right here.”

    If I can’t rely on the people in this space to not whine about how something happening is affecting their ability to consoom without thinking about the thing, it means I have to keep my guard up. You get to zone out, while I have to go through the effort of watching what I say in case some fuckwad thinks it’d be funny to send false reports to ICE/the FBI/local police/Social Security Admin/the IRS as the least harmful scenario that could play out.

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      It gets even worse when you try to bring up politics in their favorite escapism, I’m in the weird case where I do like it and see a lot of potential in some lib media but I have to remind myself it’s still lib media. Racism is just here is usually some dumb fuck saying something and the heroes giving an epic clapback instead of anything systemic tear down of institutions that keep minorities down. Hereos can stop a world ending threat but “oh no don’t fight the cops they’re just doing their jobs” it’s only a few bad apples shit.

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      As an American, I agree. We have the absolute worst takes you’ll ever see and they’re posted all over social media, “news” outlets, etc. It’s a constant barrage of brainworms, liberalism, treatlerite, fascist word salad.

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    rant about non-vegan bullshit in medicine

    I fucking hate how medications are not vegan. Basically, every single medication is tested on animals, and a lot of them contained animal-derived ingredients. I’m going to see if I can get some sort of animal-free version of my meds, but I probably can’t sweat it too much if I can’t. I’m also getting my HRT and antidepressants covered by a trans charity who works with a local pharmacy of mine, so I really don’t financially have access to external sources that might have a solution for this. Ugh.

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      Just kinda came to this realization year back when I took antibiotics for a tooth abscess, unless otherwise stated everything is bound to have gelatin sadly. I’m on Medicaid so don’t know if I got a lot of options too

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    Seeing white Americans hating HOA is nice but attributing it to sexism (Karens) instead of their own racist ass practices does make me angry ngl. Not gonna defend either but gonna enjoy watching them fight

  • I’m getting back on the plant based wagon after falling off for a long while. Feels really great. It’s been a work in progress for a while, but most of my meals are starting to be plant based and it makes me happy 😊

    I’m stressed about mass deportation, but still doing my best to get out there and resist ICE despite being part of their target demographic. I figure being out in front is safer since I can at least partially set the terms of engagement. I really don’t want to be blindsided, I’ve already accepted that bad shit will happen. I just don’t want it to be a surprised when it finally does.