I hate when my distrust of white people proves to be right, lol. I’m at a new college (which is a PWI) and they put us in groups to do orientation activities together, and in that group I think I am one of three(?) non-white students not counting the leader of the group. Yesterday I was doing an activity with that group and I was the only non-white student in the group who showed up, and I had to hear this white person go on and on about how much he would have loved to go back to the Victorian Era because the dresses! The dresses, everyone! Like it was five straight minutes of this before I eventually got to interject that if I went back to the Victorian Era I would be watching my country get torn apart and looted by imperialists. The same white person then went on to make very ableist comments and took offense to me calling them out on it. Thankfully the leader of my orientation group, who was the only other non-white person in the room, stood up for me and made her apologize for being ableist. But yeah I think this person hates me now, and good riddance lol I’m glad that they hate me. If he liked me I would probably be doing something wrong.

Sat in on a class on Cuba yesterday. Seems like it would have some useful information on the history of colonialism and imperialism as it relates to Cuba, but presented through a lib lens. Disappointed but not surprised, my commie friend and I agreed that we would not be taking this class. I know that if I were to attend that class it would just be a class of me arguing with people the whole time.

I’m really uncomfortable with people who say things like “The term ‘[n-word]’ transcends race. It has absolutely nothing to do with ethnicity; it’s all about how civilized or uncivilized a person is, so uncivilized white people would be [n-word]s too!” and other variants of that outlook that try to “deracialize” this heated slur to make it seem more innocuous.

Ignoring the fact that, even if you took this definition at face value, this is still racist as fuck, but also, says who? This view of the gamer word is only taken “seriously” by a few weirdos on 4chan. Nobody you interact with in real life will think this definition makes any sense.

Regardless, words are defined by how we use them, and that use of the gamer word is not mainstream by any means, not even close.

I’m Asian and I’m very hesitant to include myself as a “brown” person even though some people do. In terms of suffering from colorism, I feel like my skin isn’t dark enough and I tend to have more privilege than other brown people. Racist stereotypes of Asians say they’re all super smart and high achievers. Many other racial stereotypes say the complete opposite for other ethnicities of brown people. I feel like I’m stealing victimhood when I say I’m brown.

My anxiety about this is so great, I don’t talk about this at all, not even to my closest loved ones. I don’t want to step on anyone’s toes about this topic of if I’m brown or not. I don’t want to be excluded but I have guilt about being included.

When I’m in an Islamophobic sinophobic competition and my opponent is a liberal talking about how Muslims don’t recognize the Uigur “genocide”

My relationship is going really well. My partner and I have gotten a lot closer over the last couple of dates. They really seem to desire me. It still feels kind of surreal to be in a real relationship after being an isolated hermit for such a long stretch of my life. I’m also going to introduce them to my parents soon (it should go well—my parents are pretty chill).

I find it deeply uncomfortable that even when people here are making fun of chuds, like saying something a chud would say but ironically, they’ll still use language that is racist towards Asians. Like using “Oriental” instead of Asian, using terms like “Asiatic and Mongol (horde)” calling Chinese people dogs, making it seem like all the dudes in Japan are hentai-loving creeps who are barely even socialised (sometimes I get an “oh, Japan…” vibe when people are talking about really gross anime like it’s just part of the Japanese brainpan to be so disgusting), and all the men in Occupied Korea are misogynists. Like yeah, Japan and Korea have a misogyny problem, they produce gross anime and games… but so do westerners. I’m not even sticking up for Japan and SK - but in my opinion, some criticism almost borders on orientalism. Ironic racism is still racism, even if we’re making fun of white (or possibly even POC) chuds saying/thinking it. I dunno, it just rubs me the wrong way.

Speaking of the English language from the last thread, prisencolinensinainciusol!

its Monday. new week. new thread. Should be a good week for me all in all. (Despite a large work related project)

My experiences so far trying to befriend white people for the first time in 10 years:

Transfem commie. Very cool, very cultured in the arts, very fun to joke and hang with. Still friends

Transfem liberal. Said Iranians were just trying to flex on Israel because authoritarianism. Also said I’m lucky to be Asian cause I’m inherently more feminine

Transfem who claims to hate capitalism. Big Kamala/Tim supporter and can’t stop talking about them (they’re so young! And connected to the youth!) even after I showed her policies are not any better than Biden’s. Also obsessed with Waymos

Cis commie. Very artsy, lots in common. We met to just hookup and I tried to hang with her again but ig she just wanted to hit it and quit it :(

Cis commie. Talk about music and party with her a lot. In the industry and I got to meet Jamie XX lol. Still friends

It’s pretty annoying because I don’t want to hate 99% of people I meet but I actually cannot be friends with libs anymore. POC who haven’t read theory generally intuitively understand class conflict pretty well unlike white people

I will never forgive KKKSA, UKKK, Usonia and the zioniSSt entity for ruining Arab internet, everything is just bots

bro i hate being poor

Food racism is so inconsistent like:
racists make fun of east Asians because they eat things white people don’t eat. They also make fun of Muslims and Indians for not eating things white people eat (pork and beef). But they also make fun of Black people for eating things white people also eat???

Talking to liberals every once in a while and getting whiplash from them saying “actually the colonized people weren’t angels”, like fuck you, what is @Angel@hexbear.net then? cause that name surely says angel