Remember, EM POC only!

Vibes are off. That’s really all I can say about my energy right now.

How are all of the rest of the EM POC comrades?

  • aen [he/him]@hexbear.net
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    14 hours ago

    diwali in leicester is awesome, you walk through random streets and you just see people lighting fireworks in the middle of the street

    its a lot louder when you’re like directly underneath a massive fucking firework

    you all should come if you ever find the displeasure of being near the midlands of these cursed isles

  • Angel [any]@hexbear.netOPM
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    16 hours ago

    I’m proud to be black. red-fist

    Overcoming internalized racism has been such a hassle for me, but honestly, have you seen cracKKKers? Fuck 'em. If for nothing else, I’m owning up to black pride out of spite, but I see value in rejecting all the shame that snow roaches and bleach demons have tried to thrust upon me.

    ture-fist

  • Neptium [comrade/them]@hexbear.net
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    20 hours ago

    So I made a mistake in engaging in a post about Islam - again - and I told myself before to not engage but I just had to because of the “suspicious” responses in that thread and now I have been accused of occidentalism - a literal reverse racism argument. Not that they’ll even be aware of the term but I didn’t expect people to read the books and articles I listed at the start of my argument (who reads anyways, am I right?)

    And now I wonder why I stopped my break from posting on this site in the first place.

    Maybe you all were right that this site can not be (re)educated. I apologize - I have not interacted enough with white people to know they were like this.

    Going to take a long break.

    • Belly_Beanis [he/him]@hexbear.net
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      18 hours ago

      Meanwhile I’m like the exact opposite lol. I wish I didn’t have this half white bullshit to deal with. It’s really not that great. It’s like half my family is just walking, talking racism machines I constantly have to deal with. Just a barrage of settler-colinialist shit.

      But when I’m amongst the PoC half of my family, all that disappears. I don’t have to deal with the entitlement or persecution complexes or willful ignorance. There’s still some brainworms stemming from liberalism and a lack of theory, but it’s much easier to interact with than reactionary, white supremacist ideology.

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        18 hours ago
        impersonating a yt person

        grillman wow that’s wild how horrible ethnicity are, I’m glad you’re one of the good ones

        I was one of the only ethnic minorities at my secondary school, and wasn’t wise enough to not internalise this self-hating mindset. It’s something people there expected from me, and when I didn’t present myself as subservient to the superior british culture, I was suddenly breaking all kinds of civility and politeness boundaries. And if you do comply then see spoiler.

        Not worth it cringe

  • Neptium [comrade/them]@hexbear.net
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    So I made a mistake in engaging in a post about Islam - again - and I told myself before to not engage but I just had to because of the “suspicious” responses in that thread and now I have been accused of occidentalism - a literal reverse racism argument. Not that they’ll even be aware of the term but I didn’t expect people to read the books and articles I listed at the start of my argument (who reads anyways, am I right?)

    And now I wonder why I stopped my break from posting on this site in the first place.

    Maybe you all were right that this site can not be (re)educated. I apologize - I have not interacted enough with white people to know they were like this.

    Going to take a long break.

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    i know it’s probably a good idea to leave my school’s discord server (full of blue no matter who white libs) but i feel compelled to stay there and keep arguing with them. like, it’s not even that i think i’m going to change their minds. it’s that i feel like i just can’t let the absolutely ghoulish stuff they say slide without presenting some challenge to it.

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    the white people at my school are deeply unserious. a whole saga has happened this past week that i don’t have the energy to relate right now, but it’s mostly just solidified that i want nothing to do with the vast majority of white people here.

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      but it’s mostly just solidified that i want nothing to do with the vast majority of white people here.

      God if that’s not a mood. Doesn’t matter who wins the election to me anymore; it’s just become clear to me that regardless of who wins, I don’t have enough guns or ammo. This is the year the Earthseed parables start getting blatantly worse and I need to be ready for when the crackers take their masks off.

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        I feel loads of folks on the left would disagree though.

        If they’re westerners, and ESPECIALLY if they’re white, their opinions don’t fuckin matter, frankly. It’s been feeling like it’s 1 in fuckin 50 so-called ‘comrades’ in the hwhite west that don’t have immortal anti-AES brainworms; and 1 in fuckin 100 that’ll actually cop to the carceral slavery their country perpetrates. Fuck 'em if they disagree, if you don’t have a disciplined party that has an enforced line? Your takes do not matter to me because they’re probably ignorant at best and downright supremacist at worst.

        I don’t trust cracker dogs to be able to deworm and housebreak themselves without an actually-intersectional party behind them anymore.

  • LGOrcStreetSamurai [he/him]@hexbear.net
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    I hope all my EMPOC homies stay safe. Shit is getting weird. Please plug in with some friends/family/comrade and build healthy networks. There is a real see and unseen vibe shift. Stay woke