Hello em_poc hexbears! I'm so sorry this thread is late today, totally my bad. I hope the new year has been good for you all so far! Any plans, goals, resolutions? I'm going to try to read more theory this year!

As always, this thread is EM POC ONLY

  • Blockocheese [any]
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    1 day ago

    I love how we're always expected to prioritize whites' feelings about being called racist over actual racism

    I love even more when self hating people of color prioritize their pet cracker's feelings over racism

    • Belly_Beanis [he/him]
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      1 day ago

      One holiday where I got in a struggle session with my family over how voting for racists makes you a racist and I "really hurt their feelings" when I called racist crackers racist. I responded "I don't care. They could avoid being called racist if they stopped doing racist shit." I'm currently banned from my sister's house because I similarly shit all over my brother in law's crypto fascist bullshit. Again, because I upset him.

      Nobody ever sticks up for me in these situations. I'm expected to tiptoe around their kitchen table klan rallies but they're never told to not say awful shit about minorities, LGBTQ+ people (which I'm not but have friends and other family who are), or poor people (which I am disabled and reliant on others to survive).

      I've put up with this shit for years and finally got fed up and issued ultimatums.

      • Lemmygradwontallowme [he/him, comrade/them]
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        1 day ago

        Nobody ever sticks up for me in these situations. I'm expected to tiptoe around their kitchen table klan rallies but they're never told to not say awful shit about minorities, LGBTQ+ people (which I'm not but have friends and other family who are), or poor people (which I am disabled and reliant on others to survive

        Wow, what a fuckin' echochamber... no wonder some suburb-brained people criticize the inner-cities (because it ain't their world they're controlling)

        • Belly_Beanis [he/him]
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          21 hours ago

          You'd think it was Mad Max outside from the way suburbanites talk about the world. Our homicide rate is negligible and 99% of the time, the people involved knew each other. But whitey talks about it like a whole blonde haired, blue eyed family was gunned down in broad daylight at the Home Depot while a bunch of us cheered because the mom wished the cashier "Merry Christmas."