saying something this edgy does not absolve you of bigotry

edit: for anyone stumbling into the drama, i probably should have elaborated on this post. I am not saying you can't make fun of white people not being able to eat spicy food or anything, but at some point it becomes self-flagellating. to quote comrade RedQuestionAsker:

It's good to challenge white supremacy in all of its incarnations at all time. It's certainly good to refuse to be proud to be white considering what the concept of whiteness is.

It's another thing to performatively hate yourself in a cocktail of millennial self-deprecation and liberal white guilt. It's not revolutionary, and it's probably not good for you.

that is all. comrades just know i dont hate any of you. i'm not trying to start a slapfight. i just saw this as weird performative behavior and wanted to call it out.

  • keepcarrot [she/her]
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    10 months ago

    3 threads greater than 100 comments. Truly, this is one of the weeks where decades happens. I haven't read any of them.

        • Comp4 [she/her]
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          10 months ago

          My fave struggle sessions are outdoor cats and rockstacking. Absolute evergreens

          • Egon
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            3 months ago

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            • FactuallyUnscrupulou [he/him]
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              10 months ago

              I don't remember the rock stacking struggle session. What was the Hexbear consensus on that? Personally I knock those rock stacks down when I hike by them.

              • Egon
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                3 months ago

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                • 420blazeit69 [he/him]
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                  10 months ago

                  attempts at playing it off as a bit/something silly

                  Ironically, a really bad bit

        • axont [she/her, comrade/them]
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          10 months ago

          The two big ones in the early days were over transphobic users and veganism. We've had a no tolerance policy for transphobia this whole time and that was kind of whiplash for early users. Lots of people with unexamined reactionary views who weren't used to strict guidelines on how to talk about trans stuff. A lot of them were against pronouns in user profiles.

          But the absolute legends will always be outdoor cats and rock stacking next to rivers

            • axont [she/her, comrade/them]
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              10 months ago

              Oh, this week the big thing has been about whether or not it's ok to disparage against white people, like say that you hate white people. And then a struggle over if white people saying cracker is trying to be like one of the good whites. And then a struggle about whites making everything about themselves. It's been wild