(can't post link currently as their site is down again lol)
Not only did they not differentiate gender between cis and trans, it also came out that they're like 80% white and they instantly got into a struggle session because the admin said that number was "unfortunate" can't make this shit up lmao
do you think hexbear ISNT 80% white? like I love yall (most of yall), but yall are uh not always normal about black people, nor do yall tend to have any sensitivity about it. Like do we not remember the kobe bryant stuff? a bunch of black users left the sub, I did too but I came back to you idiots (lovingly). but yeah I would never recommend hexbear to my black irl friends because yall would embarrass me.
edit: oh look someone trying to start the kobe discourse again, im not even gonna debate you this convo is so overplayed, write about it in your diary.
iirc we had a survey ages ago and it was like 90% white or more, so yeah this thread is absolutely pot/kettle territory
This is tough to hear, but fair.
hey there's enough of yall chill mayos that i came back! so I think we could improve as a site definitely. LIke i remember a bunch of users dismissing the importance of affirmative action (annoying) , but they changed their minds when I explained its impact. I really felt heard and thats why I like stick around.
There was the Kobe stuff, which was very insensitive but can be chalked up to Reddit style edgelord behaviour
The time people chased off someone that did actual real world groundwork, like organising their neighbourhood, by calling her a black nationalist was just straight up unacceptable to be honest. Can't remember weather it happened on Reddit or here.
That was Reddit. Related to
oh shit I dont remember that but I cant say im surprised.
It's really obvious because whenever race comes up, Hexbear acts so fucking weird about it. It's also why I haven't left Twitter even under the Musk regime. On Twitter, you can at least see people's faces and curate a TL where no one there is white, but everywhere else on the Anglophonic Internet, including here, will be super majority white on top of many alleged nonwhite accounts being some white person behind it a la /r/asablackman. White people fake being Indigenous to the point where actual Indigenous people have to coin a term for it called pretendian and they do the same for other ethnic groups, especially for Black people as a form of digital blackface.
The only solution to the mayo problem is to either use social media where self-doxxing your face is completely normalized like Twitter or learn another language that white people don't really speak (Chinese, Hindi, Arabic, Vietnamese) and use social media of that language.
A lot of US latinos are pretendians too. Ask them to list a tribe and you'll get a vague "Aztec" or "Mayan." Maybe Nahual for the more educated ones.
This site does have a pretty strong white slant, but the anglosphere internet as an entirety does. There's been an uptick in Indian, African, and Caribbean voices; but it still gets drowned out by majority white voices. I personally go back and forth between here and Spanish social media pages, but it's not like the issue doesn't exist in Spanish spaces either. You'll still get plenty of white Latin Americans and Euros whining about stupid shit.
I used to be friends with this white puerto rican girl. she was awful for many many reasons , but one of them was that she only identified as taino like if you called her white she would get upset and say she was indigenous. I would ask her things about taino culture at first until I realized she literally knew less than nothing except this weird noble savage fantasy. Also this girl was as white as the driven snow and would constantly complain about how brown hispanics treated her so badly for being "Light skinned".
im learning spanish! but yeah theres not a great solution. we could write our usernames on our arms like the black twitter sub lol (jk...but am i?)
Lmao if everyone did this and put it on their wallpapers. Itd be like when the warren staffers put their campaign numbers on their arms
English internet is good for one thing: to practice English language.
Fuck whites.
Yeah that's what I thought when reading the title lol
As much as you guys want to sweep it under the rug, hexbear was created after the subreddit got banned. We're still roughly the same demographic as reddit
Way worse imo was when DMX died, many users were sad about it, and some people were like "uh, didn't he have some homophobic lyrics??"
I think they may have done the same with Doom, but Fantano told them Doom was good (and he is, but you shouldn't need Fantano to tell you that).
dude I remember that, that was pretty bad. imagine seeing someone be sad and NEEDING to pop in with the "um actually a rapper from the 90s was homophobic so you being sad is wrong".
What happened with the Kobe stuff? Not trying to rehash anything, but I joined up here later on and would like to know what happened in this community if it did turn away a bunch of black users.
Anyone feel free to DM instead if you don't want to potentially start up a new discussion on this if it's a problematic subject
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I think it's gotten better since the subreddit (and I hope it continues to), the tides have definitely shifted a bit. Lowkey feel like your comment calling out insensitivity would've been either ignored or downvoted back then.
I remember a few years back, someone on the sub was massively downvoted and attacked for saying you can't be racist against white people for a mayocide joke, in the same way you can't be heterophobic or cisphobic. On hexbear? Definitely less white fragility but it's still here
Anyways, what I like about this community is I think most people are more willing to listen to POC voices than in other white dominated spaces. But it also seems like race issues aren't talked about even 5% as much as class issues are, and when they are, it's usually approached very vaguely. Being a good ally takes learning and listening
"I think it's gotten better since the subreddit (and I hope it continues to), the tides have definitely shifted a bit. Lowkey feel like your comment calling out insensitivity would've been either ignored or downvoted back then."
oh 100% ive been told im over sensitive so many times on the old sub by edgelords. I wish i could give everyone homework lol.
also, little off topic, but ever since the sub I always assumed most posters were straight white millennial american men... and the white millennial part is obv still true, but if there's one thing I'm glad to have learned it's that we're super diverse in terms of gender/sexuality. probably a big reason I like this a lot more than any other leftist space, but I really wish the diversity extended to race too. most of you are really cool tho, the pros outweigh the cons for sure
Recommending white people in general to your black friends is usually a bad idea
yeah.... back when I still had white friends was determined to never them them meet my other friends.
Are you suggesting it's a bad thing that people who idolize a sexual abuser were made to feel uncomfortable here? And that it means we're racist?
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