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.

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.

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.

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).

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

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

Recommending white people in general to your black friends is usually a bad idea

Like do we not remember the kobe bryant stuff?

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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