Building off some good discussion in the other thread today. I’m thinking about how can white Hexbear users can be better here, and in leftist spaces, AND when we engage with the broader BIPOC communities? What are we doing wrong, and what can we do that’s better?
And I 100% get that’s it’s not on marginalized folks to explain it to us. I do. It’s just, at this moment I’m trying not to get overwhelmed with feeling like it’s just not possible to make the world better. Not even get us to socialism, just getting things to be a tiny bit better. I don’t know what else to do. So I’m reaching out to my BIPOC comrades with an open hand. If you feel like sharing, please do.
For the white folks, we need to be better. We do. It may not be comfortable to hear, but we do. Maybe we’re not as bad as the libs and the chuds on this but that’s not a valid measuring stick. Come on.
It is also inclusive of "non" PoC ingenious groups (I know some Sorbs who see themselves as PoC via. the anti-slavism etc. and others not, so the BIPoC term is more inclusive), which marginalized by European anti-racism for quite a long time, too. I.e. Sorbs in Germany:
https://www.bbc.com/travel/article/20210615-sorbs-the-ethnic-minority-inside-germany
Plenty of land of the Sorbs was taken in the last hundred years, and not seldom were places in which they lived those in which lignite was mined and thus the whole village destroyed:
https://www.mdr.de/geschichte/ddr/wirtschaft/sorben-lausitz-braunkohle-tagebau-100.html
I am reminded of the flair on the old sub "polishpeoplearepocpolishpeoplearepocpolishpeoplearepocpolishpeoplearepoc"