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.
That's a lot of dismissive things to say despite not addressing my one-sentence response, lol.
This is exactly the kind of thing that can be exhausting for BIPOC folks, by the way. The urge to have and share opinions rather than listen even a little bit.
So why not be extra considerate, and have something that speaks directly to the variation and degrees of oppression that exist in the historical experiences of people racialized into a periphery? Descendents of Slaves and Victims of Genocides and other People of Color. DOSAVOGAPOC. Or if you're going for semantic rigor, POCIDOSAVOG. Is that not even better in recognizing the shape of our world and the injustice therein?
People Racialized Into A Periphery could be turned into a concise and catchy acronym. People might call it some kind of -ism though.
Because BIPOC is pronounceable and because language is descriptive, not prescriptive. This won out over POC, not some other term, and it's not like it was invented and adopted by some committee.
e: like, even in your head.
youre being the annoying white person