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.

  • BarnieusCalgar [he/him]
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    1 year ago

    As I mentioned in that thread, there's no real way of Hexbear not beating the mayo city allegations unless there's a radical cultural shift. By radical, I mean a radical shift where people self-dox their faces, the admins and mods are all POC with their nonwhite faces as avatars, and the people who are white get a one-strike policy. This might seem radical, but that's essentially how Hexbear became so trans friendly. Half the mods are trans, and one of the trans mods went to town on terfs and other transphobic reactionaries early in this website's history.

    WTF incident inspired this thread?

    • Othello
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      29 days ago

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