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.
its like how glbt changed to lgbt to honor and uplift lesbains, particularly the ones who took care of gay men with hiv in the aids crisis.
I thought that was to inspire legitimacy and avoid looking like Golbat.
These are 4 separate but clearly related categories that work as parts of a group that is named by listing them, and they would work just as well in any order. It would sound weird if it were something like "Lesbians, Transgendered, and Sexual Minorities" where part of the list encompasses the whole.
I recognize how silly it is that I'm pursuing this angle of discussion though.