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.

  • Mindfury [he/him]
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    1 year ago

    if you're white and you wanna be less weird about race you should do two main things. make black friends who will call you out, and read black writers.

    Yeah, I think us honkies need our TC69 "READ FEINBERG OR FUCKING DIE" moment for key POC cultural and theory texts. Sometimes we need bullying too.

    • Othello
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      10 days ago

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        • D61 [any]
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          1 year ago

          The user running had to step down and the few users who had been trying to engage with it found their life situation changed so couldn't keep up with the reading (I had to get a second job and my brain turns off when trying to listen to non-fiction audio books sadness-abysmal ).

          I did try to keep up with the book club threads when I couldn't do the reading though. If another book club along this topic started I'd at the very least make it a point to read through the comments.