Rant time for me.

I think there are many valid reasons to be scared and worried about the future of the US but whenever I see white people or cis-het folk or any other not currently targeted identities (and kinda some leftist) say "things are going to get worse", I have a knee jerk side eye. Especially when seeing "theyre gonna put us in concentration camps" or "we're going to lose rights" messaging. It tells me that they don't see it's worse right now and that they have no plans to combat it besides roll over, take it, go to work, wait it out. You're telling me you're worried the gov is going to round you up into camps and all you can say it "oh no"? Where's the "over my dead body" attitude, where's the fight?

Maybe I have too much revolutionary optimism but the uptick in fear mongering has been urking me so much.

Reading the struggle session in the trans megathread just makes me glad ethnic enclaves are a thing. My experience with various diasporic communities is that there's a huge correlation between how mentally fucked up you are and how often you're surrounded by white people. If someone's formative experience is in an ethnic enclave, they're nowhere near as self-loathing as someone who's the only POC in an all-white HS for example. And Lord help you if you're a POC with adoptive white parents in a town that's 95% white. And if not self-hatred, they always have a chip on the shoulder where they overcompensate. It's like the more you're surrounded by white people, the more likely you either have deeply-entrenched self-hatred or you have a massive chip on your shoulder constantly trying to assert your POCness.

This ties to the concept of passing. Being white-passing conveys enormous benefits of course, but if you're in an ethnic enclave, there's less pressure to pass for the sake of not getting hate-crimed because if nothing else, there's safety in numbers. It's vastly different if you're stuck in a 95% white place because being that 5% makes you stand out and there's enormous penalties for standing out.

Being queer is basically like the POC in a 95% white town and my fear is that all the brainworms and general mental fuckupness of a POC being stuck in a 95% white town is present in almost all queer people, meaning far more queer people have well-entrenched self-hatred and are far more susceptible to the siren call of assimilation. A queer safe space is basically an attempt at trying to create the queer equivalent of an ethnic enclave except they lack numbers so the safe space doesn't extend beyond a building. But there's massive qualitative differences between a safe space that doesn't extend beyond a building vs a safe space that covers an entire city block vs a safe space that covers the entire city period. There's the cliche of a Black American being transformed after visiting Africa into a Pan-African New Afrikan and the cliche rings true because going from an environment that's only 35% Black to an entire continent where everyone looks like you is transformative. How could it not?

Sometimes, you just need a break from crackers, and a POC living in an ethnic enclave can spend the entire day outside socializing with other people while at the same time not interact with a single white person. Can a queer person do the same with the cishets?

I don't live in these provinces, but damn

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Been in my chocolate chip cookie era recently.

I've made like 3 or 4 batches recently and really want to make more

yall wont believe who im gonna meet soon! aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh. i have no idea what to wear.

It’s coconut time! (God liberals on the Internet are about to get so much more annoying)

Hayim to Stalin as always...

Been all over the place emotionally this past week, just fighting myself a lot.

my mom tried to get me to read jd vance's book and my dad is still a miles kwok cultist somehow

the fact that it's cool and good for them to push their political evangelism on you but anything short of total acquiescence on your end is considered rude or aggressive makes conversations physically uncomfortable idk why i bother

i feel like i should be reading more conservative theory to be able to shit on it better

A comrade in my org told me that any poc who goes on about white supremacy while having white partners ends up being a disappointing lib. I find that this is usually the case as well and the squad is a good example.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BExvUjzeXPw&t=35s

White libs at my work are so detached from reality

Writing marketing content (ew, I know) for two big tech companies made me hate corporations even more and contributed to my burnout

Strange time to be a Black woman when there's a Black woman being propped up as a presidential candidate. White liberals telling me to suck it up, Black liberals telling me she's secretly a really good person so suck it up, and I don't have a fight in me to refute either of them. I'll just say, who I'm voting for has not changed and leave it at that.