people are saying such shitty things about me. ill probably delete this, but can some of my comrades just give me a pep talk if your up to in. I know logically I love this place and this is a bad day, but I cant stop crying, i do so much work going out, doing mutual aid, supporting union drives, working with the dsa and psl ect and it doesn't fucking matter because as soon as I vent about the class of people who are giving me a hard time IM somehow stopping racial solidarity from happening. it hurts so bad and makes everything feel so pointless. i feel so disposable. im not gonna debate anyone i just want to chat with nice comrades who care. im actually crying hard over internet shit maybe its my sign to leave.

edit: THANK YOU for the out pouring of love comrade, here, in my dms, and on cytube. I LOVE YOU GUYS SO MUCH. I will be staying. I will be taking a break after this sundays fanon post (its the last one and BEST chapter hope i can see you there) but I shall return even more powerful than before. you guys are amazing thank you again to everyone committed to making this a safe space for BIPOC people to express themselves.

  • BeamBrain [he/him]
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    10 months ago

    Can you give some examples of white leftist dogwhistles?

    • BountifulEggnog [they/them]
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      10 months ago

      I'd also like to know, I want to be better. I don't think I've seen any racism, and I'm a bit worried I might just be blind to it if several comrades are saying it's an issue.

    • Sandinband [any, comrade/them]
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      10 months ago

      Foaming at the mouth when poc mention cultural appropriation or any other form of racism that they, as a white person, don't think "counts" or doesn't matter. Also refusing to listen to poc about why things are racist even if they, a white person, dont think it is

      Using mock ebonics to be "funny"

      Acting as if poc are inherently more bigoted or more reactionary.

      The constant bad faith interpretations of poc pointing out the double standards for whites vs poc

      Responding to poc discussing how being marginalized doesn't prevent white people from being racist by claiming theyre "putting 'white' in front of blatantly (insert bigotry here) statements to avoid criticism" when the statement is referring to specific behaviors belonging to white marginalized people. ex: white women tears in response to being called out for racism or poc not tolerating their microagressions, white trans people claiming that trans poc are actually being transphobic because they won't let racist "jokes" slide just because theyre from a trans person, white disabled people refusing to acknowledge that disabled poc face more hurdles due to systemic racism in Healthcare and the history of segregation like in deaf schools (which led to Black people having to create their own forms of sign language), etc etc

      Bringing up Candace Owens when poc say to listen to them about issues that effect their communities

      Centering discussions of USAmerican vets around the white man's ptsd from committing murder and raping poc overseas