"To be honest, I don’t know if other poc share this view, but I find the continuous stream of self-deprecating jokes about white people and calls for violence on white people tedious and somewhat uncomfortable. Maybe that’s some internalised bs I have to deal with, but it has a flavour of edginess to it, and feels like a lot of white people here like to post it because it shows just how cool and self hating they are, saying things that would be considered abhorrent by mainstream society. But as a woc who has been tone policed her whole life, it doesn’t feel liberating to constantly read 'unlimited genocide on kkkrackers', because to me it turns the idea of resistance against white norms and cultural supremacy into a joke, an in-group affect, and in doing so releases the user from any obligation to actually dismantle that cultural supremacy. In other words, it’s virtue-signalling. […] I came here because I wanted to learn more about leftism, talk with other lefties in a not-totally-Americentric forum and maybe find out about organisations and efforts to contribute to. And to hexbear’s credit, I have managed to do a lot of those things. But lately […] it’s felt like a club of people who share a performative leftist/west-hating affect. That’s not to say a group can’t have in-jokes of course, but when those replace the initial purpose and usefulness of the space then it just becomes a parody of itself."

— built_on_hope's comments in the Hexbear open-floor meta post for EM/POC users, August 2025