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I woke up today forgetting that it's pride month, and it feels sad because I know the reason why: I've distanced myself from LGBTQ+ spaces so much that it just didn't occur to me like it has for the past few years. Why? Because most of the LGBTQ+ spaces I've interacted with are overwhelmingly white, and the experiences with that, as you would expect, are
I don't know how to explain it better than, LGBTQ+ spaces feels like the Target Queer section. Almost like a hate crime with nothing behind it beyond visibility and rainbows
The whiteness of these spaces is part of why it took me so long to figure it out. I felt out of place and figured I mist be cishet rather than because the whiteness was repellant
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Why do racist White Americans adopt nonwhite kids as much as they do? I see this a lot from Guatemalan adoptees. They’re always very visibly mestizo or indigenous kids with Anglo names like Jason Smith who were raised by a racist straight or lesbian couple.
They come down here and talk about how thankful they were to be away from this hellhole (their own words) and will brag about their white spouses who tend to be just as racist as their parents. Their politics range from being far-right to neoliberal with the only leftists I’ve met being those with an estranged relationship with their parents.
the same reason enslavers wanted non-white bodies. as livestock or as pets.
they would probably treat their own bio children as pets too but squeezing out tiny humans doesn't stroke their ego like the social adulation of adopting or fostering.
guessing the same reason they fetishise poc, some do because they think it makes them progressive, some do it for humiliation.
i know the racist libs do it to show how progressive they are to other white libs
Those SA refugees about to be in for a shock when they find out they won't be able to afford the private schools they always send their kids to and your foreign degrees will be under scrutiny like a mf when job hunting. 
Something tells me they’ll be alright in this country
They may be fine by our or normal standards but back home they lived like kings basically. Domestic workers at their beck and call. Its gonna be a major downgrade. And they're spoiled af. The only dialogue I remember with em is some or other type of complaint.
Doomer [About the State of Hexbear When It Comes to POC]
I've been thinking on whether or not I should start limiting myself to c/em_poc and c/mutual_aid again, and I've been increasingly feeling like it's only right that I do so.
Interacting with white leftist ignorance is just too much of a chore and a toll on my mental health that I currently do not need right now. Hexbear isn't immune to it. In fact, I feel like too many crackers on this site are blinded by the "I'm one of the good ones" mentality to a point that they'd never take a step back in their life to sit and wonder if there's any way they can stop being so fucking upsetting to their EMPOC comrades.
Like I said in this comment,, white Hexbears are not some heightened level of better or less performative than your typical white leftist you'll find anywhere else.
I've been being more and more diligent with the job search and even went about ways of thinking outside the box to see if I can have a more solid chance at landing a gig. Once I actually get a job in the capacity to care for myself, the pattern will stay the same: I will only use this site for c/em_poc and c/mutual_aid, but in this case, I hope I can start using the latter more as a donor than a recipient. Unfortunately, the trans clinic job did not accept me.
It's really sad for me to sit here and reflect on the fact that, though I'm a newish user, I've heard of many past incidences of EMPOC Hexbears leaving this site because of this shit. It's really depressing, but it's not shocking, and it's not like it's any bit reasonable for me to expect this site to ever get any better about it. 
I am 100% convinced that for the majority of the Hexbear user base, that if they started living in a Global South country they’d turn to a NATO-supporting liberal so fast. Simple class interests.
Suddenly all this posturing of being part of a “radical” political minority falls flat.
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My cousin decided to marry a redneck and now she doesn't want to spend time at any of the family reunions because they're racist. Its not even like her husband isn't, he's pretty openly racist, but IDK. I would say I feel bad for her, but it seems like that's her type anyway so
My half-sister married a crypto fascist and I'm banned from her house, so that's neat.
She always trying to invite my mom and me over to where they live. I could never. No one is going to be racist to my face and think I'm not going to say shit.
Saying shit is why I'm banned lmao
Every nonwhite family has at least one of these In their family
I casually said the line, "Heterosexuals are the white people of sexualities," while talking to someone, and I don't know why it goes so hard.
White people ran out of ideas with South Africa, with other colonies they're like "oh the technology, the education" there they're like "the white farmers" what do you mean white farmers? was they lack of melanin making the plants grow faster?
leftist game club
by leftist, they mean vote blue, Trump is icky, and they have anti-fascist flags
I know it's reactionary to not want to agitate and organize, but I really don't feel like getting these crackers in shape. Some of them are volunteering to do free labor for a "small business owner," who may be the only one who's actually read any theory. And by theory, I mean The Communist Manifesto and Animal Farm.
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Never liked that amy schumer character but her weaponising Jewish allyship with poc to gain support for this genocide will always piss me off
I grew up around a lot of Jewish kids and many of them would do this. At first I thought "wow, I didn't know Jewish people were that much into civil rights" but now when I take their allyship, and the comments I also heard like "They were hiding in hospitals so it had to be bombed", then I know they're just trying to take credit for civil wins to spend on downplaying war crimes.
Its fucked because there are plenty who ars genuine about thr allyship but ones like schumer marguiles hammer the poc and lgbt saying oh they wouldn't accept you in Palestine unlike in Israel. That good old western spin.
Always with the White Man's Burden shit. "They are uncivilized therefore indiscriminate bombing is good, actually." They just switched from Christianity, art, music, and literature to civil rights.
This is like a daily discussion here.
There is also those who point out the gdp differences between Palestine and Israel. I fucking wonder why that is
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do they think that the patients in the hospitals wouldn't hear a missile being fired right above them?
Even when I didn't understand what isntreal was doing back then, I knew blowing up hospitals because "terrorist are hiding in them" sounded insane. I assumed they were empty/evacuated because no reasonable person would thinking blowing up an occupied hospital because "terrorists" are hiding in them is a good solution.
Remember that time Obama drone striked a hospital Doctors Without Borders was working out of? I don't even remember who they were planning on taking out. Like he did it just because he could.
Saw a dude with a keffiyeh print durag today
Had a bit of a scare, my mom feel earlier and she was in tears scared for a bit. Calmed her down and checked her leg, rn she's resting and seems. Think she popped her knee out and back in place and is more focused on the bump on her shin. Doing RICE and put a novella on for her to keep her occupied and she's chilling.
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I actually did advocacy for the city council hearing that Adam Friedland was trolling during the cold open of his new Ro Khanna episode.
If anyone is in NYC and interested, the NYPD runs an entirely secretive gang database which basically only registers Black and Latino young men. No italian mobsters, no Chinese street gangs. There have been kids as young as 12 added onto there and some people found themselves on there because they posted a selfie with a gang member or live in a public housing complex where gang activity occurs.
A specific case was when a graduate student in Connecticut got arrested for a RICO bust over Bronx gang activity because he featured people in his neighborhood in his amateur hip-hop videos. The federal prosecutor threatened him with the death penalty so he pled guilty to a weed trafficking charge and ended up getting kicked out of college right before graduation and lost his scholarship/financial aid. He’s delivery DoorDash right now.
I found myself indirectly involved with anti-migrant sentiment in Guatemala. Basically one of my old cars got stolen by a guy and used to kill an old man. The entire town spread a rumor that it was a migrant from El Salvador making his way to America and a lynch mob was formed. Then it was revealed that the guy who did it was a local repeat offender who last got arrested for beating up his girlfriend.
Police and a military official showed up at my place and interrogated me for four hours, one in person and the other through phone. It was mind-numbing to go through the same line of questioning over and over.
I wasn’t even aware the issue had gained much traction outside of my town until I saw it mentioned in a Facebook post about how violent the migrants are with lots of likes. This was in a group that covers the entire department (state, province, etc.) that I live in.
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New black panther in the comics is white and the vast majority of poc don't give a shit because we have real world problems. What a shock. 
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Wonder if anyone else has a familiar nickname that's way off from their legal name. I quite like mine and have been having my close friends use it. It's probably the closest to a true name I got since internally I use it when talking to myselfs. It tends to be odd to my white friends but idk sometimes it hard to explain to them
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arroz y frijoles pretty much everyday for me, added in some carne de soya and I'm set. Also salsa to make it go down easier, my classmates seeing me eating this everyday and wonder how I do it but I'm just built different
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