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Official Title of this Community: Ethnic Minorities and People of Color

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Adelaide Casely-Hayford, born on this day in 1868, was a Sierra Leone Creole Pan-African feminist, educator, and author. Hayford established a vocational school for young girls in Sierra Leone that emphasized racial and cultural pride.

https://www.blackpast.org/global-african-history/hayford-adelaide-smith-casely-1868-1960/

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Remember no crackers

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[–] VILenin@hexbear.net 22 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (4 children)

White "antizionists" will look at a video of rabid zionists screaming SA and death threats at muslim children and their first concern is how it might "stoke antisemitism". No matter how many people are murdered by the entity, they never lose sight of the real victims: white Jews in the USA being subjected to mean words from genocide victims.

I firmly believe that if any of these people were around in 1955 they would have called Strom Thurmond an anti-white racist because he provoked backlash against whites. They can all cosplay as Malcolm X supporters now since he's dead but if he was still around they would be tut-tutting him for "playing into the hands of white supremacy by spouting anti-white racism" or whatever.

If you are a POC, the feelings and reputation of a single cracker will always be worth more than a thousand lives of your people put together.

[–] Belly_Beanis@hexbear.net 15 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

It's hard to take claims of antisemitism seriously when neo-nazis were allowed to kill Heather Hayer or how the Columbine shooters were nazis. And these white "antizionists" are the same people who go on about wanting "...nuance and civility, violence has no place in our society." The correct course of action would be to at least imprison every person who perpetuated these events. Outright killing them is entirely justified.

But when anti-fascists get in fights or shoot back at fascists, these "antizionists" crying over "antisemitism" will ridicule them for vigilante justice. They won't bother petitioning the state to crack down on neo-nazis, either. Their solution seems to be just wagging their fingers and hoping strong rhetoric will convince reactionaries to change their minds. Any actions taken to suppress actual, existing antisemitism is disavowed.

Then when Palestine comes up, it's as you say where they're worried more about the feelings of the same people who won't do anything to stop the supposed bigotry they face. Why aren't there armed groups of Jewish militias wiping out KKK chapters? Why is TPUSA allowed to recruit nazis into its organization? These people actually do hurt Jewish people, yet we're supposed to believe Muslims are the larger threat? We can't have a pro-Palestinian student group on campus, but we sure as shit can have College Republicans using slurs and talking about "the JQ" in their group chats.

Like who do these "antizionists" crying over bad optics think is getting fooled? People who support Palestine aren't nazis. Holocaust deniers already lie and say whatever. Liberals engage in bad-faith accusations of antisemitism, regardless of any proof to the contrary. So what groups are left where this is an issue?

I can only conclude their support for Palestine is conditional or they're just too chickenshit to admit they're zionists who want to go back to October 6th. Either way, they should fuck off or get with the program.

[–] VILenin@hexbear.net 14 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (1 children)

Not to mention, white leftists have no qualms freely criticizing China over their activities in Africa despite the millions of Chinese civilians murdered by the genocidal IJA during WWII. Funny how they don't feel the need to beat around the bush and delicately dance on eggshells when it comes to trashing China. No one feels the need to have a discussion about the Nanjing Massacre every time sinophobic reactionaries set up shop on a college campus to harass Chinese students.

I can only conclude that they either think genocides only matter if the victims are white, or that they're just outright genocide deniers altogether. Or, of course, that they're just arguing in bad faith to somehow blame Muslims for the European-committed Holocaust, which they obviously are. Love to see whites freaking out about China not placing a heavier emphasis on Holocaust education (resulting in antizionism having zero stigma in China) as if the history of the entire world is 1940s Europe. If you google you can even find articles from perplexed "China experts" going "why can't they just get over it?" on the anniversary of the Nanjing Massacre.

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[–] Angel@hexbear.net 13 points 3 weeks ago (4 children)

A friend of mine sent me this TikTok today, and I read the comments. Most of them were good (surprisingly), but I found this one:

i do not disagree with you but i would say the difference is that men and white people are not oppressed and do not face struggles that root from their skin or gender while jewish people are oppressed and do face struggles due to their ethnicity/religion. (again, not disagreeing with you! i completely understand why someone would feel this way)

Ay, ay, ay...

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[–] 3rdWorldCommieCat@hexbear.net 20 points 3 weeks ago (5 children)

White hexbear users at it again. Post about how two jewish guests in some uk place idc turned on the tv and were "horrified" (actual words) to see "free palestine" on a tv screen.

"here's how this is actually bad for white jews in europe/north america" they also used the sentence "this is gonna cause a turbo genocide against jews cause the west already blames them for everything" yeah idk I wonder who's commiting the "turbo genocide" agaisnt who rn. Can't say I care about genocide supporters getting their consequences just cause they were oppressed decades ago. God forbid we acknowledge the current situation. Somehow no other group who's also been genocided is free from criticism tho.

[–] VILenin@hexbear.net 19 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (2 children)

Here we go again

Edit: lol they got banned for “hostility”, once again confirming my thesis that every white hexbear user sits on a spectrum ranging from Strom Thurmond to Adolf Hitler

[–] 3rdWorldCommieCat@hexbear.net 13 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (1 children)

Does it say who the mod was that removed your (factually correct) comment?

Lmao ofc whites get offended over civility and not genocide apologetics.

EDIT:Nvm I somehow missed the mod name the first time.

[–] VILenin@hexbear.net 12 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Keld made the comment, to my knowledge you have to be a mod on a comm to see the specific names of the mods who made the action

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[–] la_tasalana_intissari_mata@hexbear.net 14 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)
[–] VILenin@hexbear.net 12 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

Also LMAO at the idea of whites avenging the murder of muslims by killing other whites

The average white hexbear user is completely indistinguishable from Columbus’ contemporaries who abhorred his cruelty not because they thought it was wrong to murder indigenous people, but because it would inevitably result in colonizers getting owned.

[–] Rojo27@hexbear.net 12 points 3 weeks ago

There's so few details about what happened and we know that Western media loves reporting on this "antisemitism" situations by sharing only select details, so how is it that people still fall for this shit? They could have been talking about how much they love Israel or hell, even just altered the message themselves to make themselves look like victims. But sure, lets just go ahead and take this vague reporting at face valuepicard

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[–] RedNajm@hexbear.net 19 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

day 1 of mass preserving arab socialism history

I have archived about 16GB+ of works tenna-cane

[–] VILenin@hexbear.net 18 points 2 weeks ago

If Malcolm X were alive today Hexbear would condemn him as a fool doing white supremacy’s bidding by spreading anti-white hatred

Inside every white hexbear user there is a frightened cracker living in constant terror at the thought of the uppity browns revenge-killing them

[–] RedNajm@hexbear.net 18 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (3 children)

:wowee: ex-mod of this community who released bangers such as "transitioning deradicalized me" and "why does the left bat for immigrants" said she's now a liberal?!?? Who could have thought of this! Yes now my treats are flowing again, fuck all victims of imperialism and poor Americans and minorities, I have mine.

I'm glad she just went mask off lol, gfy

[–] CommunistCuddlefish@hexbear.net 14 points 2 weeks ago

I saw that, has she been site-banned yet? Because she really should

[–] Belly_Beanis@hexbear.net 14 points 2 weeks ago

I did not realize that person was a mod. Holy shit. I thought she was trolling with all her posts. Hexbear isn't the place to do it because it inevitably impacts other leftists, but whatever some people don't want to spend time in reactionary places. But a mod? Yeah no you shouldn't be making bait posts like that.

Seriously, this site needs a purge of its moderation staff. Of course, then it means filling those positions and anyone who would be good at moderating doesn't want to.

[–] la_tasalana_intissari_mata@hexbear.net 12 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

She was banned then unbanned for some reason. Her post from months ago should've been enough.

[–] RedNajm@hexbear.net 12 points 2 weeks ago

Lmao ofc. Also, i just checked her modlog and holy shit how was she ever allowed for more than a month? Literally 2 years of being a complete reactionary

[–] Rindogang@hexbear.net 17 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

Happy Pride Month everyone! Can I just vent for a second and get something off my chest?

​I’ve been struggling with this lately but honestly some of my recent encounters with people in the LGBTQ+ community have left a really bad taste in my mouth

Over the last few years I've seen so much blatant racism from some gay folks... like last Christmas Eve when I was visiting the US another Latin American literally told me to "go back to Mexico!"

​I’ve also seen strangers online who are gay or trans just casually dropping the n word over and over it’s wild to me... like in what world do you think being part of one marginalized group gives you a free pass to be racist to others?

​How am I supposed to build solidarity with someone who is just a rude racist asshole? You can't build solidarity when the other person doesn't even want it has zero class consciousness and is perfectly fine stepping on others

[–] 3rdWorldCommieCat@hexbear.net 14 points 2 weeks ago

One thing to remember is that most issues and racism from the lgbt community comes from the white part of it. Building solidarity with poc lgbt folks is much easier as they suffer not only from queerphobia but also racism from their white counterparts and are much different. White people will be white no matter what other marginalized identity they may have. That's not to say that there's no shit from poc lgbt people but that goes for every group. And it all goes that if anybody is seen as a valid target for anything then nobody is safe. If they refuse to grow (speaking of individuals) then drop that specific person.

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[–] Angel@hexbear.net 16 points 2 weeks ago (9 children)

The disturbing amount of defense that Graham Cracker gets from so-called "leftists"

yikes-1yikes-2yikes-3

[–] VILenin@hexbear.net 13 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (4 children)

Let’s see what the resident Platner defenders on HB have to say!

he would be the most leftwing person in the Senate by a wide margin. That's just how cooked American politics is, the war criminal with a Nazi tat by far outflanks the rest of the Senate ( yes including Bernie, Platner is significantly better than Bernie on Palestine)

I'm personally just at the point to where I'm checked out on US electoralism but for me it's been shocking seeing a significant amount of this site and online Western leftists openly and knowingly push Zionist propaganda about him

Too bad Graham KKKrakkker’s victims didn’t have the option of checking out while he was murdering them

Translation: I have no principles, don’t see non-Americans as human, and would vote for Adolf Hitler if he promised to give me healthcare.

[–] Belly_Beanis@hexbear.net 13 points 2 weeks ago

--Adolf Hitler, Mein Kampf

Chapter VII: The Conflict with the Red Forces

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[–] homhom9000@hexbear.net 16 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

Just had lunch with my multi ethnic coworkers. One is Iranian who said the Iran government is corrupt and killing kids and it's wrong to close the strait. Another has a brother being deployed to Iran in the airforce.

Other coworkers said hope he stays safe, I kept quiet because I don't.

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[–] Rojo27@hexbear.net 15 points 3 weeks ago

Jacobin and other white "leftists"

Graham Platner

us-foreign-policy

Chris Smalls

[–] Angel@hexbear.net 15 points 1 week ago (1 children)
[–] Rojo27@hexbear.net 15 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (6 children)

Appropriation of black culture and its consquences.

Also this AI blackface shit is so cringe.

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[–] homhom9000@hexbear.net 15 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Don't be opening your store up in a Black neighborhood if you hate Black people. I don't give a damn if it's the only place the bank approved of, if you don't fuck with Black people then you don't get a store.

[–] Ath3ro@hexbear.net 15 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

and then the business will cater to black people (beauty shops) and will assume everyone that’s walks in there is stealing, make it make sense

[–] homhom9000@hexbear.net 12 points 3 weeks ago

Like damn if it's so scary to sell to us then don't

[–] 3rdWorldCommieCat@hexbear.net 15 points 3 weeks ago (5 children)

Now that the nypd is gonna hire an extra 580 cops under Zioran Copdani's latest budget are we allowed to finally call him out or are the crackers in this site still riding the wave lmao

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[–] RedNajm@hexbear.net 14 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (1 children)

For a long time i've been thinking of collecting an archive of all marxist/socialist works i can find online in arabic/by arabs/ about the arab world. I've had a complete archive of Kim il Sung's full works in arabic downloaded for a long time (not really intentionally, but happy accidents) and it planted the thought in me.

It was from a fucking defunct wordpress website btw lmao, that just shows how fragile and easily lost it could've been. AFAICT the Arab communist web is fully dead (well... It's kind of dead in general, but even moreso on the digital realm lol), might as well preserve all i can find for the future, if it ever revives hopefully. deeper-sadness

I think i will host it on disroot.org. It won't be curated or anything, just a mass-archive of all i can find (and as organized as i can make it i guess) and i want to stick to EPUB/PDF (are these the best formats for preservation? shrug-outta-hecks)

[–] la_tasalana_intissari_mata@hexbear.net 13 points 2 weeks ago (4 children)

socialism has became like a bad word when you mention it around arabs.

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[–] la_tasalana_intissari_mata@hexbear.net 14 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

I'm tired. Too many psyops, too many bots, too many gusanos.

[–] la_tasalana_intissari_mata@hexbear.net 13 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

FALLING FOR PSYOP AFTER PSYOP WHY THE FUCK IS THE CURRENT PSY OP HUNTER BIDEN GET A FUCKING GRIP, YOU USED TO HAVE STANDARDS NOT EVEN A YEAR AGO, GETTING TRICKED BY A PRETTY "SOCIALIST" WITH A CUTE SMILE AND NOW YOU'RE GETTING PSYOPPED BY A NAZI ABUSER AND LITERALLY HUNTER FUCKING BIDEN GET A FUCKING GRIP ON REALITY.

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[–] Angel@hexbear.net 14 points 3 weeks ago

cw: transphobiaI have this friend, whom I'll call K, a person I was really close with for a minute.

For the longest time, K viewed me as a cis woman.

However, I felt like I wanted to be a little more true to myself in my interactions with her, so I revealed to her that such is really not the case and I am an androgyne.

She seemed receptive and everything, and she said something like, "I take no issue with it! You're the same person before you even told me."

Well, another friend of mine, a trans woman herself, found a social media comment of K saying "Disgusting and sad" on a video of a trans woman happy about bottom surgery (and, of course, with some crying emojis 😢😢😢 to make her transphobia look benevolent and rooted in concern for the trans woman's well-being).

Gee, I wonder who else I'm wrongly granting trust.

BTW, before you ask, yes, K is ⚪⚪⚪⚪⚪

[–] homhom9000@hexbear.net 14 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

I hate white people. Happy Pride!

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[–] Angel@hexbear.net 13 points 3 weeks ago

Had a job interviewer glaze me today... Said she liked my vibe, found me incredibly intelligent and kind, and thought I was so unique. Many Black women working here, too.

That was quite a W, I guess. I sent a follow-up text thanking her for the interview, and she was really happy I did.

Unfortunately, she isn't the only one playing a role in the final decision, so maybe I won't get it, but boosted my confidence a bit either way.

[–] Angel@hexbear.net 13 points 3 weeks ago

Yellow rice, peas, carrots, imitation bacon (TVP) bits, and mushrooms with sriracha on top.

you see the word demographic in a paragraph by a white person and you don't need to read the rest to know what it is about

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