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  • Angel [any]@hexbear.net
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    Seeing the whole “Black Americans vs. Africans vs. Afro-Caribbeans” infighting thing online and looking at it like:

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      I don’t understand this, either. It happens in other ethnic groups (mine included). Whitey does not care about who came from where, only that you have one drop of non-white blood. You will be treated the same with complete disregard.

      Just look at how non-Arabs were treated after 9/11. Whitey couldn’t keep his racism focused on one group. He used it as an excuse to target Sikhs, Persians, and more.

      • It’s because they see another image of themselves through a white producer, believe it and try to disassociate from it, their egos blind them from learning about each other, and so apply their understanding to the results of the other, “why are they shooting at each other? we don’t do that over here there must be something wrong with them” “why are they selling drugs? we don’t do that over here there must be something wrong with them” “why are they living in huts? we don’t do that over here there must be something wrong with them” they didn’t learn this from their experience, they didn’t learn it from talking to people from there, they didn’t learn it from a book, they learned it from the same screen.

        • It’s because they see another image of themselves through a white producer, believe it and try to disassociate from it, their egos blind them from learning about each other, and so apply their understanding to the results of the other,

          Western media and its consequences have been a brainrot on the human race.

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      The amount of shit I’ve seen is crazy and not just the FBA vs ADOS shit. The horners vs others. The xenophobic shit between African countries including mine online. The amount of white supremacist talking points to put the other down I see is like two eunuchs arguing over who has a bigger dicks. Utterly pointless.

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      I mean I agree that a burning Israel flag emoji would give fascists rhetorical ammunition (edit: very poor choice of words but I believe in posting your Ls) but agreeing with the antisemitism smear is a step too far. If Norm Finkelstein and other anti-Zionist Jewish people see fit to call Zionism a Jewish supremacist project then I’m not inclined to agree that it’s antisemitic to say so.

      Also deflecting criticism by yelling at people to go outside strikes me as disingenuous, un-self aware, and fragile. Maybe this site is mostly for shitposting but I don’t see what’s wrong with using it as a sounding board to figure out how you feel about real life issues, some of the time.

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          Yeah I don’t get why we should care about fascist ammunition ever. They make shit up over nothing, we shouldn’t have to self censor over what they could possibly take and run with. Then that means we’re preemptively neutering ourselves before anything happens.

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            Agree, something, something the Jean Paul Satre quote about not taking the antisemite seriously we also are one of the few sites that documents the genocide in its entirety, any lawman coming through wanting to bump us off would have done so already and done real harm to people being informed about the genocide.

            Apparently we’ve also already been reported to federal agencies and the site isn’t gone yet, so I don’t see why a religious symbol burning would change anything when we regularly distribute images of the zionist flag burning.

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              Saving most of my thoughts for the inevitable struggle session but shouldn’t we be smart enough to recognize when we’re burning the zionist flag vs. burning the star of David? If one’s in a thread about isntreals crimes and another is a random post unrelated to isntreal, I think we can tell which is antisemitic.

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                It’s just liberal zionists deflecting, I truly dont believe they think burning an ethnostate’s flag is on par with the antisemitic hate crime of burning the star of David to get at Jewish people

                They’re just butthurt and trying to find a “leftist” defense of their butthurt instead of doing self reflection

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          True enough and very good point, thank you for keeping it real. Definitely not trying to die on that hill, actually now that you mention it I feel like that was an ass take on my part. I’ve thought about it a little more and I think the most reasonable argument is that depending on how the laws go, having an emoji like that could end up getting the site shut down. But that’s very hypothetical and meanwhile, yeah they’re starving hundreds of thousand of children for crying out loud. Country full of psycho killers doesn’t deserve that kind of consideration.

          But actually I don’t remember this ever being made a policy in the first place. If I recall correctly, WhyEsEff said she personally wasn’t comfortable making the emoji but if someone else wanted to, they’re free to do so. Then everyone just left it at that. Anyway, I’m for it, and I might fire up GIMP myself.

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        Yeah there are like, 2 valid-ish reasons for us not to have the Israeli flag burning as an emoji. Neither were actually defended in that horrible thread. It’s especially white to browbeat the people who are asking for the emoji as all being antisemites when they were all active users of the site, many are Arab, and none said anything even slightly antisemitic. Also “Jewish exceptionalism” is too far now? Ffs.

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          Z poster getting a seemingly permanent site-wide ban (no more news megathread for you bucko!) for it was also uncalled for just for pointing out the holes in other users arguments.

          Mod message: https://hexbear.net/modlog?page=1&actionType=All&userId=21408

          History of sustained hostility and wrecker behavior. PLEASE TOUCH GRASS AND ORGANIZE

          White leftists going “please touch grass and organize!!!” as a escape hatch to any criticism they receive. The first part seems like grounds so I won’t comment on that.

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            It is ridiculous. I can kinda understand where the pearl clutching is coming from because in my own conversations with people in my country, which has a pretty low Jewish population, there’s been a lot of ignorance about the Holocaust and antisemitism more broadly, so I can understand why there’s an aversion to any narrative or term that can be weaponized by antisemites (those sorts of things fester among those who are ignorant about history) but it’s perhaps the most appropriate website in the web to have these conversations safely.

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    Repubs doing gerrymandering which is clearly racially motivated and many still treat this shit like a difference of opinion. The brainwashing is real.

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    Sometimes I’ll read posts in anglo-left spaces and realize I’m much more socially conservative compared to them. You could say I’m a product of my culture having lived in a small rural town for as long as I have. I make an effort to educate myself more with sites like this but occasionally I do come across some posts that make me reflexively roll my eyes.

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    american film industry is slowly transitioning to the “we made a film about how sad we were abt the genocide” phase and ive some seen people adjacent here already eat it up

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    I just saw an Instagram reel where a South Asian man, presumably one living in a Western country, spoke about the hardships of interracial dating, particularly being a POC dating a white person.

    In the comments, a white woman responded to this post with something along the lines of, “I don’t disagree, but, similarly, straight women experience all of these problems in the context of misogyny because men don’t experience sexism, so they can’t understand their struggles!”, and it seemed like she was tokenizing WOC because she also added, “And Black women dating white men experience this twofold!” or some shit like that.

    Here’s the thing: the contents of her comment were not necessarily wrong, but I don’t get good faith vibes from it. It seems like a typical derailment used by white women who cannot stand the thought of opposing oppression besides the ones they personally face. Her comment got over 200 likes or something around there, and there were 7 positive replies to it (usually just stuff like clapping emojis) before I had to be the 8th reply and the first to call it out. I got a fair amount of likes, but after I commented, I just muted notifications because I don’t wish to engage further. It’s not worth it.

    But what I ultimately see as the beneficial takeaway of all of this is the validation of these key beliefs of mine:

    1. My skepticism of most “leftists” is totally justified.
    2. My skepticism of white people is totally justified.
    3. My refusal to ever date out again is totally justified.

    Sometimes, especially in this gaslighting white supremacist world, I feel like I’m being “dramatic” with said skepticism, but I’m beginning to know with more and more confidence that I’m really not.

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      Update: After further backlash and criticism, she deleted her comment, lmao

      It was around 600 likes or something when she did. My comment got a bit over 100, I think.

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    Trying to recognize all the races from disco elysium is kind of a challenge but I’m getting it. Definitely stealing the phrase “ham sandwich race” measurehead that shit is so on point for lmayo

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    Interesting after the last UFC how much Western racism is targeted to khamzat because of his religion. I mean hes literally from near the caucaus mountains. i-cant Shows how bigotry makes no sense

  • Angel [any]@hexbear.net
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    2 months ago
    Sent the aforementioned Black vegan queen a pic where I show off my

    arms

    She really liked it, and I was shocked when she said “Hey hey 🥰” in response to it.

    Damn, is this rizz? I guess I can be hawt.

    She sent me a kiss too 😘