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    1 month ago

    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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              17 days ago

              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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          17 days ago

          Also “Jewish exceptionalism” is too far now?

          Yeah that’s just baffling. Its literally a jewish ethnostate and keeps an apartheid intact. Has always been Jewish exceptionalist since its inception.

          Like damn, norm finkelstein even wrote a book about and got demonized for it.

          I guess its too much to ask in a forum with communists !?

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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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      Yeah I saw it. I feel like there are certain blindspots with some of the crackers in there. I had long ago bought up a similar thing about brahmins, casteism and brahmins in usa. How such well off castes do carry Hindu fascism. I was referring to kamala Harris and her extended family wealth. Wanted to even broadly mention how such people embed into imperial core and sponsor its genocidal regime. I got a lot of push back saying this was somehow wrongful and racist to point out, mainly by similar crackers and certain cracker in that thread.

      On top of calling me racist for even pointing out how casteism and fascism aid one another. They got weird about me suggesting I live in south India and have decently well read on brahminism and casteism. They went on to say something weirdly racist (which I don’t even wanna reiterate). Which is pretty bizarre cause Harris clearly supports rich brahmins and their base, so much so she helped block an anti caste discrimination bill when these brahmins reached out to her.

      I got very uncomfortable and stopped really commenting about casteism or india altogether for a while. Cause certain crackers in that thread don’t know shit about Indian politics and wanna be dismissive. I also didn’t wanna be subject to their dogpiling.

      Why I say all this is cause Hindu fascists do the same tactics as zionists. They keep labelling their critics as bigots who hate Hindus (they just mean brahmins). Have ambitions to build an Hindu ethnostate with their casteist apartheid intact. They are Hindu exceptionalist. Now to say burning rss/vhp/whatever fascist insignia as a hinduphobic thing is very dumb thing.

      To sort of even bend knees for the fascists who have been the most open depraved genociders for the last 20 months (I mean tbh since 1950s) is just putrid.

      Sorry I typed I all this. Felt like I had to say it. Felt nauseated reading all that thread.

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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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    Me when a wh*te leftist tells me, “I hate my own race so much that I don’t even date 'em!”

    cringe Is that supposed to be you expressing that you’re an “ally” to me?

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    Think I’m going to post only here, badposting, traaaa and c/news

    Zposter should be unbanned , don’t know why mods are so reluctant to add the :isn’treal-cool: emote.

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      17 days ago

      Because this website is run by and favored towards cracker zionazis who LARP as communists but are libs at best who infantilize and probably never even been friends with a person of color

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        wellp, our star mod weighed in on the referendum thread and predictably his ultimate word was a variant of “fuck off, fuck you, fuck fuck fuck,” denying any wrongdoing, pouting, and then leaving. Personally I don’t think anyone who tells a regular user to kill themself should be a mod on this site, regardless of how annoying they might find them.

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          That person is just the standard embodiment of white people: given power they absolutely didn’t deserve and definitely don’t have the proper intellect to handle yet ego so inflated that they think minorities are just dumb and uneducated and even tho literally everyone telling them they should self crit they deny it in favor of their own delusions

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            yup, it’s that self-assuredness, lack of self-awareness, and the obvious lack of emotional control, plus the two-faced progression:

            In this thread https://hexbear.net/post/5878074/6419306

            Why should I engage in any faith good or bad when they accused me of “white pearl clutching” when I told them that Zionism isn’t about Jewish supremacy it is about white supremacy

            and:

            This is literally anti-Semitic. It isn’t “Jewish exceptionalism” it’s just white supremacy. … You are stepping into actually anti-semitic territory with this and proving why we don’t have that emoji.

            They repeatedly used the phrase “Jewish exceptionalism” and accused me of “white pearl clutching” when I pointed out that it was actually white supremacy that drives Zionism

            (Notice the subtle equivocation) Then in the referendum thread https://hexbear.net/comment/6423603:

            I DO NOT CARE ABOUT THE EMOJI.

            Well which one is it? If he’d actually listened to the arguments in the first thread instead of having a meltdown then he would have skipped the steps where he accidentally parrotted Zionist talking points only to walk it all back later.,


            Aside, he owes Aradino a real apology, not this:

            And I applaud that as someone that has also contributed what little of my time I can spare to various causes against colonialism including practically all my meager inheritance

            —after making this egregious comment and then getting a reality check from Aradino: https://hexbear.net/comment/6420296

            He should not be banned imo, but definitely demodded and made to self-crit, I think it would be good for him

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              This is the type of person no self respecting leftist would take serious in real life. Incredibly childish and a head big with no right to be. I would place 0 trust in anything this individual says or does. I agree a ban isn’t necessary but the power most definitely needs to be stripped away and there should be constant pressure for self crit should they choose to still try and engage with this community. Though probably none of that will happen

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                Though probably none of that will happen

                Yeah I guess that’s why I’m still posting about it long after my first comment at breakfast time, lmao. I don’t expect anything to really change except for we get the emoji and some more people get banned for not enjoying the site properly.

                Which, I gotta say, banning people for breaking the “enjoyment of the site” rules is BS. It’s so patronizing, who are they to determine who’s enjoying themselves the right way or not? Personally I enjoy fighting crackerdom, and it just so happens that the crackerdom is coming from inside the house. My blood pressure has been even keel all day, except for a very brief spike of anxiety whenever I see this guy post. Demod Nakoichi

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                  There are clearly other mods/admins who are interested in protecting Nakoichi and probably share similar patronizing sentiments, it’s a bigger sitewide problem. Yes the call is coming from inside the house

                  The time I do spend on this website I’ll continue to call it out as well, I have no interest in carrying on posting memes pretending like we’re not being redirected through a veiled bureaucracy whenever there’s a legitimate complaint that is extremely one sided by the userbase

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    27 days 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 😘