Juneteenth is a U.S. holiday commemorating black emanicipation and power that originates from Galveston, Texas, where, on this day in 1865, Union General Gordon Granger proclaimed all slaves in Texas, more than 250,000 people, to be free.
Juneteenth is the oldest nationally celebrated commemoration of slave abolition in the United States.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Juneteenth
I hope you nerds have a good month of June 
Remember no crackers
I’m so pissed knowing that I literally was so close to having a job but got rejected over something as ridiculous as my computer being overwhelmed while playing four 1080p videos at once in a video call with 10 other people. I suspect that’s really not something to get in the way of a customer service agent job, but what the fuck do I know?
Today, I literally applied to over 50 jobs… many of them remote.
I deliberately set out to do this, but I typically do not count how many applications I do. In the past, I’ve applied to around 25 jobs without trying on some days. Doing these 50 job applications took me the whole day because, when I apply to jobs, I use a lot of discernment. I took time to read each job posting thoroughly, ensure that the job will genuinely be a good fit, ensure that I meet its eligiblity requirements, and also verify postings to make sure they’re not scams. Despite it being a Saturday, one job already called me for an interview, so at least there’s that.
In y’alls experience who are the most reactionary diasporas?
To me its Between Cubans and Venezuelans
waiter! waiter! 200,000
awards please!oh nevermind they’re still defending him
[CW: The Graham Cracker Stuff/SA]
So people are still defending him. It was bad enough that people let all this other awful shit about the man slide, but even after this, these White-centric, Western-centric asshats still make excuses for him.
I am officially too grossed out to function for the rest of the day. What the fuck? I am so mad, and I can’t believe this.
I had to endure the pain of going through such a traumatic experience, and I will never receive justice for that. I live every single fucking day just trying to forget that ever happened to me, so when I am online and I see people MAKE FUCKING EXCUSES FOR A HORRIBLE MAN BEING (PLAUSIBLY) ACCUSED OF THE SAME SHIT, I can’t help but just lose my shit. I have no ability to function. I hardly have the ability to type anything coherent here. I’m just done. Today is over for me. I will not be okay for the rest of the day. I need to collect my thoughts and get to a more stable point. I don’t know how long this pain is gonna last for me. I hate everything about the West. I hate everything about whiteness, including these pathetic white Marxists. I want the US and all demonic territories aligned with it to perish.
I cannot do much today. I’m already so fucking pissed offabout this job hunt making me feel extremely hopeless, and now I feel 100x worse.
Democrat Desantis
What is wicked about all of this is how this is such a non-issue, JUST GET RID OF THE GUY, PUT ANOTHER PERSON IN HIS PLACE IT IS NOT HARD, your hands are tied to your back why is your only option??? pick a random person from the street they’ll be a better candidate than this fuckass war criminal sex offender crakkker, he’s not even being elected as something important you’d think with the way he’s hyped he’ll lead an intergalactic empire and the other candidate is evil superman or some bullshit like that, but nah he’s the mayor of some U.S. state, he could literally pull up tomorrow with “yeah and also I was on the Epstein Island” and “leftists” would clap like, “but oh he’s bett-” why do you want a person who sexually assaulted another human, who bombed villages who was a guard in a torture facility in power, why are you standing behind him, 41 year old fuck used all his prime years of age to torture and hurt people weaker than him and now that he can no longer do that he’s grifting as a retirement plan.
We need to find a way to discuss racism and how it has historically undermined class solidarity without immediately triggering defensiveness in white people. They just stop listening and start accusing people of having a victim complex, so the conversation goes nowhere. The implication of that filibustering is that we need to meet them where they are if we want to be involved with leftist politics.
On the other hand, this issue is used cynically to marginalize us by identifying our politics as something inherently racist. It is always bad-faith actors who make this claim, but it is more effective than it would be if we could actually face these issues head-on.
Need a real strategy for that. I am going to read some old literature because smarter, more involved people than I have covered this ground. Any suggestions would be welcome.
Nothing I have ever tried has worked. A lot of white people have good intentions (or at least think they do) . They know that being racist is bad but have very little understanding or curiosity about the mechanisms, biases, and beliefs that ensure its propagation. Very similar to how men don’t see how other men act towards women because it is often hidden from many of us until we date women and experience it firsthand. So when a video comes out of some despicable behavior, men think it is just one bad actor and not indicative of a system of oppression. Thus, we do not need to do anything - simply point out bad actions when they occur and pretend that no pattern exists.
I don’t have any idea how to get through these defense mechanisms. Nothing I have tried has worked except just pretending that the left has cured racism with class politics, but that is neither true, productive or satisfying.
lol crackers talking about anyone else having a “victim complex” when they literally can’t go a single day without finding ways to pretend to be oppressed. fucking trust fund frat bros saying it’s the holocaust all over again because they saw a Palestinian flag
They are so quick to go there, too. I wish I could just ask them: when was the time that black people were “spoiled” in this country? Can we all agree it was not before the Civil Rights Act? So ignore Rodney King to George Floyd because of whatever racist reasons they come up with- was 1970 to 2016 such an amazing time for black people that it makes up for the most sadistic and cruel system of slavery that the world has ever known? For the casual, systemicremoved, imprisonment and lynching of black people that continues to this day?
Anyone who sees non-white people as human would find those implications to be intolerable, which does raise some uncomfortable possibilities.
Its like some of them have absolutely no shame. They will find us talking among ourselves here to actually be directed at them and intended to hurt their feelings because we have nothing better to do with our lives. I don’t want to push white people too hard because they need to be part of the solution for progress but something has to give here.
Edit: Censoring my post because it accurately explains the horror of chattel slavery… How do you justify that whitewashing to yourself? It really makes me sick - fuck this website too
This is a hard question. How do we teach empathy to white people?
I think the best way to combat this is to bring up white people from history who were actually based and not racist. Then explain if someone from 70 years ago during peak segregation/slavery/genocides/colonialism felt these were bad then there’s no excuse now. Basically having a list of white heros(ew) for them to look up to.
They need their egos boosted a bit and can’t relate that well to ethnic folk.
John Brown comes to mind.
My list is very very small at the moment. But Rachel Corrie is on it too, a modern example. Also Patrick Tilman
CW: Zionism
Checking up on my local sub. Oops, all Zionism! Liberals are finally letting all their satanic racism out with a shit-eating grin on their face as the millionaire techbros run around crying “I’M OPPRESSED, I’M OPPRESSED!”
I edited that one quote to make it suited to the present day:
You start out in 2004 by saying, “anti-white racism” By 2014 you can’t say “anti-white racism”—that hurts you, backfires. So you say stuff like, uh, antisemitism, Islamic terrorism, and all that stuff. Now, you’re talking about protecting synagogues, and all these things you’re talking about are totally religious things and a byproduct of them is, blacks get hurt worse than whites.… “We just want to let people worship in peace,” is much more abstract than even the antisemitism thing, uh, and a hell of a lot more abstract than “anti-white racism.”
Let this be yet another reminder to never trust a cracker
i hate when i’m complaining about something and a white person gives me unsolicited advice. go put some cream on so the sun doesn’t eat you
They think they know everything because everyone always takes what they say seriously. Nobody ever just told them they are wrong or rude
Been depressed all day. Felt like there was nothing better to do… I’m digging it so far. I’ll probably be done by the end of the week, since I usually work fast on these
Downtuned it 4 semitones… went from the usual drop E to drop C1
I personally don’t feel comfortable with how queer people in the west take cowboys as a gay icon. Cowboys are a symbol of genocide, settler colonialism and white supremacy, why do you want anything to do with them.
The west is an oppression onion and each layer is saying “fuck you I got mine”
GraHHam Platner shit, SA, imperialism, war crimes
“Democrats begin pulling Platner endorsements after Maine candidate faces sexual assault allegation”
Sure, whatever it takes to tank this war criminal’s campaign. But it is not lost upon me that it took him allegedly SAing a white woman to finally be recognized as a monster by many of his supporters. His bloodthirsty fantasies about slaughtering poc in. imperialist and colonialist wars of aggression weren’t enough. His record of enthusiastic participation in both the official armed forces and then later mercenary groups, both of which are famous for war crimes on top of already fighting on the wrong side of unjust (and, incidentally, illegal) wars wasn’t enough. His Nazi tattoo wasn’t enough.
This says a lot about the priorities of his supporters and whom they consider human enough to care about.
Yeah. Again they saw a man who made his antiwar stance all about muh PTSD and ‘it was just the wrong strategy’ and wasting taxpayer money and never a word of regret for the brown lives he made worse or deprived and thought “wow this guy is my guy”.
It is odd how many “leftists” legitimately cannot tell the difference between an ex-troop actually being penitent and condemning the imperialist apparatus and fighting for peace vs. an ex-troop who says they are sad they didn’t win enough and want to improve the US military into a more lethal fighting force with more rewards for the grunts.
They see both of these and cannot tell the difference. It’s why they fall for Platner, Gabbard, etc
Race trumps everything. Whites will always be loyal to their white interests no matter what. As long as they get the benefits it gives them they will always throw us under the bus.
Really activates the almonds how none of this stuff was a deal breaker. Even if he does replace Collins, I still doubt he’d actually do what he says and he’ll just be another John Fetterman/AOCIA.
spoiler
Honest to God. The inconsistency and hypocrisy pissed me the fuck off so much. White Western “leftists” only care about themselves.
put a little more time to the song today
it’s been a while…
every time I go into any Hexbear thread about “antisemitism,” I end up being like 🤦🏿 at one comment or another, NGL
The future of Latin America seems so grim, never will I forgive or forget what these pigs have done. A return to the guerrilla warfare and revolutions of the last century might be the only way out, Cuba for personal reasons is in my heart more than ever before.
I hate that so many immigrants in the US and their descendants hate on Mexican people like it’s a rite of passage to live here. I cut someone off for it long ago. I think about it everyday and I no longer regret setting that boundary.
I have one life, and if the option to not spend it with someone extremely racist appears, I aim to take it.
Reminding me of my grandfather, oof
