Remember, EM POC only!
Sleepy as hell again, comrades, but I might as well get this posted up before I go ahead and rest.
That aside, let’s get those weekly EM POC vibes going!
I’m in! My bus driver arc is happening!
VENERATE THE NOBLE BUS DRIVER!
My kind of people!
UlyssesT confirmed POC/ethnic minority?
Welcome, tovarshi
My ethnicity is… complicated. And I have so many biological family members that hate POC/ethnic minorities up to and almost including themselves that I moved across the country partially to escape them entirely.
I was saluting bus drivers specifically there. I take the bus quite a bit and it’s an essential service.
Bus driving is so cool, I always think about the bus drivers in japan who kept working through their strike bus just would not collect fares.
The song be like
but faster
Lesgo, Erisma!
Congratulations!! 🎈👏🏾
Okay I need to rant about this godawful short story that one of my profs had us discuss today.
It’s called “To the New World” and it’s by Ryka Aoki. It’s really short, if you want to read it; I got through it in less than ten minutes. But you probably don’t want to read it, because it’s bad, lol. The gist of it is that it’s about a Vietnamese-American trans woman celebrating her dead grandma’s birthday and running into her racist white terf “friend”.
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This story makes it seem like one can’t be vegan and Asian at the same time. The main character, Millie, has this moment where she heats up a non-vegan food to celebrate her grandma’s birthday and then thinks about how those foods are intrinsically connected to her childhood memories, while the racist white terf character, Sierra, talks a lot about veganism. So as an Asian vegan — am I supposed to draw the conclusion that going vegan is against my culture, or that it’s white terf shit, or something? lol
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This story’s ending draws an allegorical connection between Millie’s grandmother escaping the Vietnam war to come to Amerikkka, and being trans. It talks about Amerikkka in glowing terms, i.e. “there’s cheap produce! omg! this is amazing” So am I supposed to draw the conclusion that uhh being trans is cool because it’s just like immigrating to the imperialist settler-colony that commits genocide around the world and at home for the sake of maintaining it’s hegemony?
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I think the story is trying to end on a triumphant note, but said triumphant note includes a line where Millie thinks to herself that she should ask Sierra out? I mean personally I would not ask out a racist white terf, but I guess that’s just me.
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There are completely unnecessary lines about East Asian people in it for like half the pages. Yes they’re said by Sierra and we’re not supposed to like her, but when I told my best friend some of the lines in this story he said that it felt like my professor had assigned me a microaggression to read, lol.
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This is just pettiness, but I really disliked the writing style. The prose was just awkward and there were some really poorly placed similes.
Okay, first of all, for the story in particular, YIKES, WHAT THE FUCK!?
Second of all, as a vegan of color, I’ve always found the painting of veganism as “racist” and “colonialist” or even simply “white” super inconsiderate in that respect as well.
Aside from the fact that it’s obviously false, if I take a sentiment like “Veganism is white and racist!” at face value, what’s effectively being communicated is that I’m going against my race, culture, and people just by being vegan. It’s saying that if I’d rather be a vegan than be a carnist, then it’s inherently impossible for me to not be shameful about my blackness.
I’ve always found that incredibly toxic of non-vegan leftists to do. It’s especially frustrating when done by white carnists, but of course, it still makes my blood boil when done by carnists of color as well.
I’ve struggled with enough internalized racism by listening to reactionary white queers screech about how they believe that POC have higher rates of queerphobia; I sure as hell don’t want that same cycle repeated but for veganism instead.
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any of yall seen the struggle session over on lemmygrad?
yikes
still kinda confused on the actual differences between wishing death (eg. “death to […]”) on ppl and wishing COVID on them. couldn’t figure out an answer from the thread either
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Alla sudden because the mod staff is cool with them, I’m going off on a comrade when that so-called ‘comrade’ wants to take up for plague rats.
I’m pretty new to Hexbear. I’ve lurked for about two or three years and just made an account a few months ago. Twice now I’ve had to deal with cracker shit that results in said crackers whining to the mods and getting my posts removed.
Absolutely no self-crit about how religion was tied to the colonization of my people and the effect that’s had on us. No consideration about gun culture in the US and how it results in people who look like me getting shot because they rang the wrong doorbell. Then I’m the asshole because I stop entertaining their settler brains and treat them like I would chuds.
If I didn’t have this disability bullshit I’d leave the US and join some leftwing terrorist group in the global south somewhere (in WarCraft 2). I have zero faith in a leftist revolution happening in the US because even our “”““left””“” is in need of re-education. I think Black, Latine, Native American, LGBTQ+, and some Asian-American people are all ready to go. We want an end to the white patriarchal capitalist world order.
But whites? They are incredibly difficult to work with. It’s even worse when you leave leftist spaces. Just look at how many of them bend over backwards to defend Israel or start foaming at the mouth when China is mentioned.
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great point. had some time to think abt this:
- every action has a level of validity so it, depending on your moral values. helping someone out is very valid, so is fighting back when bullied
- wishing bad consequences on ppl may not sound like the right or ““correct”” thing to do, but as an expression of your emotions - sympathy, empathy, trauma, etc. - it is a very valid thing to do and should be welcomed
- and not recognizing that validity - for example, sites that condemn “death to […]”, “violence against […] is justified”, etc. - tends to come from a privileged, white cis hetero perspective of what are and aren’t valid emotions. quite a few lemmygrad.ml users and the lemmygrad.ml mod to me are engaging in this
- so wishing COVID on someone is valid as a way to say “fuck you” to ppl who not only don’t recognise the harmful consequences of COVID-minimalism but risk spreading COVID and its harmful consequences to other ppl
- also i don’t think wishing COVID can really be considered an actual threat because how tf can i give you COVID through a computer screen lol
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You were absolutely correct and I’m sorry y’all got hit so hard by covid. People don’t want to face how lucky they are if they haven’t gotten some horrible new health condition from covid of acknowledge that it could happen to them
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Honestly its strange to treat wishing covid on people the same as a “kys” yet not having a hard policy to crackdown on people with anti-mask opinions or that minimise covid
yeah, having anti-mask or covid-minimizing opinions is basically a “kys” especially to disabled/immunocompromised people
agreed
Wtf.
I stand with fraudogg. The Left must take Covid seriously.
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i wear a p100 respirator and i avoid all covid-minimizing discourse.
Oof
As of now, it has been 1 hour and 10 minutes since Marcellus Williamson’s execution… for a murder he likely never committed
I have nothing else to add to it
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“well, he was no angel” card.
If he was no angel, then Amerikkka’s the Greatest Satan
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It’s pretty cool being Chinese and having literally every single non-far left as fuck commie friend I’ve befriended at some point since I’ve moved to America say something incredibly racist about my people
I used to try and educate them but it never works unless they’re like, a borderline homeless trans POC since they have 0 reason to trust society over me
at this point, I just immediately cut my losses and move to other people
There’s an uncomfortable number of white libs who recognize anti-black and anti-hispanic racism is wrong, but will turn around and shit all over Asians. It really shows where their minds are at. They don’t see black/indigenous Americans or central/south American immigrants as competition because their racism says “those people are unskilled and uneducated.” They become hostile towards the so-called “model minority” both because they view Asian countries as competition to white hegemony and because they see wealthy, educated Asians in the same professions as them.
This becomes really obvious when you see them infantilize black or Hispanic colleagues, yet are passive-aggressive towards Asian coworkers/“friends.” They’ll understand why saying “You’re really articulate!” to a black person is a microaggression, but won’t hesitate to body shame/fetishize (sometimes both at the same time) an Asian woman.
They’re too far gone, I don’t even bother anymore.
They’ll just accuse you of being brainwashed or some shit
They don’t know I’m very happy because I got the new job I really wanted.
Congrats, tovarshi!
Thank you, Comrade!
congratulations! 
I’m eating from the trash can of gratitude. Thanks! anytime
Congrats
Gracias!
Congrats!
Thank you!
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So excited to join the Raytheon family!
jk
Minimizing COVID is the 12th form of liberalism.
(no but seriously, my best friend and I were considering assigning Combat Liberalism to our COVID-consciousness club to read)
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here comes my monthly “i should be in china rn” yearning
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Tbh I’d love to visit Cuba someday, but I feel like I should learn Spanish before that.
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Now what advice could he possibly give? But I donno. If Suge Knight told me my life was in danger, I’d believe it.
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“do not go by the name ‘Brother Love’ in prison. That is not a good nickname.”
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haha true
Y’allo
U’allo
y’allo
Black Americans who recognize the flaws of liberalism but then go rightward as a result are like people who input the correct directions into a GPS but then go the complete opposite direction of what the GPS says.
go the complete opposite direction of what the GPS says.
Nah, POC Cons just drive like this, regardless of any barriers ahead, because it’s the most straight way to their destination.
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POC libs do be like this when they figure their goals, but are more likely to get lost while driving
Commenting extra not to get 88 comments
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on my class we were talking about the drama between mexico and spain over not inviting the king to the inauguration of sheinbaum, and while most of it was the standard, the king of spain doesnt matter and so on, one of my classmates said “there werent any bad guys during colonization, only grey” and i just had to stare
and say they literally did genocide, then i just ignore themYeah I mean it’s not like they wiped out entire religions, languages, and cultures or anything to the point my people aren’t even sure what our homeland was called by our ancestors but sure. The Spanish colonizers did nothing wrong.
Spain
“there werent any bad guys during colonization, only grey”
Putang inang aso
yall, potential racist and islamophobe spotted. i commented for clarification, but it’s a 2 day old acc so safe to say we should report it for racism and islamophobia
They deleted the message so either they realized they fucked up or they’re a fucking coward.
Yeah, the mod removed it…
Ah, misread it.
good
check out this mutual aid post by everyones fav em poc mod https://hexbear.net/post/3566367?scrollToComments=false
Huh, long time no see, Oths
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Gonna go bump anyways
I’ve been extremely busy touching grass lol. I’m so tired. @Angel@hexbear.net can vouch for me lol.
A mixed(Black) coworker put in the mind of another POC coworker that the company saves Black people since a few layoff sessions happened and some poor performing Black coworkers survived. Eventhough we also agree there’s other poor performers who keep surviving of various races. And eventhough the poor performing Black coworkers are also getting targeted, just not first. So odds are, they probably aren’t paid enough to be worth letting go first but now the seed is planted 😒
