EM POC WEEKLY THREAD 12/9/24 (hexbear.net)

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QUESTION OF THE WEEK: if you could force every cracker on hexbear to read one book on race/racism what would it be? what about one book in general

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[-] [email protected] 31 points 5 months ago

when i see people talking bout their antisemitic/nazi/4chan phases like its a normal part of adolescence

[-] [email protected] 22 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

Like even if I gave them the benefit of analyzing the conditions that lead to them having those views as adolocents (learned from parents, peers, just society in general, poor material conditions, etc.) the fact that at the drop of a hat they'll revert to those views or try and tell off the legitimate concerns from POC over someone's problematic views makes me think that they haven't really completely gotten rid of that part of themselves. White privilege really is alive and well among these people.

[-] [email protected] 21 points 5 months ago

I feel the same when I see someone talking about how they used to be in the USAmerican military

[-] [email protected] 11 points 5 months ago

Even when I was full of liberal brainworms as a teenager, I still came to the conclusion you shouldn't join the military to fight unjust or illegal wars (i.e. all the wars the US has been part of since the end of WWII). There were large portions of Afghanistan who hadn't even heard 9/11 had happened. From their point of view, these barbaric Americans showed up put of nowhere and started demanding they hand people over. Meanwhile, those Americans opened up heroin production and sex trafficking.

Then there's Abu Ghraib and the illegal invasion of Iraq. In neither of these conflicts was the US doing the right thing. We all saw the same photos. We've all seen the news stories about crimes committed in Afghanistan. Anyone exposed to that and still wanted to join is an asshole.

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