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How can white leftists be better regarding BIPOC comrades and the larger BIPOC communities? (hexbear.net)

submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Building off some good discussion in the other thread today. I’m thinking about how can white Hexbear users can be better here, and in leftist spaces, AND when we engage with the broader BIPOC communities? What are we doing wrong, and what can we do that’s better?

And I 100% get that’s it’s not on marginalized folks to explain it to us. I do. It’s just, at this moment I’m trying not to get overwhelmed with feeling like it’s just not possible to make the world better. Not even get us to socialism, just getting things to be a tiny bit better. I don’t know what else to do. So I’m reaching out to my BIPOC comrades with an open hand. If you feel like sharing, please do.

For the white folks, we need to be better. We do. It may not be comfortable to hear, but we do. Maybe we’re not as bad as the libs and the chuds on this but that’s not a valid measuring stick. Come on.

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Mentioned elsewhere here but I cannot overemphasize the importance of not jumping to "but I have a different opinion" quite so easily, particularly when it comes to issues relating to existential threats. Not that every BIPOC person is right or you have to agree with every BIPOC person, but dialing the contrarian instinct back a bit is one of the best things you can do. Instead, recognize, empathize, ask questions, and suggest your position respectfully and after consideration.

This is basically the same way to create sn inclusive space in general, btw.