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submitted 6 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

EM POC ONLY!!!


This is home for me.

I love all of my comrades on c/em_poc, but I wanna especially give a huge shoutout to @[email protected] for doing a lot to help me keep my composure. I don't know if they quite realize how much I appreciate them!

Each and every single one of you makes me feel less alone through these struggles, though.

I hope all of you are well! sankara-bass

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[-] [email protected] 25 points 6 months ago

Yo, this mass-deportation talk is scaring the fuck out of me. After working at various immigrants rights orgs, it seriously sounded hyperbolized—cuz like, I know the racist-ass sentiment to mass-deport is strong in America, but I kept thinking that it’s an impossible task, logistically.

But then lately I’ve been seeing all the “fuck around find out” lib-fash shit and it’s starting to seem like a feasible task. Like how the fuck could it not be if the libs are expressly saying they’ll turn a blind fucking eye.

[-] [email protected] 15 points 6 months ago

Real shit I'm at risk of getting deported (though not as high risk as people who are less gray with their documentation status) and I've decided ill just kill myself it it happens shrug-outta-hecks

[-] [email protected] 15 points 6 months ago

Don’t, I’m gonna need an ally at the camps heart-sickle

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[-] [email protected] 22 points 6 months ago

On Instagram, in regards to Sarah McBride being a reactionary, Zionist piece of libshit, I stated

Reminder that a white person being a part of a marginalized group does NOT absolve them of their whiteness and KKKolonizer mentality

Fittingly enough, a white trans woman responded, "People who unironically use Maoist Standard English need to be studied."

I didn't even put up with it; I just straight-up blocked.

It's pretty obvious what's going on here. Trans cracKKKer is upset that my very real and true statement struck a nerve, but SShe has no way of responding without taking the mask off and putting the hood on, so what SShe did instead was poke fun at me for using MSE. Basically, it's an ad hominem SShe used to KKKompenSSate for her being a SSalty KKKraKKKKKKer.

What's even more telling about this is that MSE intends to sprinkle humor into statements regardless, but usage of it obviously doesn't lessen the accuracy of what I'm saying.

[-] [email protected] 19 points 6 months ago

"Maoist Standard English" came from AAVE anyways, so it's fitting a white woman would have a problem with it.

[-] [email protected] 15 points 6 months ago

Typical anti-cracker-aktion, I feel for ye

[-] [email protected] 22 points 6 months ago

SAY IT LOUD!!! IM BLACK AND IM PROUD!!!

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[-] [email protected] 14 points 6 months ago

I'M BLACK, AND I'M PROUD!!! red-fist

[-] [email protected] 22 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

I find it hilarious that white people are telling me that "I am going to be sorry " for voting green party as if I'm not already sorry to have been born in a country which will never accept me.

People like us have been facing threat , certainly from the time that we become a sexual threat or quarry to white men. My life has been war from when I was 12 years old until I forced them to stop messing with me.

So I can't help but laugh in the face of some white dude who has never felt threatened in his life telling me that I am not accurately assessing the forces arrayed against me.

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[-] [email protected] 22 points 6 months ago

There's something eerily depressing about the fact that even a "good and expected to be much better than average" leftist space like Hexbear is still incapable of being truly respectful to POC. sadness-abysmal

It makes me wonder if there is truly any hope for the whites to be decent, even in leftist spaces.

I've been quite depressed all morning, but definitely for more reasons than just Hexbear being this degree of racist that utterly shocked me. I think it's still getting to me because I'm in such a shock that, for the first time, a Hexbear post led me into a deep depression that made me cry and have to seek mental health support just to calm down enough to go to sleep.

I never thought this would've happened. 

[-] [email protected] 14 points 6 months ago

If they were forced to like they were with transphobia, they would shape up or ship out aside from the wreckers

Or like with yakubian and pumpkin spice jokes they'd just die out after the site (with mod help) decides it's unacceptable

[-] [email protected] 14 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

No , unfortunately there is not much hope for us but we can move the ball forward for the next generations and in the meantime stand in solidarity with the left but also with each other .

We are still the out group here and that will usually not be acknowledged but during times of stress we will always be the fall guys.

The only danger is ever thinking that we are not in danger

[-] [email protected] 21 points 6 months ago

Al_Sham deleted her account T_T she was one of our best posters walter-breakdown

[-] [email protected] 18 points 6 months ago

The reality of being EMPOC on this site, unfortunately...

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[-] [email protected] 21 points 6 months ago

adult white queers who base their identity around Greek mythology are the actual worse. like 90% if them are white supremacist. i will not fuck with them, I genuinely despise them. please grow the fuck up and research any other part of history. if you can tell me about how gay ancient greek and rome were but not any other country you are a queer white supremacist.

[-] [email protected] 19 points 6 months ago

Cis white men: obsessed about ancient rome and greece because strong alpha male
Queer whites: obsessed about them because uhm actually they were super gay
Reality: they're obsessed about them because they think they were white

[-] [email protected] 17 points 6 months ago

yes!! exactly! and its not like they study the actual history. the celebrate a fantasy version of ancient Greece free of misogyny and slavey. like I cant tell you how many queer people I've heard say things like "I don't want to go to work, I want to be gay and write poems all day, eating grapes, like i should be doing in ancient Greece" GIRL Sappho didn't do actual work because she had SLAVES, you're fantasizing about being a slave owner right now. same thing with white queers who call themselves achilleans. like sapphic is less bad because it has an etymological reason for existing, it has a history. ACHILEANS are white queers who are obsessed with tic tok "retellings" of ancient greek myths that they think are canon. no joke raina i have met dozens and dozens of these people and they are insufferable

[-] [email protected] 14 points 6 months ago

When learning English I used to turn on those youtube videos of tumblr posts being read and I got blasted with white queer fantasies of ancient Greece, if they were back then they'd either be slaves or slave owners.

also side note it's Rania not Raina

[-] [email protected] 13 points 6 months ago

also side note it's Rania not Raina

apologies Rania!

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[-] [email protected] 20 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

Spent a lot of time around whitey this week and they're completely shook over Trump winning (as though they're the ones who will face any serious consequences). Not one mention of Palestine. They'll list every reason under the sun except the elephant in the room. People didn't show up to vote because the options were Tojo and Hitler. Genocide overseas or genocide at home.

A more generous (but naive) person would say they're just ignorant of what's been happening and are hyper-focused on Trump and Musk. But I think they do know and want to pretend it isn't happening and the US isn't complicit. They either agree with zionism or they think of the US as "the good guys." They don't want to say it out loud because then they'd have to acknowledge what we're doing and the cognitive dissonance would physically manifest.

Related to this all, I went to a funeral for a guy I met once or twice, but was related to one of my mom's lifelong friends. I was told everyone was vaxxed and they really wanted to see me there etc. etc. Lo and behold, this motherfucking whitey shows up and she's got the coof. "She's past the five days of being contagious and tested negative this morning and...." No, shut the fuck up. I have a compromised immune system. Nor do I want it. And of course people are hugging her and coming up to chat but it's "fine because she's wearing a mask" (that isn't the right kind and she's taking off to blow her nose as she cries over her dead relative). And of course she gets up and goes to stand by the drinks and cookies to chat with people and cry.

Luckily I already got my free shit so I was able to leave. Got into the car and immediately had a "Thanks for not saying 'Another crackkker down unlimited genocide on the first world' at Grandpa's funeral, that took a lot of restraint," play in my head. I was the only non-white person there out of like 100+ people. Maybe they'll all get covid and I can gloat later, so that's nice.

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[-] [email protected] 19 points 6 months ago

Even for forms of bigotry not directly related to race, marginalized white people in leftist spaces seem to seriously have far less skepticism than I do as an intersectional black person in leftist spaces.

For instance, as a black trans person, not only do I expect white people in leftist spaces to have racist brainworms, but I expect cis people in leftist spaces to have transphobic brainworms as well.

However, it seems like white trans people in leftist spaces, on the other hand, not only ignore their own racist brainworms, but it seems that so many of them just all willy-nilly assume that your average cisgender person in leftist spaces is going to be totally accepting of trans people and not have any strong transphobic brainworms whatsoever.

I find that they don't have enough skepticism, but I do believe that I'm on the opposite end of this issue, in that I have too much skepticism. It's to a point where I feel that somebody being white and/or cis in and of itself is a major red flag for me.

A kind-of-an-example-of-this-but-not-really I recall is when a user on Hexbear posted a thread about SSouth KKKorean gender troubles, and they referenced the 4B movement and praised it as some kind of "epic, based WAOW! feminist movement," and many trans users were commenting on this post praising 4B as well. After it came out that 4B is racist, bioessentialist, and just flat-out awful in so many ways, people were cringing at themselves.

What's my point? Well, if I hear about any female separatist movement, especially in a place like Occupied KKKorea, my first thought isn't going to be, "Wow, this is epic girl power and a powerful middle finger to patriarchy!" Instead, my first thought is going to be, "Let me research this group and find out about all of the terrible shit that they support, and while I'm at it, let me acknowledge how undialectical their movement is, as it has no demands and it is rooted in zero feminist theory."

The fact that womanists have pushed against white feminists doing this shit in the United States educates my skepticism very well here.

[-] [email protected] 18 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

I hope im not taking away from your point. But Im also highly sceptical of any modern feminist movement that is not somewhere in the far-left spectrum. Feminism without leftist (and yes radical) politics is often just a moment away from declaring hillary clinton a girlboss.

[-] [email protected] 13 points 6 months ago

I 100% agree with you because mainstream feminism is extremely liberal, non-intersectional, bioessentialist, and effectively amounts to "reactionary thought and white supremacy in heels" more than anything else.

I may never label myself as a feminist again, but I take no shame and nothing but pride in calling myself a womanist.

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[-] [email protected] 19 points 6 months ago

I love how I'm seeing tons of white liberal women on social media constantly say "Kamala lost because of misogyny" while not bringing up white supremacy at all. It's strikingly funny to me how often they've avoided mentioning the racial aspect because they'd feel too complicit in contributing to not just Kamala's loss but the very racist institutions responsible for keeping POC oppressed themselves if they actually were to address these things.

This reminds me of this comment of mine.

I literally saw a post that showed Trump voter stats for race and gender, but they were completely separate, and white people and men as groups were roughly the same percentage, but this liberal white woman commented on the post, "Wow, men are not okay" or something to that effect. This is just reinforcing the theory that many Western white feminists do not care about ending oppression; they just want patriarchy to stop inconveniencing them personally. They'll side with white supremacy if given the chance.

On top of that, all of these various scratched liberal moments have been excellent case studies on how little liberals care about oppression that doesn't personally impact them. Hell, they actually want to keep it flourishing! Any liberal who says otherwise is just doing the typical performative, bourgeois bullshit.

And this isn't even me going into the obvious flaws of focusing so much on identity as the foremost reason why Kamala lost while neglecting a multitude of many other reasons.

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[-] [email protected] 18 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

I don't know if I'm just a bitter old man already but whenever I hear other grown black men whine and complain about being a nerd I find it irksome. Like bro I get it, I was bullied and shit too. I feel for you I really do, but at the same time, we are grown. Just like whatever shit you like man. It isn't a big deal. No one cares. It's fine, like what you like, do your thing. It also doesn't make you special, everyone likes nerdshit now.

It'd be different we were in like middle-school or high school, but my brother we have 401ks now, just buy your little figures and shut the fuck up.

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[-] [email protected] 17 points 6 months ago

Tailism is really annoying and sometimes seems to creep up even on this site. Once again @[email protected] is right

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[-] [email protected] 16 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

I'm so stressed right now it's unreal

The final test is coming next week, this will make or break me. If I pass I can move onto revenue service training and actually start serving the public. If I fail I slow the entire class down and risk getting terminated.

The ability to test air brakes, properly pre-trip inspect a bus, and actually drive it will demonstrate to the county, state, and fed that I can actually serve the public without being a liability.

Not only that but I'm banking on this one risky career change to be the last one and successful. I am running thin financially and I need to pass to become a real driver, actually help the community, and make a decent earning.

My family and friends are watching, the stakes are extremely high.

I'm trying not to sob

kitty-cri-potato

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[-] [email protected] 16 points 6 months ago

it kills me when leftists try to make things a popularity contest, real theater kid energy.

[-] [email protected] 16 points 6 months ago

I noticed something with my immigrant friends, the ones who try to integrate into "American" culture tend to latch on to white pop culture. Like a lot of them talk to me about friends, Seinfeld, and all those white shows from the 90s. I assume these were the shows and stuff that exported internationally just as part of white culture being dominant so it's not really a fault to them, but I've had to explain a little too many times how I've never seen those shows and have no idea what they're referencing. I don't expect them to know Black culture nor be able to pick it up properly either but it's just been an interesting thing I've noticed, white supremacy goes far.

[-] [email protected] 15 points 6 months ago

White westerners only recognize settler colonialism when they want to be racist towards immigrants and refugees of war, "So you're against white people coming into Africa and America and immigrating there but it's totally fine for Africans to immigrate to Europe and America?" and when you bring up the violence from settler colonialism they're like "oh so it's bad when settlers kill but okay when immigrants kill" like a smug gotcha moment.

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[-] [email protected] 14 points 6 months ago

I watch one video on that Johnny Somali guy and now Youtube keeps pushing me videos that sell a narrative about black expats being the problem Asian countries face. Conveniently ignoring the massive amount of white sexpats that have an affinity for girls under 18.

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[-] [email protected] 14 points 6 months ago

Started a job in a plant nursery today and everyone speaks and only speaks spanish, my own spanish pretty good I think but it's only gonna get better by leaps and bounds as I talk en espanol to people other than my parents. On the real tho the job is pretty good, mostly working with older women and they are kind to me. Whenever I get the chance to do some heavy lifting for them I will, they been teaching me how to work as effectively as possible so I don't get too tired.

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[-] [email protected] 14 points 6 months ago

Western liberals either see POC either as a playdoll that agrees to everything with them, or just evil. Cubans are the first type Chinese people are the second type.

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[-] [email protected] 13 points 6 months ago

IM SO HOT, IM SO CUTE, IM SO SEXYYYY (sure a lil chubby kitty-cri ) BUT GOD IM SO PRETTY, I LOVE MY LIPS, AND HAIR AND HOW BIG MY NOSE IS

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[-] [email protected] 13 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

i keep thinking about a comment I saw on one post, I think it was about the poster feeling angry a lot, one of the comments was suggesting getting a skill to be useful, I don't know why my mind keeps playing to that comment for some reason.

Finally found out that the evaluation for autism is now the 6th of December, no waiting till next year.

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