Petition to ban white people from talking about (cis) gender dynamics, please. There's an exhausting thread with a lot of dogshit takes going on right now, not entirely full of white people, but a lot of generalizing white masculinity culture to all men. I just do not and cannot trust people saying "death to men" and "masculinity is the whiteness of gender". There are too many examples of nonwhite men being demonized, dehumanized, and murdered, and trans women have been swept up in those dragnets as well, ans white women have been instrumental in that too. Someone more educated has probably written about this but I just don't feel capable of writing it up coherently

While all the "antizionist Jews" "academic left" and influencer activist class was having a meltdown about "Hamas Oct 7 violence bad", this is how the subaltern welcomed October 7th 2023.

crackers crawling out the woodwork to deflect criticism of kkkontrapoints into veiled accusations of transphobia

Saw this white dude comment on a Black man's post where he's venting about white people: "Blame it all on capitalism"

I told him to STFU, and he responded, "I think you might be a little confused. Capitalism is the reason why race exists as a social construct, so don't claim to be an anti-capitalist if you can't represent it."

This fucking clown-ass h0nky seems to think this is esoteric knowledge and that the only reason why people are pushing back against his "well ackchyually, the problem is capitalism" class reductionist BS is simply because they're not educated on race and capitalism. No, you bozo, of course I know how capitalism and racism are connected. This is fundamental knowledge, but I don't need you deflecting, you fucking clown-ass cracker. GTFO.

British dude saying that China is doing imperialism by flooding Hong Kong with “mainland colonizer tourists” is possibly the perfect encapsulation of the cracker “left”. Yes this was actually said, in real life.

Learning that North Korea bans Evangelicals and makes it illegal for them to spread their bullshit warms my heart

Who would've thought some white chick worth 500M dollars from the South born during segregation would have skeletons in her closet?
https://slate.com/culture/2017/08/visiting-dolly-partons-dinner-show-dixie-stampede.html

Advertised as an “extraordinary dinner show … pitting North against South in a friendly and fun rivalry,” Dolly Parton’s Dixie Stampede is the Lost Cause of the Confederacy meets Cirque du Soleil. It’s a lily-white kitsch extravaganza that play-acts the Civil War but never once mentions slavery.

There were smatterings of black people, though I didn’t spot any who appeared to be there by themselves. Some were one half of an interracial couple, while others appeared to be there with their white co-workers or friends. Such is the appeal of Dolly, it would seem, that it crosses all racial borders.

When the trio performed an up-tempo version of “Amazing Grace,” the audience decided to clap along. They were very off-beat.

Before we could get to the games, though, we had to get through a little “history” lesson about the early days of America, beginning with live buffalo and “Native Americans.” Were the dancers and acrobats actually of Native American descent? It was hard to tell, as their performance took place entirely under black light to the tune of Parton’s 2009 song “Sha-Kon-O-Hey!” (The title of the song is intended to be a phonetic spelling of the Cherokee word for the Smoky Mountains.) As one of them flew through the air on cables, a pre-recorded voice-over described the indigenous peoples as “steeped in legend … mystery … and magic!”

At the dance’s conclusion came a swift scene change: “The magic gave way to a harsh reality when settlers came in from the east.” In one of the more true-to-history moments in the show, these native peoples weren’t seen again for the rest of the performance.

Even with that gracious assistance, however, the South won at both my performances. (According to reports from other attendees, the South doesn’t always win, but it usually does.) All the while, Roger Ballard would alternate between extolling the virtues of both sides and encouraging them to stand up and boo one another. (At both shows I attended, the South was noticeably more boisterous in its heckling.)

So while it may be a surprise to the fictional producers of Springtime for Hitler when it becomes a hit, it’s no surprise to me that Dolly Parton’s very real Dixie Stampede is a hit, too, and has been for almost 30 years. This is the same country where The Birth of a Nation was once the biggest box-office hit of all time and where Gone With the Wind still is. Dolly Parton is right about one thing: Dixie Stampede is as American as America gets.

The bathroom stalls are also segregated between northerners and southerners and the northerner sign is black lmao

Glad to finally see some people pushing back against the excessive Dolly Parton glazing

I feel like such a weirdo for saying this and I’m torn between posting in the empoc thread or to the general site.  But I don’t have the time to field dogpiling today if the general site thinks I’m too much of an ultra for this, and it’s intended more of as introspective musing than as struggle-session fodder:  Dolly Parton has always made me uncomfortable

When did I ever even learn she existed?  Sometime in early childhood, but late enough that I’d learned that those white folks with those drawls and country-fashion and US flags were dangerous.  They were racist when I met them irl.  They were genocidal warmongers on the TV.  They glorified a culture that had murdered First Nations en masse, a culture that had tortured and enslaved Africans for generations, a culture that was now calling people who looked like me “terrorists” and doing horribly evil things.  The music that came from that culture and was inescapable on the radio, in stores, was all pro war nationalistic bullshit.  That culture was not to be trusted, and nor was anyone from it.

I didn’t know anything about Dolly Parton except that the biggest part of her brand was “white southern belle”, and so I was uncomfortable with her and did my best to just ignore her.  She didn’t stand out any more than anyone else really.  Until later, when for reasons I could not understand, it turned out she had become or perhaps had already been a meme and a queer, feminist, working class icon!  

Alright, so I would just ignore that discomfort or say fine, she’s a complicated woman.  Maybe I misjudged her.  She can’t help what culture she was born into, right?  I watched 9 to 5 and thought it was fun.  Not all discomfort or bias is legit or fair.

Well then today I saw this post: https://hexbear.net/post/9405321

Fucking what.  She was part of the same wave of post-9/11 jingoistic nationalistic country music that made me detest the genre so much!  And people just roll with it?  This cover creeps me out as much as if that were the 3rd Reich’s flag and she were posing in a Nazi suit with a hakenkreuz armband.  

Am I saying Dolly Parton is cancelled?  No, though that may just be cowardice on my part.  If I think about it more then maybe I will.  But, making it less about one dead woman who took some good stands and bad ones, it’s gotten me grappling more with how perplexed I’ve felt at liberals and even left-leaning people — not just white, black too! — leaning into the cowboy country wild western aesthetic.  When people were falling over themselves about Lil Nas X fusing country with hip-hop and queering it, my only reaction was “Meh — what in country can be disentangled from white supremacy?  Why would you want it?”  Everything cowboy-ey is tinged with slavery and genocide to me, and it’s weird to see anyone desiring it at all.  If you want some American Southwest desert culture that’s cooler, there were and are people living there who weren’t genocidal colonizing slavers!  I cannot shake this feeling that fetishization of “country” is inherently white supremacist, even when queer poc do it, even when they obviously don’t mean it that way.

RIP to Dolly anyway, and I’ll withhold the crabs raves out of respect for the good that she did do, but I don’t think I’ll ever be comfortable with her or any presentation of her legacy that does not grapple with everything that was problematic about what she represented and did.  But that is also a problem that is much bigger than just her, and I acknowledge it isn’t fair to pin it all on her.

Stay woke

Can I still be a leftist if I support a genocidal colonization project? And if I center the feelings of those that are committing and benefiting from the genocide?

If you say no youre an antisemite

The widespread use of AI doesn’t surprise me. It isn’t hard to imagine most people are intellectually lazy and incurious when seeing how easily they believe anticommunist propaganda and readily accept forms of bigotry without even trying to look deeper.

Thinking back to the time where I worked the phones for the city and would get complaint calls every single day from cracker residents, saying verbatim “there is a black man on the street,” and when asked what the problem was, they would say “he’s acting suspicious and dancing” or some shit

Crackers are Hitlerite hall monitors foaming at the mouth all hours of the day just chomping at the bit to lynch a POC

Oh boy another Hasan thread!!! Gonna have to go through it in a few hours to see who I need to add to my block list.

got called a "labor aristocrat" for pointing out the way servers talk about Black people lol
i am no longer wondering why there are so few of us on this website

It’s fucking annoying dealing with the fact that discussing racism in these leftist spaces is seen as passé now.

https://www.tumblr.com/blinkandyoullseeme/824616646888112128/a-couple-more-to-close-this-out-racism-is average interaction with white trans people. Much to say but you all know it. There will never be a community for us all cause addressing racism and acknowledging white trans people are privileged over racialized ones is a cia psy-op or infighting lmao I hate crackers so much, I hate them more everyday that passes. WHITE BEFORE ANYTHING ELSE.