Remember, EM POC only!

Vibes are off. That’s really all I can say about my energy right now.

How are all of the rest of the EM POC comrades?

  • Neptium [comrade/them]@hexbear.net
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    3 hours ago

    So I made a mistake in engaging in a post about Islam - again - and I told myself before to not engage but I just had to because of the “suspicious” responses in that thread and now I have been accused of occidentalism - a literal reverse racism argument. Not that they’ll even be aware of the term but I didn’t expect people to read the books and articles I listed at the start of my argument (who reads anyways, am I right?)

    And now I wonder why I stopped my break from posting on this site in the first place.

    Maybe you all were right that this site can not be (re)educated. I apologize - I have not interacted enough with white people to know they were like this.

    Going to take a long break.

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    So I made a mistake in engaging in a post about Islam - again - and I told myself before to not engage but I just had to because of the “suspicious” responses in that thread and now I have been accused of occidentalism - a literal reverse racism argument. Not that they’ll even be aware of the term but I didn’t expect people to read the books and articles I listed at the start of my argument (who reads anyways, am I right?)

    And now I wonder why I stopped my break from posting on this site in the first place.

    Maybe you all were right that this site can not be (re)educated. I apologize - I have not interacted enough with white people to know they were like this.

    Going to take a long break.

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      Meanwhile I’m like the exact opposite lol. I wish I didn’t have this half white bullshit to deal with. It’s really not that great. It’s like half my family is just walking, talking racism machines I constantly have to deal with. Just a barrage of settler-colinialist shit.

      But when I’m amongst the PoC half of my family, all that disappears. I don’t have to deal with the entitlement or persecution complexes or willful ignorance. There’s still some brainworms stemming from liberalism and a lack of theory, but it’s much easier to interact with than reactionary, white supremacist ideology.

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        impersonating a yt person

        grillman wow that’s wild how horrible ethnicity are, I’m glad you’re one of the good ones

        I was one of the only ethnic minorities at my secondary school, and wasn’t wise enough to not internalise this self-hating mindset. It’s something people there expected from me, and when I didn’t present myself as subservient to the superior british culture, I was suddenly breaking all kinds of civility and politeness boundaries. And if you do comply then see spoiler.

        Not worth it cringe

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    i know it’s probably a good idea to leave my school’s discord server (full of blue no matter who white libs) but i feel compelled to stay there and keep arguing with them. like, it’s not even that i think i’m going to change their minds. it’s that i feel like i just can’t let the absolutely ghoulish stuff they say slide without presenting some challenge to it.

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    the white people at my school are deeply unserious. a whole saga has happened this past week that i don’t have the energy to relate right now, but it’s mostly just solidified that i want nothing to do with the vast majority of white people here.

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      but it’s mostly just solidified that i want nothing to do with the vast majority of white people here.

      God if that’s not a mood. Doesn’t matter who wins the election to me anymore; it’s just become clear to me that regardless of who wins, I don’t have enough guns or ammo. This is the year the Earthseed parables start getting blatantly worse and I need to be ready for when the crackers take their masks off.

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        I feel loads of folks on the left would disagree though.

        If they’re westerners, and ESPECIALLY if they’re white, their opinions don’t fuckin matter, frankly. It’s been feeling like it’s 1 in fuckin 50 so-called ‘comrades’ in the hwhite west that don’t have immortal anti-AES brainworms; and 1 in fuckin 100 that’ll actually cop to the carceral slavery their country perpetrates. Fuck 'em if they disagree, if you don’t have a disciplined party that has an enforced line? Your takes do not matter to me because they’re probably ignorant at best and downright supremacist at worst.

        I don’t trust cracker dogs to be able to deworm and housebreak themselves without an actually-intersectional party behind them anymore.

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    I hope all my EMPOC homies stay safe. Shit is getting weird. Please plug in with some friends/family/comrade and build healthy networks. There is a real see and unseen vibe shift. Stay woke

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    I usually pull my punches a bit IRL, but if anyone brings up the joke that was made about Puerto Rico at the Trump rally yesterday I’m straight up going to say that any pasty white boy that calls Puerto Rico trash when his country has had a direct hand in impoverishing it should go fucking die in a ditch. Word for word what I’m going to say because I know that its going to come up at some point. I’m fucking tired and irritated by American politics.

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      Forgive me for fedposting but this song’s lyrics now resonate with me, after hearing that racist remark

      "Ang sarap na pugutan ng ulo kung sinuman ang t*nginang nagsabi ng ‘Basta Gapo abno’ "

      translation

      It’d be nice to behead the motherfucker who said that Olongapo is just a shithole


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      It’s the exact same energy as when I hear Euros degrade nations in Africa and the Caribbean, as if colonialism hadn’t haunted these places for ages.

      • Rania 🇩🇿@lemmygrad.ml
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        Hear a lot from Fr*nchies, “oh we pillaged you and genocided you for 132 years yet you haven’t landed on the moon in 62 years? pfft failed state” like dawg you left us with a literacy rate of 3%, no factories, half the agricultural space used for making wine, millions dead missing and wounded, unfair trade deals, and a thousand other things.