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 @sweet_pecan@hexbear.net 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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    Revisiting the Libyan NATO invasion every once in a while to compare it to current geopolitical situations, crazy how the Arab league sanctioned the Jamahariya in such a short time, but then still having trades with the zionist entity. And like it was all for non valid reasons.

    • crazy how the Arab league sanctioned the Jamahariya in such a short time, but then still having trades with the zionist entity.

      Did they have a referendum on the sanctions, and which country voted for which? I’m guessing the Khaleej kkkompradors had something to do with it (i.e. Kuwait, Bahrain, Oman, UAE, Saudi Arabia)

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        The Arab League vote for a no-fly zone was opposed only by Syria and Algeria, reports from the Cairo meeting said.

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    How does everyone deal with skepticism of science based healthcare? Not sure if that’s the right phrase, but its the only way I can think of describing it. My mom was just talking to me about a naturalist doctor claiming that there was an assassination attempt against them and honestly I don’t even know where to start.

    I get where some of the skepticism comes from considering the long history of white society using POC as their guinea pigs for medical advancements. And the fact that in the West, especially in the US, healthcare is more about profit than it is about actually helping people doesn’t help. At the same time I feel like people take the skepticism too far and no matter what I’ve tried to say in the past about individual healthcare providers not being the problem, but rather the system that encourages profit over health people still fall back on their skepticism.

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      It’s a complicated question.

      Like I said before, my family has had a history of disabilities, from schizophrenia to leukemia.

      My entire family has had varying opinions and reactions when it came to healthcare in general.

      In my culture there was a traditional “village doctor” who would some of my family members would go to, but others explicitly rejected or did not think it works. There are also those that only go for “officially sanctioned” religious treatments. Many would visit a standard clinic or hospital as well and sometimes a mixture of all 3.

      Our family had cases where one refused to take their prescribed medicines for schizophrenia, or other stuff and it became a whole process to ensure that they start taking it again.

      It’s easy to say but the scepticism really just requires a lot of communal and familial involvement at an individual level. People will trust those that they are familiar with. In terms of policy that would mean heavy investment in community-level health clinics and other related policies.

      It obviously should bother you, because you are thinking they are not doing what it is in their best interests, but in the end we have to meet them where they are at and slowly chip away at their resistance. It definitely will not be easy.

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      There was like a survey done that found a find number of nurses and doctors that believed that black people have higher pain tolerance than white people

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        I remember that or a similar study.

        Shit sucks because it feels like there’s no in between. Just full on dehumanization on one end and dangerous misinformation in the other. Like I myself have some of that skeptcisim, especially when it come to mental health, but its grounded in history and studies such as the one that you mentioned.

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        Most of my family is the opposite. Big on natural and alternative medicine. Nothing wrong with that, but the way they completely disregard everything else is a bit bothersome.

        I’m most comfortable talking to my mom about it, but when I talk about all the systemic issues around healthcare she just goes back to blaming individuals and talking the type of shit that I hear from right wingers. But IDK… Maybe I shouldn’t let it bother me as much as it does.

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    The more I think of white people, especially those bourgeois spokesperson of the professional managerial class or small-to-medium settler-propetarian ranks, the more I think “yeah, maybe Pol Pot had a bit of an idea, when seperating the base people from the new people”

    spoiler

    Obviously, I don’t condone him and his gov’t, especially his reversion to feudal-esque rural agrarian policies (I’m more of a pro-industrialist myself, when it comes to productive forces)

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    I used to be apart of a subreddit on reddit logo , it seemed ‘‘progressive’’, users said they supported Palestine but then there was a post about voting for HariSS, I left reddit for good after that. F*cking clowns.

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      I got into the habit of kind of journaling in the general mega as a way to just share some of my thoughts and feelings on the things going on in my life. And over time there’s a few other frequent posters who’s posts I’ve been reading for a while.

      And as others have mentioned, the news mega is a good place to get news (lol) because all the other places I have access to news are mostly shit, whether they be mainstream or independent.

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      The news mega is why I had reactivated my hexbear account in the first place. The more active userbase means that you get near realtime information about various things.

      The other parts of the site, is fine sometimes, but it becomes very clear you are surrounded by Amerikans. Even if they are self-conscious about it.

      And another thing I never missed about Reddit or Twitter was the constant struggle sessions. Most of my political education comes offline now, and I intend to keep it that way.

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      I like the news mega the most because it helps me understand the world a bit better, there’s a lot of informative posts… but the world also sucks so I often start there, end up getting angry and upset at the news, and log off before I can interact with the rest of the site.

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      There’s 1,000-something comments in each one and I dunno how you keep track of anything like that. Not to mention, shit posting and reading shitposts already makes me feel a bit guilty since that time could have been spent reading theory.

      My face just turns into:

      o___o

      …when I see the megas.

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        I guess it just feels a bit like a chronological xitter feed, but way better. And it’s comfy to hang out in them and chat to people. I guess it’s more for downtime, if I was in reading theory mode I might be on news mega, but probably not on hb at all haha. I do venture outside the megas too, but they’re the first thing I usually check

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          Revolutionary Suicide by Huey Newton and vol. 1 of Kapital. Also have Naked Lunch by William S. Burrows and Sum by David Eagleman for fiction. Been skimming through Lies My Teacher Told Me on my phone (since I have a copy there).

          I should get in on the Will to Change group since it’s free and only like 100 pages.

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    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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      Funny how Cubans and Chinese either become victims of their circumstance or willing participants based on how acutely threatened westerners are.

      • Social credit -> Chinese are victims
      • Tik-Tok -> Chinese are the villains
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        Chinese immigrants in US who say “CccccPee is evil no food took away egg monopoly” gets whitey to reply “Wow what an evil regime I’m sure this person is a total expert on their home country and knows everything there is.”

        Chinese immigrants in US or China who say “Actually things aren’t bad in China. I’m only outside the country to study a subject our universities don’t have programs for or have a job traveling,” gets whitey to bust out the calipers “Wow you’re completely brainwashed and I’m going to compare you to hive insects while dismissing everything you say.”

        • What is this social purpose? Westerners want to believe that other places are worse off, exactly how Americans and Canadians perennially flatter themselves by attacking each others’ decaying health-care systems, or how a divorcee might fantasize that their ex-lover’s blooming love-life is secretly miserable. This kind of “crab mentality” is actually a sophisticated coping mechanism suitable for {a society{ in which no other course of action seems viable.

          People aren’t “falling” for atrocity propaganda; they’re eagerly seeking it out, like a soothing balm.

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    Hope you all have a good weekend. Im taking it slow this weeknd. Just gonna chill an try to sleep (insomnia due to head injury yay)

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    I’ve noticed that zionists something call Algeria an Apartheid state, I didn’t know why because they kept saying its name randomly from time to time to deflect apartheid accusations on the zionist entity, apparently it’s because they think being a Muslim to gain Algerian citizenship??? That’s not even remotely true

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    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.

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    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.

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      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.

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        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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    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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      I want my blerd men to HEAL so bad! I noticed alot of them also fell a bit into the look maxing era where they started working out and making themselves a certain type of attractive, but still hold the same hate and disdain from their childhood. Working out and updating looks are fine but leaving out the mental work makes it useless. HEAL BROTHAS, PLEASE!

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      They never got over getting curved by their own people in middle/high school and let that gouge in their mind become their whole personality as an adult. Can’t tell me that’s not a significant source of misleadership.

      EDIT: What still fucks with me sometimes is I absolutely fell down that rabbithole growing up. I was the lil brother whose poetry never rhymed or metered enough to fit a sixteen in middle school, never found my innate rhythm until I learned how to play bass in high school, gravitated more toward peeling computers layer by layer than going up for sports-- then I left my hometown and had to reckon with the fact when I’m not surrounded by as much whiteness as I was, I started flourishing. My pull magnified and expanded by leaps and bound when I left home; and all that aggrieved blerd shit stopped making sense.

      Like, I’m not even gonna go thru the whole ‘seek therapy’ canard; 'cause I got past it without. It just requires a few levels of self-awareness and awareness of the spaces you inhabit.

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        Can’t tell me that’s not a significant source of misleadership.

        For real! So many of the big “black excellence™℠®©” types really ooze with that sort of insecurity. Don’t get me wrong, I’m sure it truly did a number on them in your youth, especially back in the day. I don’t discount that, however I do think at a certain point (especially those with greater means) you continue to victimize yourself by not letting yourself move past that.