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  • Lussy [he/him, des/pair]@hexbear.net
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    6 months ago

    Holy shit, what the fuck causes white boomer women to think I, a 30 something brown man, would be interested them?

    These are the vibes I’m getting at work and it’s extremely disturbing.

  • anarchoilluminati [comrade/them]@hexbear.net
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    6 months ago

    I was talking to my dad today sharing some good and very important family news.

    Dad: I’m just a little sad right now, my friend was killed yesterday.

    Me: Oh my God! What happened? Which friend?

    D: My friend Charlie.

    M: Charlie? Who’s Charlie?

    D: Charlie Kirk.

    M: PFFFFFFT LOL

    Apparently we all lost a really intelligent man who just wanted to help other people. And he was not talking about the killer.

  • Wmill [they/them, fae/faer]@hexbear.net
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    7 months ago

    Now I’m thinking about environmental racism, the capitalist class truly love shitting where they don’t eat. Fuck factory farming, fuck oil pipelines and fuck AI data centers. There are more things to list but I’m hungry rn. Guess it’s colonialism all the way down same like with the police.

      • Wmill [they/them, fae/faer]@hexbear.net
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        7 months ago

        it’s the “our industrial revolution was cool and good but theirs is unnecessary” shit turning around like they actually care instead of an attempt to knee cap other countries to preserve their power.

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      To add to this: if you think about where most oil refinement facilities are located as well as other environmentally harmful industries (think chemical processing, industrial farming, etc) in the US and Canada, the people who are almost always disproportionately affected are black and brown people.

      I was thinking about this because there was recently a story of how some white suburbanites are upset because a storage battery facility was going to be put in the neighborhood. And I started thinking about how much attention the story would have gotten if it had been a predominantly black/brown neighborhood.

      Shit fucking sucks.

  • Wmill [they/them, fae/faer]@hexbear.net
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    7 months ago

    Bringing up racism in white people’s favorite escapism fantasy settings always leaves them reeling especially if they feel themselves as progressive in some manner. The headspace I get from them is “I’m not doing a racism myself just letting it slide from friends/family/strangers whenever it comes up, how am I the bad guy?” They more confrontational at being called racist than they feel like confronting the racist culture around them.

  • daofaorao [none/use name]@hexbear.net
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    7 months ago

    i dont think ill ever get into superhero media in a way a lot of people are. its like greek mythology/percy jackson-esque fandoms. theres just very little for me to identify with. the exceptionalism of it all. yes im sure its easy to be a “good person” when you literally cant lose because youre that much better than anyone else. pretty much no stakes either because of that. its just masturbatory.

    read something like journey to the west or watch the 1986 show instead.

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        7 months ago

        thats the thing, dragon ball shares a lot of elements with superheroes yes, but it was first heavily inspired by journey to the west first and foremost. goku is exceptional but not in the ways thats totally inherent to his birthright. among the saiyans he was a destined low class warrior. half of the time he’s sparring with forces matching him or even beyond him. most of the time the struggle against antagonists in each arc is a group effort that doesnt necessarily rely solely on his individual role.

        its these elements that i think is how goku managed to resonate with so much with people in the global south. it aint just a meme

  • homhom9000 [she/her]@hexbear.net
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    6 months ago

    My non-white coworker, who takes public transit, is very shaken up about what happened in NC. I know it’s not technically racial but also I know it is.

    A whitey just shot up 20 children not even a month ago. Random violence is as amerikan as apple pie but whiteys wanna act like only Black people are violent.

  • Wmill [they/them, fae/faer]@hexbear.net
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    7 months ago

    I remember this episode of static shock where Virgil’s dad was dating a cop acab-3 and like Virgil runs away from the cops when they were gonna go through his backpack. The show goes out of its way of justifying from the cops perspective because they really really need to find something super duper important 🥺 nvm 4th amendment protections.

    I know it’s still cape shit but in the first season I quite liked it because of it’s themes of community and understanding. The show got bigger and eventually folded into the DC universe but that wasn’t why I was there to begin with.

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      7 months ago

      I remember watching a little bit of that show when I was a kid. I don’t remember if it stopped airing on local networks or something because I think I only ever got to see about 4 episodes.

  • Angel [any]@hexbear.net
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    7 months ago

    I’m at a point where I functionally can no longer see myself in a relationship with a non-Black person again. I’ve been thinking a lot on this subject, and my mind has been kind of uncertain these past few months or so.

    What I ultimately came to realize is that, in the context of how I view love, there will be always be something critically lacking in any relationship I’d have with a non-Black person.

    At first, the thought of continuing to accept non-Black partners seemed possibly within my reach so long as they truly were based, were radical, and understood how to fight against anti-Blackness, and as great as some non-Black people are in these regards, I’m now at a point where the thought of dating any non-Black person feels as right as the thought of dating a conservative.

    Of course, that’s not me saying it’s as bad—hell no. My point is that it just indescribably feels “off” in a way that no amount of other things we have in common can reconcile. Very much needed solidarity will always be missing.

    Ideally, I want a partner who has a lot of things in common with me (the aforementioned 5 traits I’ve brought up several times). However, to keep my pool somewhat open, I’m going to base my search for a partner (when I’m ready—not a priority at the moment) off of these three things: Blackness, queerness, and veganism.

    I’ll go from there, but what I can certainly say now is that I will never entertain romantic and/or intimate encounters with non-Black people ever again.

    • MizuTama [he/him, any]@hexbear.net
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      I’m at a point where I functionally can no longer see myself in a relationship with a non-Black person again. I’ve been thinking a lot on this subject, and my mind has been kind of uncertain these past few months or so.

      I landed in a different position, but I think this is something a lot of Black people have to reckon with internally at some point, and I’m glad you found your answer!

      meow-hug

  • Wmill [they/them, fae/faer]@hexbear.net
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    7 months ago

    Police watch me sometimes when I’m at the park, they haven’t harassed me or anything and I’m usually too zoned out reading/writing/listening to music most of the time. I do think they are getting annoyed with me being so boring, idk having to preform and like this is eh. I’m used to by now always being put under a microscope, like it doesn’t help my anxiety most of the time but sometimes I just wanna be invisible.

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    6 months ago

    Still a little iffy here since all the stuff went down about burning the flag, but talking to other POC eases my anxiety.

    Talked with some coworkers, we’re all various kinds of POC that’s been in the headlines lately, and it’s been so relaxing. We all fundamentally understand racism because we experience it. The big difference is some other POC are feeling it from the state now while Black folk been feeling it since we were brought here. Regardless, we’re able to agree that we feel it and it’s all connected and we have solidarity with each others over it and that’s enough to keep me going.

    Just also wish my coworkers didn’t have the liberal slant but one thing at a time.

    • Angel [any]@hexbear.net
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      Same!

      This exemplifies why I always say “I’m Black before anything else.”

      In my opinion (might be a hot take depending on who you ask), I seriously will not hesitate to say that well-meaning Black liberals are easier for me to get along with than a whole lot of white Marxists.

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          Whenever something egregious happens to my race, I feel it in my bones, even when reading about things in the past, I feel it deeply. I know other races feel it too. You can’t learn that

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        Hard agree. Because Black folk know what it’s about, even if they believe in liberalism or Obama, they know what this country thinks about us and how this country treats us. My elders were the “pull up your pants” type of Black folk but still taught me the pride in being Black and the horror jim crow. I trust them and their judgment

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          6 months ago

          Something I can say is that even a Black conservative, as much as they may dislike my queerness and politics, differs greatly from many white leftists in the fact that they still acknowledge that I am human.