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Shoutout to all the white people on the site. All the hate you have received is being countered in exact&equal opposite by the mass of love I'm sending you via these words and DMs once I work up the.. (hexbear.net)

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... courage and time to do so.

Thanks for being a communist. putin-wink

Sending you all Valentines in 2 weeks.

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[-] RedQuestionAsker2@hexbear.net 90 points 8 months ago

A note to folks in this thread:

It's good to challenge white supremacy in all of its incarnations at all time. It's certainly good to refuse to be proud to be white considering what the concept of whiteness is.

It's another thing to performatively hate yourself in a cocktail of millennial self-deprecation and liberal white guilt. It's not revolutionary, and it's probably not good for you.

[-] TheDialectic@hexbear.net 4 points 8 months ago

It's terrible because if I wanted to be something other than white all the things I might have felt any associated with are claimed by white supremacy. Like, damn. Which is worse being proud white or proud of you british ancestry?

[-] Mardoniush@hexbear.net 11 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

That's not entirely true. There's a lot of folk and other culture that's solidly left wing and associated with the working classes. It's just mostly more english/welsh/cornish/scottish than british specifically.

Even then if you want to enjoy 19th century sea shanties it's fine, there are people to be proud of if you look, like the Reaver (anti slavery) squadron.

[-] autismdragon@hexbear.net 2 points 8 months ago

look, like the Reaver (anti slavery) squadron.

Cant find anything about this on Google. Just fictional stuff like Star Wars and Warhammer. Can you drop a link or something?

[-] Mardoniush@hexbear.net 4 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/West_Africa_Squadron

They weren't particularly effective and they didn't get anywhere near enough support, but they were enthusiastic and the Kru People were also major participants, as were many released or escaped slaves. It just makes me feel good, thinking about Master and Commander, but they're hunting down slavers and not French Revolutionaries.