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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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[-] Juice@hexbear.net 4 points 2 years ago

One of Paulo Friere's theses is that to the oppressor, moves toward equality feel like oppression.

While it is always good to be ruthlessly critical of everything, rather than just merely being "white people making it about them," or self-hating whiteness (a reactionary trope in virtually every other context) or even just toxic and cringe, when you have a large group of whites saying, "yes I deserve it, violently oppress me based on my skin color," assuming it isn't some awful kink, it really could be an authentic way for white people to say that we truly desire equality.

[-] DayOfDoom@hexbear.net 3 points 2 years ago

I would 99% agree but a tiny little retort about how liberals kinda' use this to just degrade white working class living standards down rather than raise everyone else up. More specifically thinking about referring to not being (frequently) carded and searched and assaulted and murdered by police as a "privilege".

[-] Juice@hexbear.net 2 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

I agree 100%, and I make this little dialectical formulation wrt the specific circumstance of white HBs posting about how they should be genocided.

But yeah when workers are united, race is used to divide them, and once they're divided by race whites get exploited well beyond what anyone would consider privilege. Using the privilege formulation, I used to think about privilege being something thrust upon whites, where privilege becomes a sort of "not-oppressed" status. But I've become aware of WEB DuBois's formulation of a "white wage" that is paid to white workers, and while I haven't yet read Black Reconstruction I have begun to think of it in those terms.

Take my statement above as something more like optimism than hard critique last-bit-of-hope

[-] Lemmygradwontallowme@hexbear.net 4 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Poor ye kkkrakkkas et les peaux-semen...

It's about character, not race, like MLK Jr. said... just don't do any reactionary wacky-west shit to my ass that you were indoctrinated with... and all's fine...

[-] FactuallyUnscrupulou@hexbear.net 4 points 2 years ago

No, I am half Irish and half German descent. I spent my first 32 years in Minnesota and I plan to spend 32 years in New York in which I will perish. My headstone will read, 'Here lies @FactuallyUnscrupulou@hexbear.net, an Irish German Minnesotan New Yorker.' If you call me white you will be haunted by a poltergeist that smells like stale cigarettes and rumplemintz.

[-] QueerCommie@hexbear.net 3 points 2 years ago

amerikkka-clap you have no idea how much this means

[-] sooper_dooper_roofer@hexbear.net 2 points 2 years ago

We need to stand against hate, and frankly racism is divisive. I also stand with my white comrades, and to combat the rise in anti-white hatred, I will psychically transmit messages of positivity their way. I have high visuospatial prowess, and remote sensing intuition, so I will envision large bowls of ranch dip, sweet pineapple "chutney", and Friends reruns--it was indeed a copy of Living Single, but it had a charm all its own.

And lest you call this mental exercise lazy, I will also get real "vanilla" with it in my physical life. In honor of this ordeal, I will be wearing my shoes inside all day tomorrow--yes even on my bed.
My relationship with my parents is normally great, but I can afford to yell at them for not allowing me to go to that rock concert when I was 18--not that I ever wanted to go, or that they ever explicitly disallowed me, but it's the principle that counts.
I could also go for my La Mian noodles slathered in a bit of mayonnaise. I find that it gives it a very gloppy, greaselike texture (in a good way of course!) It really is a vibrant culture!