I hate how "don't talk about politics" because it just means white people can be soft racist without consequences
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I don't look XYZ and/or sometimes I can pass as white so I don't know if I can post here. Can I?
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the same right wingers who were making fun of George Floyd for 5 years straight, editing him into everything, downplaying his death, reenacting it, Suddenly find saying "it's ironic how Kirk died" to be the most offensive thing ever?
Apparently the man who thinks the civil rights act was a mistake, cheering ICE, supports israel apartheid...... is an advocate for freedom 
He was killed by a white man while using a tired old dogwhistle of "gang violence" to imply black on black violence. Its extremely ironic and extremely funny and they can go kick rocks if they don't like that.
I'm tired of white liberal Zionists saying they admire Malcolm X
I'm tired of white liberal Zionists saying they admire Malcolm X
I'm tired of white liberal Zionists saying they admire Malcolm X
I'm tired of white liberal Zionists saying they admire Malcolm X
How is this even a thing? I feel like it's just psychological warfare.
Pretty sure they've never heard Malcolm talk about Israel tho
Man shit suck some white boomers are getting on me for going to the park everyday waiting for the library to open. They haven't said anything directly to me because they cowards but I know it's only a matter of time before cops are involved. Chilling in a different place now until library opens, hate how unwelcomed I feel based on 
Fuck it not letting some dried up
stains from letting me enjoy the park I'm back and vibing
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All I'm saying is if a bunch of white people were being hanged from trees in 2025, it'll be considered an act of a serial killer and not ruled out as a suicide

Been wanting to ask this question and it came back to my mind with my comment about that white therapist I had: Does anybody else hate seeing/hearing white people be self-proclaimed anti-racists? Something gives me the ick about white people affirming this supposed "anti-racist" stance by labeling themselves vocally. I even see it on HB at times.
Just do what you need to do to show it because, honestly, there are so many white people who falsely believe themselves to be anti-racist that it can never be a good look to me when a white person says that they are.
it's like proclaiming that you don't eat people
Well, it's telling that someone claims to 'not' eat people, in society historically known for well - eating people - because its profitable extracting what's left of the Global South people's flesh.
What a Global North society...
🪱 my gf 🥺 she won't stop shit talking Castro 😩
whats she saying about him? he’s too hot so he must have been the devil?
I'm trying to figure this out...... If this is what fascism is to white folks wtf is what poc and the imperial periphery have been going through called?
something that happened 400 years ago and is part of the past
Poc are getting the brunt of the fascism in America, not white people. This is just white centricism
the "communist ml" side on tumblr complaining abt the phrase "the usa has always been fascist" because it isnt accurate to a precise analysis of fascism and that it "whitewashes liberal democracy" has made me realize that site is truly full of navel gazers who have never interacted with anyone irl, much more so with nonwhites.
like when has a person who says that the usa has always been fascist (an effective rhetorical tool mind you!) ever been a proponent of fucking liberal democracy. like jfc. how pedantic.
whenever a leftist ik admits they used or use tumblr/4chan/reddit regularly or used to identify with it I keep my eyes on them like they're going to turn into a horse or something

especially "leftists" spaces or boards there because they didn't have a "everything I believe in is wrong I have to rebuild what I know" self critic moment, people who held obvious reactionary beliefs such transphobia or racism then decide one day to become a communist have to either wipe out everything they believe in or exist in nazbol communities, because the moment you start talking some "tradwives" and "all lives matter" bullshit you're getting banned anywhere remotely on the left. They still carry the nonsense they held back then you just won't notice it because it isn't obvious or isn't in the topic, you talk to them for a while and they seem fine then boom they start having nostalgia about the Hamilton Musical and Obama, or if they're a redditor they start talking about Muslims, or if they were a /tttt/ or /leftypol/ user they use abbreviations and slurs no one knows.
a lot of these people, and in most communities dominated by westerners in general, is that they retain a lot of their chauvinism, especially the yanks. they would shout for the destruction of the settler state for israel while praising fucking new york city in the next post. the discontinuity between how they treat the two settler states is something i've repeated numerous times.
Leftypol is extremely reactionary. I'm also suspicious of anyone who uses it because they don't have rules like actual leftist spaces against bigotry and slurs.
I only browse 4chan for opposition research to understand and recognize dogwhistles. It's one of the reasons I no longer debate conservatives elsewhere because it's clear mainstream reactionaries have absorbed the Alt-Right into their platforms. This includes 4chan-style """trolling""" where they pretend like they were "just joking" if you call out their shitty beliefs.
The place was ground zero for online neo-nazis recruited by Steve Bannon outside of actual Stormfront.
they use abbreviations and slurs no one knows.
Exactly 💯%. They'll carry over their reactionary thinking and hope anyone won't notice.
At the risk of getting put on horse-watch, I'm going to strongly agree with you about 
or if they're a redditor they start talking about Muslims
I lurked on /r/atheism a long time ago while grappling with the fallout from my faith shattering, and what I concluded was that that crowd of "new atheists" were racist as hell. If I talked about not being muslim anymore because I wanted God to actually exercise power to make the world better, and since that doesn't happen I can't believe in anything supernatural anymore: Upvotes galore, sympathetic comments, people commiserating and trying to help me cope. If I said that bombing Muslims because you think their governments are too theocratic / autocratic is a horrible way to "liberate" anyone, and anyway people didn't need to be "liberated" by force, they just needed to be socially free to choose their beliefs and lifestyles (and, when free to choose, most people would remain Muslim because it's not actually bad to be religious, and you can be gay and trans and progressive and still be religious): Downvoted to hell and people dogpiling me and even citing the Quran out of context to tell me, someone raised in Islam, that I didn't know shit about it. If I pointed out that it's absolutely ridiculous for a mostly white mostly western userbase to talk so much shit about Islam at all when evangelical christianity is the thing that's actually threatening people's civil liberties: "terrorism", "migrants invading europe and making the crime rate skyrocket" (gee, why would a bunch of refugees suddenly show up? Did western foreign policy have anything to do with that?), and even worse things I don't want to retype out because it's so hateful.
The heel turn that Richard Dawkins took was not a surprise. That motherfucker ended up deciding he was a secular christian because he was so bothered by seeing Muslim women wearing clothes.
Redditors as a group seem to just hate Muslims because redditors are western chauvinists. That's the real reason they don't complain about
committing a livestreamed holocaust on our western goverenments' dime. They like seeing people being murdered, as long as they're the right religion.
Liberals saying RIP assata in one breath then the next praising Obama like he didn't double the bounty on her 
The libs don't read 😞
It's crucial to be materialist during these times. Losing 13 billion in soybean, car manufacturer plant stalled because deportation blowback, un finally saying its a genocide, all of these things are related and interdependent on each other. All else that's happening is facism thrashing for the only power they can control and capitalist hoarding wealth by budding up to power.
Fetishism on a Facebook post
White woman with the caption "POV: Black men just hit different... had me weak every time"
2.4k likes
275 comments
Couldn’t find a single one being critical of this dehumanizing behavior.
This is, once again, more insight into the problem of racial fetishism being an extremely socially acceptable form of racism.
This is more insight into the issue of people being racist so long as they can get away with it.
This is more insight into the tendency for people to reduce what counts as "racist" down to men in white hoods lynching dark-skinned people.
It also is a yet another instance of white nonsense that continues to validate my decision to never date out again.
Seeing anti immigrant British bump freddie mercury songs all the way up when he's queer and of indian descent show the power of the west to really subsume all into itself.
I have a feeling that telling them that about Freddie would put them under pressure.
I hate how my ability to care about the struggles of white people seems to be diminishing a lot, even if they're legitimate struggles.
For example, seeing white queer people complain about queerphobic legislation just doesn't bother me anymore, even though I'd be impacted by that very legislation.
The legislation does concern me, yes, but the white complaints about it? I don't care what they have to say because I can't get over how common it is for white people to only care about injustice insofar as it goes after them personally.
These same white queer people would never give a damn about anything pertaining to systemic racism, and if they posted some tweet saying they did, it'd just be performative bullshit.
Grieving is ass. I hate having to hold myself together because my parent doesn't want to think about it or talk about it but I know it's eating them up and it'll be better to just let it out. Hopefully they'll let out some grief when I go back home, I know I will.
Only 2 whites in the Senate voted against lionising this Kirk guy. Once again 
R.I.P. Assata Shakur 💕
Recorded deaths of civil rights participants (BPP, MLK, X)!by state violence ~70 Deaths by gang violence 2024 ~1800
If only every blood, crip & gd in America was a revolutionary socialist fighting for the people..
how to get white people to be against anything? attach a picture of a black man or an immigrant doing it
The transcription interview went very well. It was also with a Black woman.
I now have to do one more assessment, and once I get graded on it, I'll be able to start the job soon!
Seeing as how transcription is something I'm adept at, I'm confident! I got a week to complete this assessment but plan on completing it either tonight or tomorrow.
Regarding pay, she said that this could be a full-time job for me, as they are the largest legal transcription service for the US, and she used a calculator that considers both my typing speed and hours I want to work and calculates an expected rate.
Based on her calculations, she says I should expect to make 18 to 20 USD an hour as a conservative estimate. Nice.
I hope this goes well.
Fingers crossed!
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I think a lot of my anxiety comes about from being colored in public, it's that family guy skin tone meme where if you too dark it's loitering. Anyway fuck
and fuck 
I will say things that will end up being fedposting so I'll just keep quiet 
This is why there's no crime that's too old to remember, there's not "it was so long ago you have to move on", because when they [the colonizers] step on you, they won't rest until you apologize for hurting their foot, they won't rest until they stomp you out.
song by red bone that was banned by radio stations
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d-exUl-TnQ0
I expect cannibalism to return as a mainstream racist rhetoric in the next 10 years
cringiest urb✱n d✱ction✱ry definition i've ever seen
cw: white boy victim complex
Gonna go on a rant about bad therapy time, I'm just going to cw since even I feel content warned thinking of it
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Been having a rough couple of weeks, worthy of a telenovella, super sick relatives that may die, terrible time at work getting sexually harassed, and existential dread. Add to all that shit my theorycasting of trauma dumping on a brand new therapist out of the gate was a complete disaster, ofc in this area what could I fucking expect, white chud dismisses not only bigotry I experience, also a damn hate crime I experienced the reason I'm going in, my terrible burnout, but also belittles me as the public typically does retail workers, if he didn't read my file, and tbh he probably didn't its a medicaid clinic ffs, but this is almost as bad as the therapist I had that started ranting on me about some random other client that didn't care for her child and called me the wrong name while scolding me, lol. I should have stopped her, but I was morbidly curious, and in this case I sort of wonder how bad he's going to continue fucking up, I'm already about 70pct offended, son that takes WORK. To a large degree I realize in Gringolandia I'm basically a lime colored teapot unicorn, poor fuck has never seen something like me, nor ever will again, so he utterly lacks the framework, and in such a therapeutic environment you're just going to standardize all the patients, RIP me the shiny outlier. I don't want to exactly burn bridges and call him out, but I'm not going to be able to take an ultra patronizing 6th grade tier biology of anxiety lecture without losing my last shred of patience with all the shit going down. I can't exactly ditch neither for reasons, at least not right away.
When its shit like this it becomes to harder to realize how much is me trying to process trauma when I'm still in actively being traumatized survival mode vs an actual new offense. I also have that to consider. I hate having to backseat therapy like this, why couldn't I have gone to gradschool and all that work out? Lol, at least I will never harm someone with my knowledge but myself I suppose.
Also I want to say fuck, talk therapy 50% bourgeois cishet white nonsense other 50% metaphysics! Grrr.
Ghana has to borrow from IMF to buy its own gold because its gold its mostly owned by foreign powers. This is normal
hope you all have a good next week