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We like to have fun here.
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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?
This place is for ethnic minorities and people of color. This includes those of mixed heritage and those who may be "white" but are of an ethnicity that is a minority in their area (i.e. Kurds, etc) If you've experienced oppression due to your identity that is not based on sexual / gender identification, you are welcome here.
Moreover, for our American audience, we have people from around the world who are "white" but are oppressed due to being a minority in their country. They are and should be welcomed here.
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Juneteenth is a U.S. holiday commemorating black emanicipation and power that originates from Galveston, Texas, where, on this day in 1865, Union General Gordon Granger proclaimed all slaves in Texas, more than 250,000 people, to be free.
Juneteenth is the oldest nationally celebrated commemoration of slave abolition in the United States.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Juneteenth
I hope you nerds have a good month of June 
Remember no crackers
The absurdity of liberals thinking its good or funny that "Pride world cup" is happening at the match between Iran and Egypt...
Beyond the fact that FIFA is a genocidal organization that is fully complicit in the extermination of Palestinians in Gaza, one has to ask an important question:
What does this accomplish?
Besides being a clear antagonism against Iranian team which has already been harrassed, delayed, and deprived of long term visas.
It is basically just a yankee "in your face" moment that reinforces the beliefs of regular people who equivocate LGBT with US imperialism. This kind of crap only makes everything worse. I'm sure this belicose "world cup pride" parade will only result in more hostility.
These liberals don't give a damn about queer Muslims or Arabs or Iranians. Same logic of "liberating oppressed women" with cruise missiles.
Queer people in Egypt and Iran after a a bunch western chauvinists in America start pulling some pro imperialist bullshit in a sports game: wow I am free now, thank you white people.
Egypt being a tyrannical dictatorship where everyone is repressed because the government is completely subservient to US-israel. This is 60 years after they destroyed the possibility of a socialist pro-people government
and all liberals have to say is calling Egyptians homophobic.
Pain
Could have turned out like this instead of todays sykes picot 2.0
The U.S. government can right now call Sisi in his own palace and tell him "Legalize gay marriage and make hrt available in kushks" and he'll do it like the good boy he is, same with all the other colonies
Meanwhile, thousands of Egyptians who demanded that he open the Rafah crossing into Gaza are still rotting in his torture dungeons.
I think the racism towards indians was built up to make westerners not care about the deaths from global warming there.
Maybe. But the way I see it, it acts more as a tool for social control... a way to keep Indians in "their place" across the US and Canada
I watch slightly leftist youtube videos and the recommendations on the side are always far-right bullshit, what the fuck (logged out btw)
"European minorities tier list" with a very racist thumbnail, and a video about Wolfenstein being anti-white
"European minorities tier list" with a very racist thumbnail, and a video about Wolfenstein being anti-white
Ofc typical Euro brain on that. On Wolfenstein, hahah, 
live rent-free in that arsehole since the concept of Wolfenstein was created
The onboarding for this job is today... I sincerely hope it goes well. Please wish me luck! 🤞🏿🤞🏿🤞🏿
Weird encounter today.
We had a spot reserved at the game club and this one asshat decided to book the same space at the same time, make an announcement, and just showed up without checking if the space was available. Whatever, no biggie since our group was small and all of us are vaxxed so we can share the space. Was just kinda rude of this guy to make promises to other people then just assume he could waltz in.
Anywho, we're all doing our thing and chatting and AK Interactive comes up. It gets mentioned none of the shops in our area carry their products because of tariffs. But then asshat says "Yeah that and they made the internet mad over nothing, just SJWs being terminally online."
"Wait wait wait....that AK Interactive?" I am now remembering. "The one with the concentration camp diorama kit?"
For those of you who don't know, AK specializes in historical modeling kits. Example: if you want Napoleon's army's uniform color, they have a paint that matches those specifically. A few years ago, they launched a WWII German line of products. And they thought, in addition to tank and soldier models, it'd be a good idea to release a concentration camp diorama. No, the proceeds were not going to any Holocaust memorials or museums. They were catering to neo-nazis so they could live out their fantasies with toys.
"Yeah no, that was a pretty serious fuckup. Thanks for reminding us to not buy their products." Asshat changes the subject to music. He's going to a punk rock show later and decided he'd dress in a suit for the occasion.
"I like the music, but my only problem is the space is infested with leftists nowadays."
We give this guy deathglares. Motherfucker, you're in a leftist gaming club right now. It was already suspect with the way you were arguing for "historically accurate concentration camps." One of my buddies with more patience than myself pipes up "Let's let him explain. We don't have to jump down his throat, maybe we can use this as a learning moment."
"Gommunism is when the government does stuff, and the more stuff it does, the more gommunist it is. This is why I'm a libertarian, because I don't think people should tell others what to do. I don't like democrats or republicans."
Wow holy shit, I thought these guys all became mask-off Trump supporting fascists in 2016. I guess not because we have a live libertaryan with us right now. At this point, asshat is visibly flustered as he starts to realize he's alone in a room without a camera surrounded by honest-to-God Marxists and anarchists. He changes the subject again (despite being the one who kept bringing up politics), wraps up his game with two other people, and leaves "I have to go pick up my girlfriend."
The kicker? This dude is darker and browner than I am. Like the only reason he didn't get the shit beaten out of him is because he's obviously a very confused libshit whose class interests have made him right wing (he's obviously some kind of techbro crypto grifter or whatever the fuck because he mentions he has a job in a nearby tech town).
I'm just screaming in my head "Why do you think pandering to white people will save you? You're at more of a risk of getting stopped by ICE on the way here than myself and I'm fucking terrified of getting stopped by ICE anytime I step outside."
He didn't mention his ethnicity but be shur as shit wasn't white or white passing. Like how did he arrive at Ron Paul libertarianism? Did he not see the part about the newsletters or wanting to repeal the Civil Rights Act?
I doubt we'll see him again.
I only know as much as you on that
Happy Juneteenth! May all slavers face the Haitian solution 
Literally made Louverture my lock screen long ago
damn based juneteenth wallpaper? i need to get my game up
Hell yeah! 
insomniac thought of the night:
I don't think I've ever felt anything but despair in decades living in the middle east but the US dying and Israeli society being torn apart is a glimmer of hope. The next decade will flip the world on its head I guess, we just need to survive until then.
Stay safe comrade, a better world is possible and we are working towards it for us and our children and grandchildren
"Did you know that [third world country] is reactionary and racist? how could they!" and you look at the history and see 37 socialist leaders couped by U.S. backed terrorist groups, 56 progressive parties that got destroyed by the democratic government, a massive propaganda campaign that lasted from 1912 until today, 12000 Evangelical churches and 1300 Saudi backed madrassas.
i hate when i'm complaining about something and a white person gives me unsolicited advice. go put some cream on so the sun doesn't eat you
describing a very cringy cracka
I encountered this transmasc person online, and they were really interested in gettting to know me.
At first, I thought they were simply a cool friendly person, but shit went downhill with them really fast the more I learned about them.
I went on their Instagram account and I checked their reposts. Their reposts are virtually always content from Black creators that either talk about Black issues directly or content that centers Black people in some way, shape, or form. I went through their stories, and I decided to test something. They had 8 stories posted at the time I did this, so I said to myself, "Let me count how many of them center Black people." Guess what? All 8 of them. ALL FUCKING 8 OF THEM.
I couldn't. There was no reason for me to keep contact with this person. The first 2 things I mentioned were bad enough, but the fetishization of Blackness is something I'm especially uneasy about from a real personal perspective. That shit doesn't fly with me. I'm not trying to be viewed as a deity, especially not by some Ukrainian lib.
joining in
I wonder what they think of trans fetishization, if they fetishize themselves too or if they're in a hypocrite state, I wonder how they think of black revolutionaries and black communists, what do they think about the fetishization of eastern europeans post soviet collapse. There is a thousand questions going on inside my head about this person.
spoiler
Regarding the point about the Black communists, such is an exact thought I had. Like, they seem so willing to glorify Black people while also being vehemently opposed to the theory and tactics that many revolutionary and decolonial Black tendencies committed themselves to for the sake of liberation. It makes the fetishization especially ring out as more superficial than it already looks.
Got this interview today... gonna give it 100000%. Wish me luck
I seriously hope some people help with the rent today. I'm overall stressed. We'll see.
My heart breaks for Venezuela. Does anybody know of ways someone outside can help out, even small ways? Fuck gusanos celebrating this and blaming "gommunism!!1!" Ya Allah strike them down.
You often gotta ask yourself if there is even just one Western white leftist who is demonstrably a wholehearted anti-imperialist.
Interview went really fucking well. The interviewer was visibly impressed by a lot of what I said, and I seem incredibly compatible with them. Typically, I'd have little to no expectations for an interview, but because I actually have a referral for this one, I actually don't think my chances are too off here. Apparently, I'm going to get an answer sometime next week most likely. The interviewer told me that they'd typically expect to supply an answer by the end of the work week, but because Friday is the day AmeriKKKans commemorate the founding of their genocidal, exploitative, settler-colonial entity, I won't hear back by then.
I hate that so many immigrants in the US hate on Mexican people like it's a rite of passage to live here. I cut someone off for it. It was a long time ago. I think about it everyday and I no longer regret setting that boundary.
I have one life, and if the option to not spend it with someone extremely racist appears, I aim to take it.
GraHHam Platner shit, SA, imperialism, war crimes
"Democrats begin pulling Platner endorsements after Maine candidate faces sexual assault allegation"
Sure, whatever it takes to tank this war criminal's campaign. But it is not lost upon me that it took him allegedly SAing a white woman to finally be recognized as a monster by many of his supporters. His bloodthirsty fantasies about slaughtering poc in. imperialist and colonialist wars of aggression weren't enough. His record of enthusiastic participation in both the official armed forces and then later mercenary groups, both of which are famous for war crimes on top of already fighting on the wrong side of unjust (and, incidentally, illegal) wars wasn't enough. His Nazi tattoo wasn't enough.
This says a lot about the priorities of his supporters and whom they consider human enough to care about.
Race trumps everything. Whites will always be loyal to their white interests no matter what. As long as they get the benefits it gives them they will always throw us under the bus.
I'm seeing some of the World Cup videos going around - and I really do love seeing people from other countries welcomed and having a good time. Truly. And for the most part others are enjoying the simple beauty and joy of human interactions. But then there is a contigent of "SEE! America is the greatest country in the world - you are just too ungrateful to realize it"
When I complain about the U.S I don't mean that we don't have very large gas stations or bacon with breakfast. The Americans I interact with are genuinely nice, interesting and dynamic people who I want to be around and this is a fun country (used to be more so but still). All of that is fine. I mean that our government has (among other things) gone on a multi-decade killing spree all over the world to take out thousands leftist leaders, union organizers or just good people who want to help their community. That we funded death squads who did serial killer shit to civilians because they never won actual battles with leftist guerillas. That our culture is so hateful that certain people would rather have less of everything than to see some non white people possibly have more than them.
Whatever joy is coming out of the world is cup is 100 percent despite their best efforts to make us all miserable.
I am angry precisley because I do love Americans and I believe that we have potential. The celebrations are happening in the cities where more people share our politics or at least have the potential to be empathetic, curious and joyful. The right is trying to co opt this energy - as they always do but the moment is against them. Lets make the most of it.
Americans are the worst world cup host just for what they have done to the Iranian team
Been dodging so much online content about Karmelo Anthony because I know for a damn fact that I will see some nasty shit about Black people in comments and whatnot if I do.
Happy death to the USA day.
Happy Juneteenth!
Chattel slavery was so clearly evil yet so many white people still act like their faves were only mildly problematic for "having slaves" (torturing generations of people for their whole lives)
Also: first comment!
The future of Latin America seems so grim, never will I forgive or forget what these pigs have done. A return to the guerrilla warfare and revolutions of the last century might be the only way out, Cuba for personal reasons is in my heart more than ever before.
I personally don't feel comfortable with how queer people in the west take cowboys as a gay icon. Cowboys are a symbol of genocide, settler colonialism and white supremacy, why do you want anything to do with them.
We need to find a way to discuss racism and how it has historically undermined class solidarity without immediately triggering defensiveness in white people. They just stop listening and start accusing people of having a victim complex, so the conversation goes nowhere. The implication of that filibustering is that we need to meet them where they are if we want to be involved with leftist politics.
On the other hand, this issue is used cynically to marginalize us by identifying our politics as something inherently racist. It is always bad-faith actors who make this claim, but it is more effective than it would be if we could actually face these issues head-on.
Need a real strategy for that. I am going to read some old literature because smarter, more involved people than I have covered this ground. Any suggestions would be welcome.
Nothing I have ever tried has worked. A lot of white people have good intentions (or at least think they do) . They know that being racist is bad but have very little understanding or curiosity about the mechanisms, biases, and beliefs that ensure its propagation. Very similar to how men don't see how other men act towards women because it is often hidden from many of us until we date women and experience it firsthand. So when a video comes out of some despicable behavior, men think it is just one bad actor and not indicative of a system of oppression. Thus, we do not need to do anything - simply point out bad actions when they occur and pretend that no pattern exists.
I don't have any idea how to get through these defense mechanisms. Nothing I have tried has worked except just pretending that the left has cured racism with class politics, but that is neither true, productive or satisfying.
lol crackers talking about anyone else having a “victim complex” when they literally can’t go a single day without finding ways to pretend to be oppressed. fucking trust fund frat bros saying it’s the holocaust all over again because they saw a Palestinian flag