Ethnic Minorities and People of Color

White trans people in a nutshell

I love how you just know a white queer got mad they got called out for being racist with the og meme and had to make up a random black person to be mad about lmao always white before anything else

Since Ziohran dropped his “I lied UwU” video, he’s vowed to arrest Hamas leaders, AYE-COOOOOOOOONDEMN-ed 10/7 (again), and publicly mourned the death of a child-killing war criminal

I’ve noticed that it’s been all quiet on the Copdani front on HB recently. I guess we’re at the “umm why do you care so much about him?” stage of sophistry.

Can’t wait for all the crackers on here to fall head over heels for the next AOC clone!

Annnnnd another thread about "antisemitism" with loads of comments not passing the vibe check

Ugh

Man fuck Spain, I don't give a shit about them, they're a NATO member, they harass POC, They're racist Europeans with a rich history of colonialism and they did a few massacres against immigrants not even a few years ago, this whole thing is happening because they're organized with another country to hold off immigrants, and because they're still holding on to their colonial outposts in Ceuta and Melila. Oh they did X or Y about Palestine? unless they're firing missiles at the zionist entity fuck them, Oh you rich European crakkker mad that the colonial outpost you built to hold Africans off suddenly "got used against you"? those same countries you robbed and plundered for hundreds of years? those same ones you still keep under a neo colonial grip to force them into that same poverty that makes them want to get out? I'm not as mad about the usual anti-immigrant racists this time, I'm mad about the so called "Pro-Palestine" and "leftists" saying how this is used against Spain because it was pro-Palestine, I a human being from the global south is not a weapon, my immigration due to historic, economic and climactic reasons isn't a weapon, continue saying this shit and you'll forget that a neo-nazi is holding your hand.

Shit did we have another "antisemetism" struggle sesh while I was gone? What a shitshow, they never learn. I see using this site way less than I used to was the right choice, still not gonna leave y'all fellow poc comrades tho, you make it worth it

Shakur successfully sought political asylum in Cuba, where she still lives today.

fam, she died last year

weather so hot today I almost fainted, I never even got close to fainting from sun heat in my life.

Palestine is getting treated in a weird way by people, instead of a cause for a people's liberation, it has become a virtue symbol, instead of things being done to help Palestine being free, talking about who football player, who mayor of what, who singer who actor, who held the flag of Palestine and who did not, I guess in this dark time they may feel like they're able to do nothing, and that the few things the capitalists allow them to have, the few spread around treats have the blood of palestinian children wiped from them.

do you ever watch western entertainment media and see yourself in its villains? i actually kinda like it

I got hired by this place, and my training with them starts on Monday. It's also remote, so hopefully, nothing weird about "load tests" steps into the room. I don't think it will. I already completed my onboarding with them, and the training will last a month. It is a full-time position and actually long-term. I love that I don't have to leave my home to do the work, so it sounds like a win.

However, I got some anxiety when I read these policies on having a "professional appearance" for video conferences:

• Hair must be clean and well-groomed in a reasonable style.
• No hats or head-coverings that impede a clear view of your face. Scarves and hair-wraps are fine so long as they do not violate another policy (obscene patterns, etc.)

Because I have freeform dreadlocks, I probably don't fit this "well-groomed" or "reasonable style" description they're talking about. After reading this, I actually decided to wear a (solid black) Rastacap during the interview, and they took no issue with it, so I take it that the Rastacap is not invalidated by the second bullet point there. I guess one could call it a "hair-wrap." Regardless, it is such a goofy, performative, and LARPy thing for them to have these stringent guidelines on one's appearance in video calls for a job where you're not actually even seeing customers, just talking to them on the phone.

Either way, if they do try to go after me for either the Rastacap or the freeform dreadlocks, that can be a violation of anti-discrimination laws, I'm sure. Though I'm not actually a Rasta, I thought it might be in my favor to cap (pun definitely intended) and tell them that I am so they get off my ass for the sake of avoiding religious discrimination. I don't think it will actually get to that point, though.

In addition to this, I am looking into narrating audiobooks as a side hustle of sorts. Unfortunately, because of AI, I wonder how long this will even be an option. Either way, I'm gonna navigate finding some side hustle.

So I was able to get my HRT (and other meds) totally covered this time around. Thank fuck! It's been raining a shitload so they said they were willing to deliver it for me.

I've been connecting very well with a wonderful queer Black leftist.

Something about her... I don't know what it is, but something about her is making me catch feelings quick.

I gotta be careful. I'm really passionate and prone to being a "simp," but I've been better at regulating these tendencies lately.

Things are going well. I'm just gonna continue talking with her and seeing where things go. My main focus is just handling this job, which I'm hella nervous about, but I know that, with time, it'll stop giving me so much anxiety. After I get my first paycheck, I'm gonna purchase a decent but not overly expensive USB mic and audition for doing audiobooks as a side hustle.

This Black woman I was crushing on is now saying the whole "Black Americans are Indigenous to the Americas" shit now.

Yeah, never mind, I think I'm done here.

FFS, the org that typically covers my HRT is changing their policies. I used to be able to get it completely free but that might not be the case. I emailed them, as they say they're willing to make "special exceptions" sometimes. Wish me luck.

This wasn't the first time something liked this happened... it was totally free for me at one point, and then they changed that. And then it became free again. And now they're changing it again. So suddenly, too.

Saw this happen way too many times, Also applies to friend groups and families

First work week over :)

Every. Fucking. Time.

Today I was talking to a trans woman and quickly realized she's still aiming for white supremacy... it honestly felt like a cold wind hitting me when she talked. She was complaining about why people won't just leave her alone, completely ignoring that she's playing for the side that literally hates her

Like don't you know you're trans? Don't you know you're from the Global South and getting exploited? You're trying to be just like your oppressors, hoping they'll accept you while they push everyone else down the hierarchy. It's such a disgrace. I hate feeling like this. I hate feeling so alone and I hate being able to see right through her facade

I don’t debate people Hamas would have shot

Damn I wonder when all the (cracker) Copdani stans here will have to say about him admitting he can’t arrest Netanyahu. I wonder how they will reconcile this with their previous drooling over this major campaign promise. Oh wow, more “he never said that” gaslighting and lying. What a surprise!

Also, won’t do anything about the illegal land sales but is happy to create speech restriction zones around where they’re being conducted and sicc the cops on protestors.

Actions speak louder than words

Can’t wait for the next wave of “ummmm why do you care so much about the NYC mayor sweaty????” since they have no actual counterargument

They delight in acting in bad faith, since they seek not to persuade by sound argument but to intimidate and disconcert. If you press them too closely, they will abruptly fall silent, loftily indicating by some phrase that the time for argument is past.

white ameriKKKan weSStern european nato stan zio neoliberal queer furry bumper stickers all over a car, looks like ass. might not be easy on the eyes!

Y'know, I found this post and everyone in the comments is making jokes about how this looks like juxtaposition, saying corny shit like, "OMG! I can't even tell what side bro is on! Isn't that outrageous?! 😭😭😭"

But, to anyone with a modicum of political awareness, based off of how I've observed it, unless I'm missing something, nothing here looks out of the ordinary for your average white queer liberal in the West. This is basically just neoliberalism, especially of the pinkwashed variety. Not some contradictory "My political ideology is impossible to decipher" type shit.

and ppl (whites) here on hexbear tried to tell me I actually wasn't seeing "clanker" used against black people as a "funny" stand-in for slurs

"it's just a star wars thing", "it's just used against AI bros"