Ethnic Minorities and People of Color

Can I still be a leftist if I support a genocidal colonization project? And if I center the feelings of those that are committing and benefiting from the genocide?

If you say no youre an antisemite

This whole debacle reminded me of when I saw a jewish USian teen who claimed to be "spiritually israeli" say that israel is the "most successful decolonization project ever" lmao sure just ask 99% of indigenous and colonized people worldwide what we think of your precious puppet state lmao

People who think gender is anywhere on the same level as race on the oppression scale get really quiet when asked to answer who's more oppressed: an israeli woman or a Palestinian man? Even with queer identities who's more oppressed, a trans lesbian israeli woman or a cishet Palestinian man?

If they have any issues answering honestly they are either in severe denial or outright brainwashed.

There's a specter haunting hexbear, the specter of Zionism and white tears

This job is honestly whack... sticking through it just fine and gonna keep going, but this upcoming weekend, I am actually thinking to accelerate the effort I put into the audiobook narration. I already got accepted on multiple platforms, and depending on how things end up going, I might eventually gain the ability to make this a full-time thing. Not getting ahead of myself yet, though... I'll have to continue putting up with this job until I feel like that is confidently a path I can actually take.

Is it just a glitch on my end or where there like 15 comments deleted??? What happened?

Gay panic being legal defense disgust me and many cases of homophobic violence was done by police. Amerikkans are violent animals fueled by propaganda and I worry not many can br saved. Notwithstanding liberals who are in their sticking heads in the ground and parroting the state era.

I also remember the don't ask don't tell era where there was debte on queer people openly serving in the military. When it repealed the queer community took it as a win, equal opportunity imperialism was the end goal of the state.

All month it's take care of old white folks fixing their stuff and I come home to do my best to look after my own parents. Not much changed from my own parents when my mom took care of rich white kids when she was younger

https://cumbiamurguera.tumblr.com/post/826286114742616064 Was gonna paste pics and the comments myself but hexbear shat itself but average white leftist idol moment

The amount of time and brain-calories hexbears are wasting on Dolly Parton is wild. Maybe she’s way, way more culturally influential in the states than I thought, but otherwise who gives a fuck? I don’t need an essay about how HMMMMPROBLEMATIC Rick Springfield or whoever the fuck was after they died. It’s cultural flotsam. Lib shit.

Glad to finally see some people pushing back against the excessive Dolly Parton glazing

Who would've thought some white chick worth 500M dollars from the South born during segregation would have skeletons in her closet?
https://slate.com/culture/2017/08/visiting-dolly-partons-dinner-show-dixie-stampede.html

Advertised as an “extraordinary dinner show … pitting North against South in a friendly and fun rivalry,” Dolly Parton’s Dixie Stampede is the Lost Cause of the Confederacy meets Cirque du Soleil. It’s a lily-white kitsch extravaganza that play-acts the Civil War but never once mentions slavery.

There were smatterings of black people, though I didn’t spot any who appeared to be there by themselves. Some were one half of an interracial couple, while others appeared to be there with their white co-workers or friends. Such is the appeal of Dolly, it would seem, that it crosses all racial borders.

When the trio performed an up-tempo version of “Amazing Grace,” the audience decided to clap along. They were very off-beat.

Before we could get to the games, though, we had to get through a little “history” lesson about the early days of America, beginning with live buffalo and “Native Americans.” Were the dancers and acrobats actually of Native American descent? It was hard to tell, as their performance took place entirely under black light to the tune of Parton’s 2009 song “Sha-Kon-O-Hey!” (The title of the song is intended to be a phonetic spelling of the Cherokee word for the Smoky Mountains.) As one of them flew through the air on cables, a pre-recorded voice-over described the indigenous peoples as “steeped in legend … mystery … and magic!”

At the dance’s conclusion came a swift scene change: “The magic gave way to a harsh reality when settlers came in from the east.” In one of the more true-to-history moments in the show, these native peoples weren’t seen again for the rest of the performance.

Even with that gracious assistance, however, the South won at both my performances. (According to reports from other attendees, the South doesn’t always win, but it usually does.) All the while, Roger Ballard would alternate between extolling the virtues of both sides and encouraging them to stand up and boo one another. (At both shows I attended, the South was noticeably more boisterous in its heckling.)

So while it may be a surprise to the fictional producers of Springtime for Hitler when it becomes a hit, it’s no surprise to me that Dolly Parton’s very real Dixie Stampede is a hit, too, and has been for almost 30 years. This is the same country where The Birth of a Nation was once the biggest box-office hit of all time and where Gone With the Wind still is. Dolly Parton is right about one thing: Dixie Stampede is as American as America gets.

The bathroom stalls are also segregated between northerners and southerners and the northerner sign is black lmao

I feel like such a weirdo for saying this and I’m torn between posting in the empoc thread or to the general site.  But I don’t have the time to field dogpiling today if the general site thinks I’m too much of an ultra for this, and it’s intended more of as introspective musing than as struggle-session fodder:  Dolly Parton has always made me uncomfortable

When did I ever even learn she existed?  Sometime in early childhood, but late enough that I’d learned that those white folks with those drawls and country-fashion and US flags were dangerous.  They were racist when I met them irl.  They were genocidal warmongers on the TV.  They glorified a culture that had murdered First Nations en masse, a culture that had tortured and enslaved Africans for generations, a culture that was now calling people who looked like me “terrorists” and doing horribly evil things.  The music that came from that culture and was inescapable on the radio, in stores, was all pro war nationalistic bullshit.  That culture was not to be trusted, and nor was anyone from it.

I didn’t know anything about Dolly Parton except that the biggest part of her brand was “white southern belle”, and so I was uncomfortable with her and did my best to just ignore her.  She didn’t stand out any more than anyone else really.  Until later, when for reasons I could not understand, it turned out she had become or perhaps had already been a meme and a queer, feminist, working class icon!  

Alright, so I would just ignore that discomfort or say fine, she’s a complicated woman.  Maybe I misjudged her.  She can’t help what culture she was born into, right?  I watched 9 to 5 and thought it was fun.  Not all discomfort or bias is legit or fair.

Well then today I saw this post: https://hexbear.net/post/9405321

Fucking what.  She was part of the same wave of post-9/11 jingoistic nationalistic country music that made me detest the genre so much!  And people just roll with it?  This cover creeps me out as much as if that were the 3rd Reich’s flag and she were posing in a Nazi suit with a hakenkreuz armband.  

Am I saying Dolly Parton is cancelled?  No, though that may just be cowardice on my part.  If I think about it more then maybe I will.  But, making it less about one dead woman who took some good stands and bad ones, it’s gotten me grappling more with how perplexed I’ve felt at liberals and even left-leaning people — not just white, black too! — leaning into the cowboy country wild western aesthetic.  When people were falling over themselves about Lil Nas X fusing country with hip-hop and queering it, my only reaction was “Meh — what in country can be disentangled from white supremacy?  Why would you want it?”  Everything cowboy-ey is tinged with slavery and genocide to me, and it’s weird to see anyone desiring it at all.  If you want some American Southwest desert culture that’s cooler, there were and are people living there who weren’t genocidal colonizing slavers!  I cannot shake this feeling that fetishization of “country” is inherently white supremacist, even when queer poc do it, even when they obviously don’t mean it that way.

RIP to Dolly anyway, and I’ll withhold the crabs raves out of respect for the good that she did do, but I don’t think I’ll ever be comfortable with her or any presentation of her legacy that does not grapple with everything that was problematic about what she represented and did.  But that is also a problem that is much bigger than just her, and I acknowledge it isn’t fair to pin it all on her.

Stupid as fuck how this site will talk about racism in dog form or literally anything else before it talks about anti-black racism.