EM & PoC weekly thread 01/06/2025

Have been sick for a while now. Started scrolling way too much again.

Reached the funny Islamic side, where people accuse eachother of being sufi, madhkalis, pseudo-salafis, kufr, munafiqeen, wahhabis, claims to be the Ahl al-Sunnah wa’l-Jamaa’ah and all other crazy stuff like the hustle culture bros or the Ottoman Empire apologists.

I am tired. What a waste of time. Really need to touch some grass.

Saw a dude with a keffiyeh print durag today

Im wondering how it would be received if one points out that possibly the biggest reason next to hell maybe bigger than class , America doesn't have healthcare, public spending etc that resembles even socdem levels is because of racism both anti black and towards the latino population with all the border fear mongering (asian folks as well). Hell race and class intertwined a lot because America been kind of a caste system for a while.
People like Frederick Ludwig Hoffman justified African Americans being charged higher insurance premiums with race science and he is very influential since then in the industry and the zeitgeist. His works were part of what was used to argue against a single healthcare system. Teddy Roosevelt at a critical time was promoting social healthcare and Hoffman stepped in to oppose it. The insurance company he work with were critical in what stopped the idea of single healthcare system proliferating.
Hell several insurance companies still charged higher insurance premiums blatantly for black people until 1984. Hell education system too zip codes and all that. These are just a few examples
Its no coincidence why chuds hell even libs point to racial homogeneity as a reason for why Japan china norway etc have better healthcare etc. It ain't no coincidence even lib politicians are subtle about the replacement theory with immigration. I ain't gonna say no class because class will always be a constant struggle but in a society with damn near caste system where race and class are treated almost the same down to material conditions for a long time there with a few exceptions its hard to ignore this shit.
- I ain't gonna say no class because class will always be a constant struggle but in a society with damn near caste system where race and class are treated almost the same down to material conditions for a long time there with a few exceptions its hard to ignore this shit.
  The Wretched of the Earth quote
  In the colonies the economic substructure is also a superstructure. The cause is the consequence; you are rich because you are white, yon are white because you are rich. This is why Marxist analysis should always be slightly stretched every time we have to do with the colonial problem.
I am 100% convinced that for the majority of the Hexbear user base, that if they started living in a Global South country they’d turn to a NATO-supporting liberal so fast. Simple class interests.
Suddenly all this posturing of being part of a “radical” political minority falls flat.
I feel like too many crackers on this site are blinded by the "I'm one of the good ones" mentality to a point that they'd never take a step back in their life to sit and wonder if there's any way they can stop being so fucking upsetting to their EMPOC comrades.
You're not doomer. You're just right.
- It will never not be baffling to me that Luigi is a hero but God forbid a non-white person denazifies some genocidal zionists.
  The settler & petty boug urge to label anti-colonial violence as "adventurist" reveals the state of things quite clearly.

I casually said the line, "Heterosexuals are the white people of sexualities," while talking to someone, and I don't know why it goes so hard.

I actually did advocacy for the city council hearing that Adam Friedland was trolling during the cold open of his new Ro Khanna episode.

If anyone is in NYC and interested, the NYPD runs an entirely secretive gang database which basically only registers Black and Latino young men. No italian mobsters, no Chinese street gangs. There have been kids as young as 12 added onto there and some people found themselves on there because they posted a selfie with a gang member or live in a public housing complex where gang activity occurs.

A specific case was when a graduate student in Connecticut got arrested for a RICO bust over Bronx gang activity because he featured people in his neighborhood in his amateur hip-hop videos. The federal prosecutor threatened him with the death penalty so he pled guilty to a weed trafficking charge and ended up getting kicked out of college right before graduation and lost his scholarship/financial aid. He’s delivery DoorDash right now.

leftist game club

by leftist, they mean vote blue, Trump is icky, and they have anti-fascist flags

I know it's reactionary to not want to agitate and organize, but I really don't feel like getting these crackers in shape. Some of them are volunteering to do free labor for a "small business owner," who may be the only one who's actually read any theory. And by theory, I mean The Communist Manifesto and Animal Farm.

vote blue, Trump is icky, and they have anti-fascist flags
Chud: "Sounds like a communist to me."

Finally got it... procrastinated a lot. Gonna be the longest track on the album at 8 minutes and 10 seconds. Real proud of it! It's prog af.

Those SA refugees about to be in for a shock when they find out they won't be able to afford the private schools they always send their kids to and your foreign degrees will be under scrutiny like a mf when job hunting.

Something tells me they’ll be alright in this country
- They may be fine by our or normal standards but back home they lived like kings basically. Domestic workers at their beck and call. Its gonna be a major downgrade. And they're spoiled af. The only dialogue I remember with em is some or other type of complaint.

arroz y frijoles pretty much everyday for me, added in some carne de soya and I'm set. Also salsa to make it go down easier, my classmates seeing me eating this everyday and wonder how I do it but I'm just built different

Never liked that amy schumer character but her weaponising Jewish allyship with poc to gain support for this genocide will always piss me off

I grew up around a lot of Jewish kids and many of them would do this. At first I thought "wow, I didn't know Jewish people were that much into civil rights" but now when I take their allyship, and the comments I also heard like "They were hiding in hospitals so it had to be bombed", then I know they're just trying to take credit for civil wins to spend on downplaying war crimes.
- Its fucked because there are plenty who ars genuine about thr allyship but ones like schumer marguiles hammer the poc and lgbt saying oh they wouldn't accept you in Palestine unlike in Israel. That good old western spin.
- do they think that the patients in the hospitals wouldn't hear a missile being fired right above them?

So the undocumented Arab man living in an extremely white city in the belly of the beast who was so fed up with seeing his cousins in Palestine be exterminated that he attacked a pro-genocide rally is now considered "mentally unwell"?!?! Unwell because he spoke in broken English? Or was it because he died his hair blonde to be less conspicuous when he purposefully set up incendiary against fascist genocide supporters? Or perhaps he was "mentally unwell" after witnessing everyone around him do nothing about the live-streamed genocide over 18 months?

The smug racists on this platform are outrageous. I'm going to touch grass for awhile and log out.

at first I thought you were talking about the reaction from main stream media, white people are white still

White people ran out of ideas with South Africa, with other colonies they're like "oh the technology, the education" there they're like "the white farmers" what do you mean white farmers? was they lack of melanin making the plants grow faster?

Happy Pride Month to all the LGBT++ homies.

I’m starting my job search in earnest today. Need to find a real grown-ass man job in computers and soon. I know we justly clown on techbros but my only job experience is in computers and IT. I do dread finding another MEGACORP gig, as they are all weirdly racist and sexist in lots of ways it’s hard to put into words. Yeah there is a lot of explicit and overt stuff but there so much implied and covert stuff. Work is such a racket.

Imma call BBC news Bibi C news. The state of them

Weren't they always like that?

Gotta be my favorite pride flag 🫡

I woke up today forgetting that it's pride month, and it feels sad because I know the reason why: I've distanced myself from LGBTQ+ spaces so much that it just didn't occur to me like it has for the past few years. Why? Because most of the LGBTQ+ spaces I've interacted with are overwhelmingly white, and the experiences with that, as you would expect, are

I don't know how to explain it better than, LGBTQ+ spaces feels like the Target Queer section. Almost like a hate crime with nothing behind it beyond visibility and rainbows
The whiteness of these spaces is part of why it took me so long to figure it out. I felt out of place and figured I mist be cishet rather than because the whiteness was repellant
I never bothered with grindr both because of my anxiety around sex and also because I keep hearing how racist it is. I got one queer friend online in my friend group when everyone else is pretty damn white. This shit gets kind of lonely fr

Many such cases.

My cousin decided to marry a redneck and now she doesn't want to spend time at any of the family reunions because they're racist. Its not even like her husband isn't, he's pretty openly racist, but IDK. I would say I feel bad for her, but it seems like that's her type anyway so

My half-sister married a crypto fascist and I'm banned from her house, so that's neat.
- She always trying to invite my mom and me over to where they live. I could never. No one is going to be racist to my face and think I'm not going to say shit.

NEW THREAD DANCE

- That's a real nice chicken you got there.

Wonder if anyone else has a familiar nickname that's way off from their legal name. I quite like mine and have been having my close friends use it. It's probably the closest to a true name I got since internally I use it when talking to myselfs. It tends to be odd to my white friends but idk sometimes it hard to explain to them

Same. Except, my nickname is based off my legal name but people who don't speak the language wouldn't know this. I've been told they thought I just decided to pick a totally different name because it sounded cooler. Haha
- Fr my white friends here my legal name and can't connect the dots, my mom has a cooler one goes by Maria but for some reason her family call her kooka I think that's how you spell it

Hell yeah new empoc mega