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Building off some good discussion in the other thread today. I’m thinking about how can white Hexbear users can be better here, and in leftist spaces, AND when we engage with the broader BIPOC communities? What are we doing wrong, and what can we do that’s better?

And I 100% get that’s it’s not on marginalized folks to explain it to us. I do. It’s just, at this moment I’m trying not to get overwhelmed with feeling like it’s just not possible to make the world better. Not even get us to socialism, just getting things to be a tiny bit better. I don’t know what else to do. So I’m reaching out to my BIPOC comrades with an open hand. If you feel like sharing, please do.

For the white folks, we need to be better. We do. It may not be comfortable to hear, but we do. Maybe we’re not as bad as the libs and the chuds on this but that’s not a valid measuring stick. Come on.

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[–] tuga@hexbear.net 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Best thing we, white people, can do to be less weird to EVERYONE and not just BIPOC people is not be the white people that be like "white people be like: " because we be white and that looks cringy AF to everyone

[–] g_g@hexbear.net 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

white people be like: Best thing we, white people, can do to be less weird to EVERYONE and not just BIPOC people is not be the white people that be like "white people be like: " because we be white and that looks cringy AF to everyone

[–] tuga@hexbear.net 1 points 1 year ago

I've been owned