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poor leftists talk about poverty, labor aristocrats get uncomfortable and insist that sociological classes aren’t materialist. “all that matters is that we’re working class - we’re all in this together”
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black leftists talk about racism, whites get uncomfortable and insist that they’re not personally part of the problem. “we mustn’t allow the bourgeois to divide the proletariat along racial lines - we’re all in this together”
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female leftists talk about patriarchy, men get uncomfortable and insist that it hurts them too. “this men vs women stuff is reductive anyway - we’re all in this together”
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third world leftists talk about imperialism, americoids get uncomfortable and insist that red white and blue lives matter too. “what happened to the international working class - we’re all in this together”
you don’t have to invite yourself to every form and experience of oppression. anyone with a baby’s consciousness of intersectionality ought to be capable of admitting when they have privilege
People really do need to learn when to shut up
I can’t believe we’re having this struggle session now involving 3 year old accounts?
How did they keep quiet this long and what made them lose this ability?
i know, im kinda wilding
earnestly waiting, i need to know what brainworms i have that will end with me being banned now
If I had to guess (not for you specifically, but hexbear in general), it would be tone indicators. The last big struggle session that I can think of was whether we should use tone indicators to accomodate neurodivergent people. It actually makes sense to use them in an online forum like this, even for neurotypical people because nuance is lost when one is just reading text straight up. However, I saw a lot of pushback on this sort of thing from users that would normally be all about the “hexbear party line” (so to speak) of things like vegan solidarity, trans solidarity and respecting pronouns, etc. And it’s the same line of argumentation that people who were against meat content warnings were using (“what’s the big deal?” etc.). So yeah perhaps that’s the next frontier.
i already have to badger people to do spoiler tags and nsfw tags properly for trauma related content, that is gonna take ages to catch on
i do usually use emojis as a tone indicator a lot of times though 🤔 thats probably not very reliable for a lot of neurodivergent people but maybe some emojis could be made to ease adoption, would have to inform people on hover texts
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Shush you’re never allowed to leave. I won’t let you.
what is this, a hotel in california?
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Huh, I had no idea, what’s the message of Hotel California?
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I had always taken the lyrics to be about a loss of innocence that comes with working in the California entertainment industry. It’s all glamorous from the outside but within the residents have become deranged and exploitative.
WHAT?
For fuck sakes there ain’t no good boomer song
Wtf I didn’t interpret it that way at all lmao, I thought it was a funny joke about California having nice weather or something which made you not want to leave
I’m too innocent
I’m pissed off, but unsurprised. I’ve been seeing this same shit throughout the western white left since I became a leftist.
A lot of these people have been saying the same things for years, if they weren’t being transphobic or making jokes about pumpkin spice lattes the mods just let them be and so did the user base