• 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”

  • 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”

  • 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”

  • 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

  • raven [he/him]@hexbear.netEnglish
    48·
    1 year ago

    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?

    • kristina [she/her]@hexbear.netEnglish
      46·
      1 year ago

      i know, im kinda wilding

      earnestly waiting, i need to know what brainworms i have that will end with me being banned now

      • arabiclearner [none/use name]@hexbear.netEnglish
        26·
        1 year ago

        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.

        • kristina [she/her]@hexbear.netEnglish
          35·
          1 year ago

          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

    • Sandinband [any, comrade/them]@hexbear.netEnglish
      19·
      1 year ago

      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