homhom9000 [she/her]

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  • homhom9000 [she/her]toem_pocEM POC WEEKLY THREAD 11/4/2024
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    2 months ago

    I still love my people but they have lost their damn minds after Tuesday. Saying no one is there for us so they won't be there for anybody else. I asked them, what have you done for people ? Crickets. Nevermind we had fantastic protest turnout in 2020 nevermind there is a literal genocide happening to another group that I know they're ignoring. Anyway, we're not free unless we're all free



  • Marxist understand it's useless to view politics through identity alone.

    On one hand, I thinking trying to "get" people on pronouncing her name wrong is just a way to do a gotcha because there's nothing else. On the other hand, I do recognize pronouncing names correctly is important. But the most important thing is if people correct themselves after being corrected then that's the end of the conversation. You're not automatically racist unless you're intentionally mispronouncing or butchering it completely to be funny.




  • There was discourse on tiktok where a white leftist called out democrats and Kamala. Kamala liberals then went on to smear them for being racist or whatever. Then other leftist, including POC, came to their defense because they were right. I don't think people changed their minds after but even if you're right, you'll have to be strong enough to take whatever backlash comes, even if wrong or in bad faith. The people who are open to dialogue will follow.

    I don't technically think it's good to self censor but if you need to talk around something for people to understand better then by all means do that. Ask questions and make it a conversation, if they're dead set on holding onto liberals then move on, it's not your fight.

    Never talk down on BIPOC people either because then it'll be harder to defend you. You may know more than SOME but lived experience is a bitch, dismissing or undermining that will backfire. Eventhough you and I are likely on the same side, I still take your word with caution because white folk are finicky. It's nothing against you personally.