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  • A lot of westerners take middle east’s casual racism, sexism and homophobia as a sign of Israel’s progressiveness, when in reality the zionist entity is a competitive player, putting gay people in prison is a rookie move when you can black mail them into doing terrorism and being informants [insert clever way to include how female IOF soldiers that are available for marriage are presented during birth right tour].

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      It’s White Man’s Burden: 2025 edition

      (please ignore how racist, sexist, homophobic, classist, antisemitic, and transphobic the west is towards its own population)

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      A lot of westerners, unfortunately, really have fallen for the lie that the Global North is more “advanced” in terms of LGBTQ+ rights, women’s rights, etc. than the Global South. Pinkwashing would no longer be as handy for deception if more of them knew this wasn’t the case. The West is quite clearly still incredibly bigoted towards anyone who isn’t white, cishet, a man, etc.

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    Glad Hulk Hogan dead but annoyed with all the white people on reddit-logo saying “I don’t agree with his views but you’re a piece of shit for celebrating his death” dear lord the amount of lmayo giving a shit about him is astounding. Like you’re clearly defending him if you keep asking for us to respect him after he died for his family like nah no dice.

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    I hate how living in the “ghetto” is both something people will discriminate against while also wanting to act like they grew up in it. What sparked this thought was hearing two pasty foreign teens say, “why you lowkey ate with that?” I remember when talking like that would make whites think you were mentally deficient and now they do it all the time while acting like they grew up in the projects even though most of them live in the nicest suburbs.

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      Eminem and his consequences have been a disaster for American culture.

      There were a lot of these white boys when I was in high school who would talk in AAVE and impersonate Eminem. They listened to no other hip hop and were complete posers. Our school was in one of the safest places in the city, yet these whities were acting like they bang.

      While we didn’t have many black people where I grew up, we did have a lot of Latine people. So of course these dumbfuck kids are also racist and classist while their parents buy them cars to sit around in and beat box in the parking lot. A lot of them played sports on top of that, which got them more leeway when they did stupid shit that would get other kids suspended.

      I don’t know what happened to all these preps after graduation. I imagine they inherented their dads’ boat dealerships. I’m ranting. You just unlocked a memory of people I loathed back in high school lol

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      White people have no culture so they just pick from ones they like. It is funny hearing them talk like they knowing if they step foot in an area with a homeless person, they’ll freak out and swear they survived the projects

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    why do so many people get away with being so vocally “pro-Palestinian” and “anti-genocide” but you work at IBM/Microsoft/PwC/insert other company that directly contributes to the genocide ??? how are you so SHAMELESS?

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    Trying to decipher how much of my personality is appeasement mannerism come about from being big and brown and folx idk sometimes I feel bad for experiencing emotions that could be seen as threatening and it’s just exhausting. Definitely feels like I’m playing a stereotype for acceptance and a pessimistic part of me tells myself people just keep me around to feel better about themselves.

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        Right, they’re good to feel and I do with my family but outside with white people I sometimes feel like I gotta keep a happy dopey mask on. I also tend to come off as very apologetic and it’s hard to turn off

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          Sounds like we might have the opposite approach to the same problem and are both suffering because the problem itself isn’t one that can be fixed without fixing white people. It feels like a damned no matter what you do thing. I don’t have the capacity to mask anymore but then I keep getting in trouble with white people for being open and honest about being a human being and having feelings that aren’t just “I’m a bhoddisattva”. It’s frustrating, but the price of playing nice is frustrating too.

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            yea it’s very much a white people in general thing but I’m not holding my breath on them changing anytime soon just getting worse. badeline-disgust I’ve grown sicken with how many of them might have only been kind to me because of a white savior complex I’m dead certain that’s the case to every white church I’ve frequented growing up with friends.

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        My place is flip a coin levels, it very much depends on what side of town I’m at the places I can relax vs I have to move fast but not too fast out of kind of deal.

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      white guilt is just virtue signalling at best and a self indulgent treat for masochists at worst

      if you really feel bad about it then give me your house

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    I hate the white cracker treat brain. “I come here to escape real-world problems.” Motherfucker, if you can turn that part of your brain off, it’s not really a problem for you, is it?

    I do not get the privilege of telling the cops “Yeah I don’t feel like doing a racist ableism right now. Can we reschedule this for Thursday?” with them responding all “Okay that works for us, too! We’ll be back to do our racial profiling then! Please meet us again right here.”

    If I can’t rely on the people in this space to not whine about how something happening is affecting their ability to consoom without thinking about the thing, it means I have to keep my guard up. You get to zone out, while I have to go through the effort of watching what I say in case some fuckwad thinks it’d be funny to send false reports to ICE/the FBI/local police/Social Security Admin/the IRS as the least harmful scenario that could play out.

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      It gets even worse when you try to bring up politics in their favorite escapism, I’m in the weird case where I do like it and see a lot of potential in some lib media but I have to remind myself it’s still lib media. Racism is just here is usually some dumb fuck saying something and the heroes giving an epic clapback instead of anything systemic tear down of institutions that keep minorities down. Hereos can stop a world ending threat but “oh no don’t fight the cops they’re just doing their jobs” it’s only a few bad apples shit.

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    To the Americans here, if you’re given a choice of immigrating to another country, anywhere you desire, and never coming back, would you take it? I was wondering why everyone around me kept reassuring me that things will get better after a few years, but then I realized they were either whites, church-goers, or 🍊 supporters.

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      The smart answer is “Hell yes”.

      I am not smart. I am territorial. I get very attached to what I know and love and do not want to leave it. I am probably autistic.

      I had asked myself this question in 2015 and 2016 because Trump was so scary. The wave of genocidal white supremacy he was riding looked so powerful, and I thought that staying here might mean death. I had a friend in Canada urging me to move up with her. But I thought about it, and the answer I arrived at was basically, “this is my home, this is my land. The insects I love will not be somewhere else. The birds I love will not be somewhere else. The trees I love will not be somewhere else. The people I love will not be somewhere else. Sure there’s probably other good things elsewhere, but it’s not what I’ve known my whole life. This is my home, and if I’m given a choice between dying to stay here and living somewhere else, I will die here, and I’ll take as many of the fuckers who want to expel or kill me with me when they come for me.”

      A ridiculous sentiment for the child of two people who are halfway across the world from their homelands. But I’m not my parents. I’m me. And even though my life has fallen apart here, this is still my stance. I just don’t want to leave.

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        this is how i wish i felt but unfortunately i don’t feel compelled to this place at all. probably because i wasn’t born here and despite numerous attempts i have no friends or real family here, no genuine connections, only painful memories and unrewarded struggle. but i always find myself punching the air wishing i did have a reason to want to stay, if there was just something to give me some ounce of belonging or hope

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            yea honestly it’s so funny to me that for example people will call for the complete destruction of israel but then go on to say the US is somehow different and can be reformed… have the same energy for both, the US is arguably worse in every way, you just don’t want “your” “home” destroyed and your treats and familiarities taken away.

            i don’t want any part to do with here anymore but child-me still emotionally dealing with the residual rejection gaslighting from just wanting to make friends and be accepted by those around me. i’m sure once i’m out that will subside

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      Absolutely ICE is only gonna get more and more aggressive and I fear for my family. I very much doubt liberals will ever do anything meaningful about ICE/border patrol, ideal scenario would be we somehow lived in china but more realistically prob mexico since with the new president things seems to be getting better there at least.

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      I’m going to the DPRK the first chance I get, become an american “defector” and tell everyone about how the president is a pedophile who kidnaps people to foreign countries (wait I forgot to lie)

      Being a materialist and realizing that poverty is a war to rob the working class peoples of their current and future lives has disabused any liberal notion of “giving up” anything.

      My parents were immigrants, I’ll likely be an immigrant as well, best spend my life building socialism with the skills Ive gained in the West.

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      I think things are bad globally, minus a few countries, and there’s no actual escaping. But if things get really bad I’m going to my parents country.

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      It’d be tough for me. Even outside of the context of the current environment here, I’ve always told other people from the same background as me that I could never really see myself moving back to my parents home country. Even though their country is a short plane ride away, my dad would make yearly trips and leave us here, unlike how other kids I knew who would go every summer. So I don’t really have a deep connection and even as an adult I’ve never really felt the desire to reconnect. And it has its own history seeped in the exploitation and blood of POC so its like… I’d be trading the US for a nation that, under the influence of the US, hasn’t had a vastly different history aside from being exploited by the US all the same.

      If I absolutely saw myself in a situation where I had no choice at all then the only place I could think of is Cuba.

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        Almost. It really started in February of last year. I’ve had a few pockets of grace, but they didn’t last long.

        One job I got terminated without explanation and the other was a temporary position which sucked anyway (especially due to issues like misgendering and microaggressions) so I left before it even ended but it was close to ending when I did.

        A few other jobs seemed like promising offers but ended up being misleading and deceptive.

        Since this is the only instance where I leveraged networking to increase my chances of getting a job, this one seems to be far more likely to land.

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    Seeing white Americans hating HOA is nice but attributing it to sexism (Karens) instead of their own racist ass practices does make me angry ngl. Not gonna defend either but gonna enjoy watching them fight

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    rant about non-vegan bullshit in medicine

    I fucking hate how medications are not vegan. Basically, every single medication is tested on animals, and a lot of them contained animal-derived ingredients. I’m going to see if I can get some sort of animal-free version of my meds, but I probably can’t sweat it too much if I can’t. I’m also getting my HRT and antidepressants covered by a trans charity who works with a local pharmacy of mine, so I really don’t financially have access to external sources that might have a solution for this. Ugh.

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      Just kinda came to this realization year back when I took antibiotics for a tooth abscess, unless otherwise stated everything is bound to have gelatin sadly. I’m on Medicaid so don’t know if I got a lot of options too