em_poc

I just paid my rent and holy shit-

Im tired of living hand in mouth

Im tired of my pig fuck landlord gouging 80% of my monthly income

Im tired of my cruel shitbag manager telling me to work harder for less money.

My depression is turing into hate and rage

"I'd rather vote for a corpse than Trump"

Buddy, you must just get your wish

it feels like this year is flying by, and I haven't done much.

I was talking to my closest friend tonight about the concept of hiring discrimination and it got heated. The topic of diversity quotas came up, which, as far as I'm concerned, is an overblown right wing culture war talking point, but she fully believes that it's an issue because she "doesn't believe in discrimination."

I believe her, she's genuinely a good person, but I also think that things like diversity quotas were put in place because white people historically cannot be trusted to not be biased against minorities. It's a measure to combat institutional discrimination. She agreed, and she couldn't think of a better alternative to diversity mandates since you can't "force people to be good," but she still thought they were wrong.

Her argument frustrated me because it sounded a lot like she was saying that people were only being hired because of diversity quotas, which is ridiculous and I think where the argument becomes unabashedly racist. To be considered for a job, in my mind, you have to be capable of actually doing it. Therefore someone hired where diversity tipped it in their favour is already also capable of doing the job, else they wouldn't be considered. The white PhD is not going to be passed over for any POC off the street, but if there's also a POC PhD in the running, and the company has a 90% white work force, what is the issue in hiring the POC PhD? She didn't accept the idea that the POC candidates aren't being hired purely for diversity reasons and I think this is a result of white American brainworms.

I think I could have done a better job of representing the argument but I probably don't understand the topic as well as I think I do. I dismiss a lot of the points as culture war nonsense not worth thinking about. Are 'diversity quotas' actually as prevalent as white people think they are? What are some stronger thoughts on this whole topic? Am I even making the correct argument here?

I'm feeling pretty down about this because she's literally my closest friend and it sucks to hear her make these kinds of arguments.

I've been looking for queer spaces specifically for black people or at least BIPOC in general. Queer cracKKKers are so blinded by the privilege that they get by being white that they forget to express solidarity in being marginalized when they interact with queer ethnic minorities/people of color. I hope to find something soon. At this rate, I will never lose the caution I have when I'm around bleach demons, and maybe that's for the best.

I'll say, Def didn't feel great for my race to be a specific topic question during the debates but solidarity with Chinese, Latin American and Palestinians folks for also being the byproduct of political fodder.

I have a new niece now! She was born during the midst of a major storm lol

Something about babies and the way their little hands curl around your fingers melts my heart.

Of course this is the child of my brother with the white British wife. Her parents were saying weird shit about how the baby is a “beautiful Latina” and looks white without actually being white. This kind of dumb shit is why I could never really marry into a white family.

MY cold is almost gone it seems

I should delete the internet

Overall I'm doing fine. Feeling a little burnedout from work, but I hung out with coworkers in the middle of last week and things are going well with my crush too.

I went to a small family gathering for a couple of my cousins' kids high school graduation. It was ok, until everyone decided to go down the Christofash talking points rabbit hole. Anti-communism, misogyny, and queerphobia just flying out of peoples mouths in quick succession.

Also my mom today told me that one of my cousins' chud cracker husband was being racist. I had heard him say some dumbshit about someone not speaking "real English" after coming back from the bathroom, but I had no idea what he was referring to. My mom said that he was talking about an artist from our country who was singing a song with some lyrics in English. I really don't like him, but my cousin seems to just gravitate towards shitty crackers. Her first partner when she moved here was a cop and I don't remember where she met her husband, but he's some redneck from the South. I shouldn't be surprised though, most of my mom's side of the family are evangelicals, so high chance that they'd have shitty worldviews.

gonna have to move again real soon

white people saying "ahh" instead of ass kills me becasue have you heard how they say it irl? they cant even say it. they say ahh like they are lowercase yelling like "ahhhhhh" but shorter its wild. just say ass.

@aaaaaaadjsf can you speak any Southern African languages? you can PM instead if you want

(also applies to anyone here that can speak any Southern African languages)