hexbear.net has raised over $1500 for Palestine over the past few weeks - Reddthat
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Some comrades over at Hexbear have organized a donation drive for Palestine and, over the past few weeks, have managed to raise over $1500 for verified Palestinian fundraisers. The fediverse is a good place full of good people.

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comrade @Riverside@reddthat.com here isn’t the slop, it’s the comments. I mean regardless of what they think of us, this is sad lol

  • JoeByeThen [he/him, they/them]@hexbear.netEnglish
    20·
    5 months ago

    Look, I was trying to be playful in my first response but I’m watching this get up votes so I’m just gonna be blunt. If you feel the need to say this, perhaps you’re better off just not calling yourself a leftist? Solidarity is a core concept of being leftist and if even the aesthetics of supporting AES states to a fucking LIB is that much of a burden, maybe being “leftist” isn’t for you?

    Just hold the line, hexbear. It’s not rocket science.

    • FunkyStuff [he/him]@hexbear.netEnglish
      17·
      5 months ago

      You’re right, to the extent that one can exercise solidarity and be materially useful to the interests of the working classes of the entire world, one should do so. And there are real material links between helping organize and advance the positions of workers in, say, Guatemala, and the project of Chinese socialism. We shouldn’t shy away from saying as such, so yes, my previous message is not universally correct. It is correct in the context of raising money for Palestinians and someone interjecting with “you guys support Chinese authoritarianism though” because in that context, it really is salient and relevant to say that nothing Hexbear has done as a community materially[1] impacts China.

      1. By “materially,” in the loose way I’m using it in this sentence, I roughly mean to that extent and in the same order of significance of the previously stated fundraising drive ↩︎

      • JoeByeThen [he/him, they/them]@hexbear.netEnglish
        11·
        5 months ago

        It is correct in the context of raising money for Palestinians and someone interjecting with “you guys support Chinese authoritarianism though” because in that context, it really is salient and relevant to say that nothing Hexbear has done as a community materially[1] impacts China.

        I appreciate your acknowledgement, but hard disagree at this. Because at that point you’ve now engaged in their propagation of harmful stereotypes and have ceded the point to them. “Oh, you say so and so beats his wife? Well I don’t support him, but I still like him.” Fine you’re not contributing to impacting them materially, but you are now contributing to harming them. Debatable whether we need to be directly engaging with these assholes at all, but if you are it sure as hell shouldn’t be to appease them. Our job as leftist is to set an example and build the future. Not getting all wishy washy so the libs like us.