Benjamin J. Davis, born on this day in 1903, was American lawyer and communist who was elected in 1943 to the New York City Council, representing Harlem. Davis was persecuted by the state via the anti-communist Smith and McCarran Acts.
Davis became radicalized through his role as defense attorney in the 1933 trial of Angelo Herndon, a 19-year-old black communist who had been charged “attempting to incite insurrection” because he tried to organize a farm workers’ union.
In 1949, Davis was among a number of communist leaders prosecuted for violating the Smith Act. He was convicted and sentenced to five years in prison. In 1962 Davis was charged with violating the Internal Security Act (also known as the McCarran Act), but died before the case could come to trial.
“Whether one agrees with the Communist Party or not, one must at least know the truth about it. One must not permit his ideas to be shaped by the hysteria which now passes as a ‘crusade against Communism’… For example, the canard that every Communist has his pockets lined with ‘Moscow gold.’ If that were true, one could be sure that there would scarcely be any room in our party for workers. The capitalists, to whom gold is god of the universe, would crowd them out.”
- Benjamin J. Davis
I hope you nerds have a good month of September 
Remember no crackers
I think as a zionist website we should all condemn Hamas because they defended themselves against Jews when they really should’ve been targeting the US
Kinda antisemitic to imply Jews have free will and arent soley puppeted by the US
The real problem with the Palestinian genocide is that when you say it’s bad, you aren’t specific enough with your language to make clear that your special-flavor cracker neighbors who only ideologically, financially and materially support it instead of directly participating in it are exempt from criticism because Europeans committed a genocide against other Europeans 80 years ago ergo the palest motherfuckers you’ve ever seen are oppressed in the anti-
whiteJewish nazi hotbed of Brooklyn New York.
What a week, we’ve lost Frivolous_Beatnik and AlHouthiForPresident because they couldn’t take the caucasity of the site anymore.
Appreciating all the non-cracker comrades extra hard right now.
What a week, we’ve lost Frivolous_Beatnik and AlHouthiForPresident because they couldn’t take the caucasity of the site anymore.
Wait, what? Nooooooooooooooooooooo …
remember when the site was all “libs killed #MeToo when it targeted biden”? the psl shit is the exact same thing. “don’t call out sexpests if those sexpests are communists” settler orgs gonna settler org i guess
The
s of this site are very good at being the very thing they claim to be against… and without realizing it.“Is it wrecker fed shit when abusers are allowed to walk around without consequences in positions of power within the org? No, clearly it’s the victims who are to blame for not shutting up.”
Im telling this white dude how the UAE military are trained by Americans and he hits me with the “you are just bringing up noble savage arguments” same thing that happens when I bring up all the fucked shit the imperial core does around the world, or calling me a campist for supporting Iran, Yemen, Palestine, Venezuela.
I fucking hate whites Jesus fucking Christ
Dude clearly doesn’t even understand what the “noble savage” thing is.
I’ve gotten the “campist” thing too and while I wouldn’t choose that label myself, I don’t actually see a problem with what they’re decrying as “campism” given certain undeniable truths about how power and oppression are distributed globally.
I remember I had a failed date over me being a “campist.”
I was getting to know this Black trans woman, and I thought she was super sweet and finally someone compatible with me. She seemed firmly leftist and pan-Africanist, and she’s vegan, too.
This was back when I had this old Instagram profile where my bio said I’m a Marxist-Leninist.
She ended up seeing this, texting me, and saying, “Oh, I see your account says you’re an ML. Sorry, I don’t like campists!”
I was livid. Genuinely.
That’s frustrating, I’m sorry.
I had a bad date with someone who seemed cool until they started ranting about how much they hated tankies, a term I’d not heard. I asked what that meant, and as they described it more I began to suspect they’d consider me one too if we talked politics more. I did not give them a 2nd date
“Noble Savage Arguments” is when you stand in solidarity with the oppressed of the world.
Someone showed me the WashingtonDC subreddit where they keep highlighting anto-China protesters and discussed calling ICE on pro-China demonstrators.
This is like when they talked about calling ICE on Latinos that voted for trump and then pretend it never happened.
This weekend I went to some social gathering and inadvertently sat across from the table with someone who “works on drone warfare for the US military”. She claims to think it’s bad but still does it anyway for the (much higher than I’ve ever made) paycheck, and had some self-serving justifications about putting the money into good causes – but none of those causes help the victims of her work (not that it would make her work ok if they did).
This white trans “leftist” is getting ethicsmogged by my friend’s conservative Catholic dad, who left the arms industry 3 or 4 decades ago to go get a real job instead because he couldn’t reconcile his work with his faith.
With leftists like these who needs fascists?
Hoping September is good for us all
So apparently the reason pink spoke about Macklemore saying free Palestine on stage its cause she “was born a jew” and “felt scared as a jewish mom” lmao these people really just keep telling on themselves and yet white leftists will still coddle them. This pic is how anybody who isn’t a spineless coward feels about it. Ed Shitstain also claiming to be “apolitical” yet supported ukraine lmao this backfired at least and all their supporting acts left tour (maybe not a good idea to side with zionists when your supporting acts are almost all Irish people just a tip). There’s way more to all statements by all parties but you all already know the talking points. Pink should be stripped of her fucking UNICEF ambassador over this fuck her especially all the way to hell but fuck all other zionazis involved too.
Kinda weird they just pick and choose when to be Jewish. Do they think Palestinians do the same ?
I’ve seen many Jewish people say they’re Jewish even if they don’t practice it, so what are they saying? They’re Jewish when it comes to the rapture but not Jewish when they need accountability
The consequences of propaganda by europeans of jews being considered an “ethnicity” and not just a religion really. It’s bs especially cause you are much more likely to associate Islam with ethnic groups rather than jews (unless its white ones lmao).
The struggle sessions about this on hexbear are always pathetic because it’s like 3 users who are clearly thinking about their 5% inner circle Jewish anti-zionists and not the 95% of modern Judaism being built on the genocide of indigenous people.
Don’t let them find out where most of the worlds Jews live; every Jew is actually personally traumatized by the holocaust so you need to play word salad to protect their feelings and it’s not a israeli nationalist mythologization of eternal Jewish victimhood that’s cleanly separated from other victimhoods and any mention of communism to be force fed to every western child.
“I’m oppressed”
“Fuck off with that made up bullshit” “I’m oppressed”
”SO TRUE!”It’s a good thing that all these rich white fucks cosplaying as oppressed, despite all their power, are not the ones that will ultimately decide what will happen to us on the peripheries. WE will, even tho we will fight and sacrifice a lot, but by God we are all gonna free ourselves from these ghoulish imperial core shitstains starting by the belly of the beast.
I didn’t even know she was Jewish lmao…Madonna is a convert and more notably Jewish. Like how you gonna have pink hair and pink skin and claim you’re indigenous to the Mediterranean?
Right? What exactly is she scared of when someone says “free Palestine”, a territory that is half way around the world where she lives?
Prolly being able to pull the “as a (white) jew (filthy rich usian) I’m part of the biggest and eternal victims so anything I say or do can never be criticized”.
It’s also the fact that Macklemore said free Sudan, Congo, Cuba etc but ONLY the free Palestine got people clutching their pearls.
Its funny because the thing that a lot of Zionists love doing is “if you care so much about genocide, why don’t you talk about these other ones”. The fact that he mentioned the others yet the conversation still got center around Jewish self-victimization is just astounding. Can’t be any clearer that all this boils down to is
I’ve seen more pro-Palestine people who speak about multiple ongoing genocides than I’ve seen any jewish person who only cares about the holocaust and also ukraine when they want to do some actual whataboutism that they constantly accuse communists of lmao Even if many of the people who speak were only speaking about Palestine, even if it is a blindspot, so? It takes nothing away from the fact it is a genocide and needs to be opposed in any way unless you only care about semantics or have something to gain from it.
whataboutism 
Same people who act offended if you suggest the Holocaust isn’t the Genocide and can’t comprehend the idea that countries outside of Europe have their own histories of genocide that they might have good reason to focus education on instead of the one that happened in Europe
Argued with a cracker about this once. Went as well as you’d expect.
Me neither lmao also the gall of a rich USian cracker centering the genocide of palestinians on her “feelings” and ofc she had to pull not just the jewish card but also the mom card to appeal to white moms lmao
This “antisemitism” shit is starting to be a really sharp litmus test
It really is and it also reveals who’s white and who’s not here lmao
It’s like everytime we have an incel struggle session and we relearn who benefits from patriarchy on a personal level
Indistinguishable from teenage neonazis crying about “anti-white” racism on stormfront
what worries me about the western left is how low they’ll get for so little, AOC, Bernie, Mamdani, Abdul Seyed and the DSA gang haven’t pulled out the free healthcare card and they got them dancing and celebrating??? being a ride or die for a candidate who doesn’t even promise the minimum
The bar is so low in America that people will celebrate any politician who promises some economic relief and isn’t blatantly hateful
Same people who always go “why isn’t [insert global south country] doing something about this” while doing jack shit to destroy the empire from the inside lmao they think posting on lib zionist hexbear is praxis
For real, it’s pathetic.
In 2024 when liberals were falling over acting like they genuinely believed Kopmala “Holocauϟϟt Harriϟϟ” was a progressive darling who would definitely end the genocide in Palestine and finally bring stability and prosperity to all, and getting mad at me for not playing along, I realized that these people were just engaging in willfull self-delusion. They just wanted to cling to the comforting lie of hope that the DemoKKKratic Party is good and will protect them and will give them a better life if they just put their faith in it.
This is weirdly similar to the response a lot of people have for the fake socialists you list above, who will get upset when people criticize those politicians for their collaboration with zionist and capitalist powers.
In both cases it’s not about the candidates or what they promise, it’s about chasing that feeling of delusional hope, and they’ll get mad at us for interfering in their access to that fake hope because it is all that stands between them and despondency. But clinging to fake hope is counterrevolutionary and prevents people from seeking actual solutions.
Same people who were celebrating and cheering in the streets over Biden’s win and then ignored all the terrible stuff he did. It’s always about vibes for them.
No free healthcare, no defuned the police, no abolish ICE. The list goes on. But I guess epic clapbacks on social media or having a good personality is enough.
when the DSA electoralist liberal who promises healthcare, they’re going to excuse him dropping a nuke.
So texas schools, who famously call African slaves “immigrants”, are removing all Muslim contributions to algebra and maths and describing Muslims as violent savages while forcing schools to teach kids about israel being founded “in the ancestral land of the jews” and reading Anne Frank’s diary, while they censor and remove slavery and civil rights, which was already extremely whitewashed. Please tell me again who are the actual oppressed groups.
removing all Muslim contributions to algebra and maths and describing Muslims as violent savages while forcing schools to teach kids about israel being founded “in the ancestral land of the jews”
Not gonna lie, this feels like Southern Strategy 2.0, anti-Muslim Zio edition
Infohazard: pro-Platner news Drop Site News excerpt
Marg bar White and Jewish supremacy, the sarkha rings out truer every day
Not gonna lie, this feels like Southern Strategy 2.0, anti-Muslim Zio edition
I can’t wait for us to get Daughters of the
ConfederacyOnly Democracy in the Middle East™ where they go full Lost Cause over Israel. We’ll get CleanWehrmachtIOF andTojoboosBenjanetboos for good measure, I’m sure.And yet the useless and pathetic white western left will do jack shit but cry about a non-existent antisemetic crisis and coddle jewish tears as if they’re the real victims. Hope this goes as well as the D.A.R.E bs.
Crackers will still insist that if you stop pretending for even one second that Jews are oppressed in the year of our lord 2026, the ghost of Adolf Hitler will immediately ascend from the depths of hell, dismantle holocaust education and turn everyone into neo-nazi holocaust deniers as if we’re not well on the way to that being basically the only thing that’s ever taught in a US history classroom.
How many holocaust museums are there in the US? How many American genocide museums are there?
dismantle holocaust education and turn everyone into neo-nazi holocaust deniers
Which is funny because that already happened. I was taught literal Holocaust denial and clean SS myths (Wernher von Braun, Erwin Rommel) as we were learning about how bad WWII and the Holocaust were. Most students in the English-speaking world were exposed to lies perpetuated by David Irving if they graduated high school before 2010ish. The last of his books weren’t pulled from university libraries until 2017. Do the Zionists focus any of their attention on this? No. The focus everything on Palestinians and middle easterners in general, despite efforts by Arabs to protect Jews during the Holocaust when Europeans were gladly collaborating with the Nazis to turn people in.
It’s like NATO taught entire generations about the Holocaust so they could learn how to deny it while downplaying their own crimes. We’ve seen how it gets wielded against the Soviets, China, and now Palestine. Pure crocodile tears to justify their actions.
There’s fucking holocaust memorials even in places that had 0 to do with it, propaganda runs deep.
Genocides in the Americas: dgaf
Genocides in Africa: dgaf
Genocides in Asia: what’s a Manchuria?
Genocide against other Europeans: never again (limited to sufficiently white victims only, terms and conditions apply)
FINALLY GOT ACCEPTED FOR 2 AUDIOBOOK NARRATIONS WOO
mods when a kraut is aggro 24/7:
mods when a poc is anything but 100% polite and deferential:
I’ve been pleasantly surprised by the popular support though. General site exceeding my expectations.
The mods are so full of shit it’s unreal
I posted the below at https://hexbear.net/comment/7478768 for general feedback if anyone is still looking at that thread, but I wanted to specifically solicit advice from empoc comrades and have a discussion here: ———————————————————————————————-———————————————————————————————-———————————————————————————————-———————————————————————————————-
Alright since this has gotten so much visibility I feel out of my depth and am opting for transparency in part because it’d be good to maybe have some perspective. I don’t know if this is settled or if we as a site are going to have to hammer out some more differences later. But, SEG made a new account and DM’d me an apology. I’m going to withhold her new username and the text of the apology, partially out out of respect for the privacy of a DM, partially because I have very high standards for apologies and feel she did actually clear them and meant what she said enough to deserve that grace.
However, I’ll post my response publicly because it expresses that this problem is bigger than us and I’m at my limit and don’t know what more to do. Constructive advice/input welcome.
Wow. I appreciate the apology. This has been stressful but I’m glad you’re getting the beginnings of some growth out of it, as my goal is never “winning the argument” so much as “solving the problem”. I’m not going to block you right now. I’m heartened that this has given you pause and made you reflect a bit, and I hope that proves fruitful. With this message of yours, I’m willing to optimistically consider my beef with you settled, and I’d rather not block unless I feel I actually have to.
As far as further discussion… honestly, I’m half interested and I also half want to just not deal with this anymore. Just with what flack I have gotten I’m tired. And these problems are bigger than you and me. I feel like we maybe need to have a site-wide struggle session about the ways that white femininity has been and continues to be wielded as a weapon against racialized and colonized people of all genders including men and the ways that impacts our spaces, but I don’t know if we actually have enough remaining active POC users with the bandwidth to field that. I suspect if we did we’d lose a large portion in the process. And then on top of that these are merely reflections of broader cultural trends and it quickly feels like too much. I have been getting supportive DMs agreeing with what I said and expounding upon those ideas further from poc who are too drained to say it publicly and expose themselves to the inevitable backlash, and while I could take point on conveying and synthesizing those arguments, that also exposes me a lot and in a way hamstrings my ability to argue because I can’t understand my comrades’ perspectives as well as they do. I don’t think I am qualified or in a good position to take point on that.
So I’m not sure what to do right now. Maybe I’ll ask around, and maybe more to follow.
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Really, what do we do? Is it worth making more out of this and trying for a culture shift, or should I and we just drop it and resort to heavy use of blocks so we don’t have to see this sort of thing as much? I don’t think the former can be done without multiple people getting involved, but it would be cool if it happened. I know a lot of us are tired and rather doomer about the state of white leftism but I’m not personally ready to give up on them yet.
but I don’t know if we actually have enough remaining active POC users with the bandwidth to field that. I suspect if we did we’d lose a large portion in the process.
I genuinely dont want to discourage you because there’s like a 1% chance for actual improvement (which a large part of being a leftist is digging into that 1% and trying to force it to grow) but more than site culture, the issue is the mods who are not interested in improving or doing self crit.
In the last thread, that mod claimed they totally won’t hold your interaction against you but as we’ve seen with the leaked messaged from the early zionism struggle sessions, they’re fucking lying.
If a million zionist struggle sessions during an ongoing genocide isnt enough to get the users and mods to act right, I dont think anything will. And more than that, I think most of them are happy when poc leave the site so they can have their white echo chamber
“If a million zionist struggle sessions during an ongoing genocide isnt enough to get the users and mods to act right, I dont think anything will. And more than that, I think most of them are happy when poc leave the site so they can have their white echo chamber”
And there it is. Even if a few would be swayed the majority would just go harder on their racism and white fragility. They are happy that this site gets whiter so they can be their mayo selves openly.
Hekkksbear core values: cracker, mayo and white
Hey
We’re queer, vegan crackers, mayos, and whites here, thank you very much
Yeah, I don’t want to sound hopeless and you’re right that perhaps there is a small chance for improvement. But we’ve also had a couple of meta megathreads trying to discuss/address POC issues sitewide and well… We can see just how far that’s gotten things.
Let’s not forget most white users here defended a white guy who called a group of black men the n slur with a hard r cause of his tourettes. Mind you the guy himself apologized. They still defended him and said he shouldn’t have had to apologize and called all poc who were even slightly uncomfortable ableist. Zionism might be the most obvious issue but its all race issues that they suck at and cant be trusted.
And those whites dont care about ableism and constantly do covid liberalism which is supposed against the core of conduct but reporting their posts to the plague rat mods does nothing
If a million zionist struggle sessions during an ongoing genocide isnt enough to get the users and mods to act right, I dont think anything will
Did something happen? I miss almost all the struggle sessions
You know, this would’ve been a complete nonissue had she inserted a “white” before the “men.” But alas, she is white herself and she does not understand (and perhaps refuses to understand given the subsequent crashout) that (half) joking about killing POC men as a white chick is a terrible look to put it incredibly lightly.
Another cracker to block.
Years ago I was surprised and perplexed about how KKKontrapointϟϟ, a trans woman, could have so little solidarity with the oppressed peoples of the world as to uncritically support HHillary KKKlinton.
I am coming to understand more and more how that supposed contradiction is no contradiction. To many white women, be they cis or trans, “liberation” just means they get to be at the top.
This is not a new revelation. I’m not the first to figure it out. Plenty of people were saying it long before even my parents were born. It’s still frustrating that it’s still going on
the missing piece is class. she hates other white transfems too
The queen gets to be as powerful as a king, the maid, slaves and regular still live the same.
I feel like her videos werent all that groundbreaking besides her elaborate set design and costuming. She also did have some bad takes esp around neurodivergent people in her video about cringe culture.
She also just stopped producing work and released like 1 video a year that was the equivalent of “this could be sent in an email” while still having a massive online patron following.
Shes the result of letting the Internet do its magic and siloing you into a echo chamber of your own design.
my youngest brother called out a little white devil spelling the N word in their ASL class. we got a voicemail about the incident. proud of the boy!
