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🏳️‍⚧️✊🏿LexiTheWulf✊🏿🏳️‍🌈

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🏳️‍⚧️✊🏿LexiTheWulf✊🏿🏳️‍🌈 @lexithewulf.bsky.social · 11h

Nothing pisses me off more than being deliberately ignored. when people give me the cold shoulder I naturally get angrier and angrier.

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🏳️‍⚧️✊🏿LexiTheWulf✊🏿🏳️‍🌈 @lexithewulf.bsky.social · 12h

The amount of conservatives that are upset with this Dungeons and Dragons picture is wild. I swear to God these people hate joy and are evil.

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🏳️‍⚧️✊🏿LexiTheWulf✊🏿🏳️‍🌈 @lexithewulf.bsky.social · 12h

But me and them split ways earlier, when I and another individual called them out for posting giantess oppai loli futas and their only response to the allegations was "SO!"

🏳️‍⚧️✊🏿LexiTheWulf✊🏿🏳️‍🌈 @lexithewulf.bsky.social · 12h

also that guy was racist. As they are still presently in the size community of VR specifically the conservative ones and is in plenty of groups of white people who still say the n word unapologetically.

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🏳️‍⚧️✊🏿LexiTheWulf✊🏿🏳️‍🌈 @lexithewulf.bsky.social · 12h

That moment stuck with me because it’s how racism works most of the time, not through slurs or shouting, but through indifference. Through that quiet refusal to listen. Through the way white people make our grief or anger into something they need to balance out or justify.

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🏳️‍⚧️✊🏿LexiTheWulf✊🏿🏳️‍🌈 @lexithewulf.bsky.social · 12h

And the white owner overheard me and, instead of trying to understand, just said, “Well, I don’t get that day off either.” in a dismissive tone.

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🏳️‍⚧️✊🏿LexiTheWulf✊🏿🏳️‍🌈 @lexithewulf.bsky.social · 12h

I still think about something that happened at a Size VR event. I was talking about Juneteenth, about how angry it makes me that most working-class Black people still have to work that day, that the people the holiday is for don’t even get the dignity of rest.

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🏳️‍⚧️✊🏿LexiTheWulf✊🏿🏳️‍🌈 @lexithewulf.bsky.social · 12h

But even in “progressive” spaces, you have to navigate white fragility, people who say the right things but still need to be centered and comforted. That’s why I’m selective about who I let close.

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🏳️‍⚧️✊🏿LexiTheWulf✊🏿🏳️‍🌈 @lexithewulf.bsky.social · 12h

And for Black Progressives, it’s no easier. You can’t be close to white conservatives because their politics are built on denying your reality.

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🏳️‍⚧️✊🏿LexiTheWulf✊🏿🏳️‍🌈 @lexithewulf.bsky.social · 12h

Black conservatives might think they’ve found belonging, but what they’ve really found is conditional acceptance, a seat at the table that can be pulled away the moment they stop performing. The racism doesn’t go away.

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🏳️‍⚧️✊🏿LexiTheWulf✊🏿🏳️‍🌈 @lexithewulf.bsky.social · 12h

Even when they stand side by side ideologically, that white conservative will almost always still see the Black one as lesser, as someone who needs to “prove” themselves, someone who’s there on borrowed terms.

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🏳️‍⚧️✊🏿LexiTheWulf✊🏿🏳️‍🌈 @lexithewulf.bsky.social · 12h

A lot of people assume that shared politics create common ground. Like, if a Black conservative and a white conservative both believe the same things, they should get along, right? But that’s not how racism works.

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🏳️‍⚧️✊🏿LexiTheWulf✊🏿🏳️‍🌈 @lexithewulf.bsky.social · 12h

Something I’ve realized is that Black people are deeply limited in who we can safely connect with, not because we choose to be, but because of how racism shapes every interaction.

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🏳️‍⚧️✊🏿LexiTheWulf✊🏿🏳️‍🌈 @lexithewulf.bsky.social · 12h

why am I black angry at 3:00 in the morning

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Ricky @classes @rickyrad.bsky.social · Jul 18

Pondering.

Dark, late evening, mid-horizon, aerial setting with city lights sprawled across the scene. Macro Ricky is in a sitting, hugging knee, pose. He is staring down at the city, looking ponderously.

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🏳️‍⚧️✊🏿LexiTheWulf✊🏿🏳️‍🌈 @lexithewulf.bsky.social · 12h

Never trust a black person that won't say the word Nigga.

🏳️‍⚧️✊🏿LexiTheWulf✊🏿🏳️‍🌈 @lexithewulf.bsky.social · 12h

They’ll listen to a white person explain racism before they’ll sit and hear a Black person’s anger or exhaustion. They’ll validate each other for “trying,” while we’re left feeling like we have to walk on eggshells just to be heard.

🏳️‍⚧️✊🏿LexiTheWulf✊🏿🏳️‍🌈 @lexithewulf.bsky.social · 12h

The truth is that white fragility always takes priority. Even the kindest, most self-described “anti-racist” white people will instinctively center their feelings over Black truth.

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🏳️‍⚧️✊🏿LexiTheWulf✊🏿🏳️‍🌈 @lexithewulf.bsky.social · 12h

I can be talking about something that directly affects me, my safety, my lived experiences, and instead of listening, white people will derail the discussion. They’ll say I’m being “too harsh” or “divisive,” or they’ll disappear from the conversation completely because it’s “too negative.”

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🏳️‍⚧️✊🏿LexiTheWulf✊🏿🏳️‍🌈 @lexithewulf.bsky.social · 12h

The whole conversation stops being about the harm done to Black people and turns into managing their guilt or their need to be seen as “one of the good ones.”

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🏳️‍⚧️✊🏿LexiTheWulf✊🏿🏳️‍🌈 @lexithewulf.bsky.social · 12h

It doesn’t matter how “progressive” or “well-meaning” the white people involved are the moment they start to feel uncomfortable, everything shifts to protect their feelings.

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🏳️‍⚧️✊🏿LexiTheWulf✊🏿🏳️‍🌈 @lexithewulf.bsky.social · 12h

The only time they do listen is when a Black person is saying something anti-Black or self-hating, because it gives them permission to ignore the rest of us. They get to point and say, “See? That Black person doesn’t think it’s a problem, why do you?”

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🏳️‍⚧️✊🏿LexiTheWulf✊🏿🏳️‍🌈 @lexithewulf.bsky.social · 12h

As a Black person, one of the hardest things I’ve dealt with my entire life is not being listened to. White people rarely want to hear us especially when we talk about our own experiences with race or safety. our truth is inconvenient for them.

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🏳️‍⚧️✊🏿LexiTheWulf✊🏿🏳️‍🌈 @lexithewulf.bsky.social · 13h

looks like it's going to be another day where I can't sleep thinking too much about the friends that I used to have, I fucking hate people

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Spice🔞 @proofspice.bsky.social · Mar 5

SQUaWK!

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