em_poc
Official Title of this Community: Ethnic Minorities and People of Color
Why is the title different?
We like to have fun here.
What is this place? A safe space for underrepresented peoples and peoples of color to talk, chill, and vibe.
What are the basic rules of the community?
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Follow Lemmy TOS and Community Guidelines. Non negotiable. This is the bedrock and mods will make decisions with this always in mind.
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This community is for ethnic minorities and people of color. This is a safe space where such people can freely discuss their struggles, insight, and thoughts without fear. If you are not, we respectfully ask you do not post or comment here. A future community will be established to allow for racial discussions with a mixed userbase. However, remember, comments here must still respect Lemmy TOS and Community Guidelines.
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Irony Racism is still racism. Racism is bad m'kay? We will treat irony racism and bad faith racist satire as racism. Will wield the ban hammer accordingly.
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No sectarianism: This is an identity channel not a channel for you all to complain about why XYZ isn't the "one true leftism". Take that to another place.
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Stupidpol is not allowed. Stupidpol is class reductionist. We are an identity community. Thinking like stupidpol ignores the struggles of the oppressed, their voices, and their need for unique support. Nothing says oppression more than someone saying that the identity you have is "not real" and that if you only thought like them you'd see what your "real" identity is. Mods reserve the right to ban users and content who promote stupidpol, stupidpol memes, and other class reductionist thinking.
FAQ
I don't look XYZ and/or sometimes I can pass as white so I don't know if I can post here. Can I?
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This place is for ethnic minorities and people of color. This includes those of mixed heritage and those who may be "white" but are of an ethnicity that is a minority in their area (i.e. Kurds, etc) If you've experienced oppression due to your identity that is not based on sexual / gender identification, you are welcome here.
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Moreover, for our American audience, we have people from around the world who are "white" but are oppressed due to being a minority in their country. They are and should be welcomed here.
What can I post?
- Anything you think is relevant to the mission of this community. Things will evolve over time.
- Topics and things relevant to EM and POC.
Suggested Posts
- [People of Spice]: Food recipes so others can taste your culture
- [Theory]: Vid/podcasts/websites discussing issues relevant to identity, anti-imperialism, etc
- [News]: Vids/podcasts/websites that talk about current events relevant to EM and POC
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I'm in university studying Spanish and Romance Languages and in written Spanish if you want to denote gender ambiguity you can use the 'x' letter, @ symbol or any other generic enough symbol. The gender in Romance languages is just a syntactical thing (you can call it even or odd, or high and low, the gendering is arbitrary). It's like saying the kanji for man in Japanese is 男 which is a combination of the 'rice' edit: 'Field' and 'power' radicals which gives you an insight into Japanese cultural development but doesn't go any further than that.
People don't care if you use gender neutral pronouns in writing or in speech though most spanish speakers just default to the generic masculine out of habit when speaking or specifically use the feminine, though in written Spanish I always try to make an effort to be inclusive as much as possible. The only people who care are settlers and conservatives who unfortunately infest América Latina who use gender neutrality as "erasing linguistic cultural heritage" or whatever nonsense they say to cover up their transphobia.
English has different gendered words for actor and actress, afaik romance languages do too (in spanish it is el actor and la actriz) so it's not like some languages are free from cisnormative gender fuckery.
Hearing someone say latin-"x" in English can be jarring to hear though, that's as much as I'll say.
Here's this nice site I found that sums it up.
Again I don’t know Spanish but doesnt Latine make more sense than Latinx? English uses the letter X more as a symbol than as an actual letter (see Elon Musk’ obsession with it for example), while Spanish uses it much more in daily conversation. So using X to replace the gendered part of Latino/Latina seems pretty neo-colonialist to me. It just doesn’t seem right for American English to be dictating how Spanish is spoken even if it’s for the purpose of inclusivity of all things. Look what happened with the word Indian, it’s offensive but not using it can also be offensive. The biggest problem is that the native speakers didn’t get a choice in what they wanted to be called. And while Spanish is not a native language (especially in Al Andalus), Spanish speakers do face discrimination for their language. I don’t know
your racist if you use Latinx, you’re homophobic if you use Latino. I just try to default to Hispanic as much as possible. Which offends Portuguese speakers, so then I just use Latin, which doesn’t make sense because then we are just talking about Italian and I don’t give a shit about Italians. Overall I find it very confusing.
I don't think it's such a big deal, I think anglos/English natives just don't know they're not supposed to pronounce the -x part so they get confused. Latin American works fine in English but most Latin Americans don't see themselves as Latin* but their national identity as Mexicans, Ecuadorians, Costa Ricans, Cubans etc. And there are white latinos like that German guy who lives in Argentina with a lot of WW2 memorabilia.
It's weird in Spain since the national identity is Spanish but the national language is castelllano or the Spanish dialect of Spain.