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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A former coworker of mine would call the holiday season 'racists season', since all the racist fucks would come out of the woodworksand say horrific things. Looks like its racist season has official begun, had some old wretch and her large adult son flip out about my name tag (I have a very Latino name) after saying it a bunch of times and then go through a speedrun of the usual shit, focusing on my name, 'you speak English well' before flipping out about some nonsenical conversation that prevented me from offering 'good service', I didn't speak to anyone before addressing them it was weird af and then while they left they started the 'we can't understand you' bs. A few customers later some old lady rants at me about the usual 'I don't know what's going on, all they do is hire illegals' while storming off since her return went poorly.
Anyway, I caught up with another former coworker since I'm on the job hunt (don't want to stick around for racists season if I don't need to) and I found out I'm apparently blacklisted at the local college between some whistleblowing I did at my old school and probably my tiny bit of student organizing. That's good to know, I thought such things only lasted 6-12yrs or so.
I did manage to find some teach English place online I may look at since I actually have a TESOL cert I never used. I absolutely need to get out of this job, I'm lucky to have it, but holy shit if its not a recreation of clerks its every 5th customer is a retailhell story.
What holiday season is it, anyway, in September?
Christmas already, have decorations and nonsense anyway.
In the near dystopic future, holiday decorations never go down and stay up all 12 months of the year, and the only music that plays in stores is off beat non-popular Xmas tunes, minus that Mariah Carey one.
The war on KKKhristmas will continue until the illegal occupation of autumn ceases
Even at best, the longest-running Christmas in a country only starts at September, so that'd be an extreme change... then again, I don't think much of us put down our Christmas trees down, after tis done
Lol, wanted to be dramatic and release some steam with some doomy futurecasting. Have all sorts of non-work family trauma related to the holidays, so this just amplifies it all. I don't celebrate much of anything, too expensive.
There are Xmas themed stores that are open year round, they're terrible lurid places of wanton consumerism to visit.