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Ethnic Minorities and People of Color
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Official Title of this Community: Ethnic Minorities and People of Color
Why is the title different?
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What is this place? A safe space for underrepresented peoples and peoples of color to talk, chill, and vibe.
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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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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.
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- Anything you think is relevant to the mission of this community. Things will evolve over time.
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Ready to finish up this final stretch of the holidays. My schedule has been all types of screwed up.
Real. Between insufferable in-laws and their unparented children providing constant unholy-o'clock wake-up calls, they are really making me backslide on my "I need to have more grace for kids and the literally-unbelievable amounts of noise they make" bit. Like, holy shit talk about a personal sterilization advertisement...
On the topic of having grace for kids, I also need to do the same, but you ever get triggered by white children who are already showing signs of the bigotry that their parents have imprinted upon them? I really don't have any patience for it, because I know that they're 100% going to grow up to be nasty adults.
i used to be around white children a lot for my moms job and for babysitting. when they are under id say.. 5 i dont mind it. like the kid is asking whats that to the hair on my head, listen im gonna nicely explain to the kid that cant yet speak full sentences that thats my hair, right?.... once they get to ehhh 7 thats when i lose my patience because tell me why these little white children will referrer to me as "hey black lady" or "the black person" i swear to got it will make you want to cuss out a 4th grader
To me, that's a "self"-report on the part of the parents that there are NO Black folk in community with them; 'cause if there WERE, that little snotnosed crackerspawn would know better than to refer to us as "hey black", give a damn how old they are.
yes, white british chilren can be so insufferable and are also probably the most likely source of slurs in daily life
Oh all the goddamn time. Praise god that's not an issue with the inlaws, I think I'd have crashed out and fucked up the relationship already-- but it is infuriating just how frequently I see that kind of shit for where I live.