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?

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?

Follow Lemmy TOS and Community Guidelines. Non negotiable. This is the bedrock and mods will make decisions with this always in mind.
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.
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.
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.
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?

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.
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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EM_POC Weekly Thread 1/6/25 (hexbear.net)

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Hello em_poc hexbears! I'm so sorry this thread is late today, totally my bad. I hope the new year has been good for you all so far! Any plans, goals, resolutions? I'm going to try to read more theory this year!

As always, this thread is EM POC ONLY

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[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Lying in bed and can't get back to sleep

I've never really articulated this thought out loud so here's to trying

As a mixed-race person I've always felt a bit more isolated than my other POC friends who identify as one ethnicity and obviously belong to that ethnic group. I present as maybe white-passing with an Asian tint [ethnically ambiguous].

Just kind of envious of most people, white, POC or otherwise who have a shared cultural background to fall back on, while I just have my general interests, leftyness, and dirt-poor upbringing as points of conversation.

Any other Hexbears in this boat?

[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Half white, half Filipino here. I've found more acceptance among non-whites than whites throughout my lifetime. Especially for family. Whites will never accept you as one of them because they believe in bullshit one-drop rules. It's caused a lot of stress for me because I get this weird imposter syndrome where I can't tell if I did something wrong or if whitey is just being racist.

I mostly regret not speaking any of the Filipino languages and the disconnect it's caused, separating me from that part of myself. My Spanish is shit, but I can understand certain things more than Tagalog (where I understand nothing at all). But in the Philippines, Spanish is the language of former oppressors, so AFAIK it's fallen out of use. There's so much I don't know about the homeland because I was raised outside of it among white devils.

Another struggle is identifying with other minorities in the US. There's generational trauma in my family due to colonialism, but it's nothing like the slavery experienced by black Americans. It does have some overlap with what Native Americans went through, but then their genocide was so thorough and all-encompassing it's not comparable. We have more in common with Latin America than we do with China and Vietnam, while also not being part of Latin America. So there's all these groups where our problems intersect, yet those problems are different enough you can't find the support needed (maybe I'm not phrasing this right).