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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?

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?

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

  2. 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.

  3. 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.

  4. 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.

  5. 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?

What can I post?

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[โ€“] SevenSkalls@hexbear.net 18 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Got offered a candidacy for PSL. Guess this is actually happening, I'm doing the joining an organization thing. Immediately I've been invited to multiple events, like some class on modern events, and some event for the Bernie's tour to start converting progressive libs, to immigration "know your rights" classes and outreach.

It's weird timing with what's going on now, with Trump locking people up for thought crimes and such. They're deporting people who look like me, not even being legal is protecting people. I'm fully legal, but how long will that stop them? Or hell, they could lock up my family in retribution (not to doxx myself too much but we're not all from this country). I haven't even done anything yet, I'm not a leader to make an example of, but am already a little nervous. I know that's why they do their horrible stuff, to discourage people like me from joining together so we look out for ourselves instead of for each other.

Hope I don't come off as some fake leftist or coward, it's just thoughts I've had as the invites have rolled in. And I'm hoping getting these thoughts out will be like an exhale before rolling up my sleeves to finally do actual work (other than the noble art of posting, of course).

You may doubt yersel but I'd argue going through with the PSL candidacy is worth it, if you can help some people there.