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Hello friends, i hope you all have a great next week 
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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?
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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.
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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.
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 always feel bad watching my wife interact with foreigners who can’t conceive the thought that there are people of East Asian descent living in Guatemala.
“How can you be Latina when you’re Asian?”
“But you have an Asian last name! You can’t be Hispanic!”
The idea that “Latino=mestizo” is an obnoxious one and leads to dumbass questions like that.
tangentially related but the idea of someone asking your race like that is so fucking rude, especially if its a stranger doing it. no one does that here. no one outside america and perhaps some european countries do that. absurd.
I've been asked "So what are you?" too many times I just respond "Half me mum, half my dad."
I am a Dougla, but I generally "pass" as Black. However, it's not too uncommon for me to get frustrating comments like, "Are you mixed?" or "What's your nationality?" I find that people ask me this not just because of how I look but because of how I act (I've been told that I'm not stereotypically Black. All this shit is irritating.)
An odd story I have about this is I was in an Uber some time ago, and the driver told me he was failing a class in college. I asked him what school he goes to, and he said the school that my grandmother is a professor at. Not only that, but he said that he was failing in the subject she teaches, so I asked him, "Who's your professor?"
He said, "Some Indian lady."
I then said, "Is her last name [insert surname]?"
He said, "Yeah!"
I said, "That's my grandmother."
Something about that made him shocked, and I could tell because I look more Black than my grandmother does.
Thankfully, though, he didn't follow up with weird questions about "where I'm from," and this was a whiteboi, too.
WHY DO THEY DO THIS? IT'S A WIDELY KNOWN FAUX PAS. AJDHIDIEKSSHOAAP
That's like when I was in Kindergarten, my teacher assumed I was Inuit and marked that down on my information. Because this was the '90s, information was slow and done through paper. So for all throughout elementary school, I kept having to change it and tell them "No, I do not qualify for any Native American programs because I'm not Native American."
Or people assume I speak Spanish (such as my high school Spanish teacher). Or this one time a guy was trying to get my attention by saying "Hey black kid!" Since I am not black, I assumed he was talking to someone else. People are so fucking weird about people whose ethnicity they can't figure out, which changes how they interact with them.
Some people do get it but others you feel like interacting with a broken record