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Ethnic Minorities and People of Color

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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.
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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Ethnic Minorities and People of Color BiWeekly Thread 15/09/2025 and 22/09/2025 (hexbear.net)

submitted 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) by thelastaxolotl@hexbear.net [M] to c/em_poc@hexbear.net

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Hello nerds kirby-wave hope you all have a good next week

Remember no crackers

anti-cracker-aktion qin-shi-huangdi-fireball

It was pretty funny Kirk got shot

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[+] vegeta1@hexbear.net 18 points 11 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (3 children)

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[–] la_tasalana_intissari_mata@hexbear.net 15 points 11 months ago

something that happened 400 years ago and is part of the past

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[–] Lussy@hexbear.net 14 points 11 months ago*

Poc are getting the brunt of the fascism in America, not white people. This is just white centricism

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[–] CommunistCuddlefish@hexbear.net 12 points 11 months ago (1 child)

The only way I have been able to make sense of white people's double standards when it comes to atrocities our governments commit domestically vs abroad is to conclude that the very root of their problem is many of them are fundamentally incapable of seeing nonwhite people as human beings.

text referencing graphic imagery, war crimes

Normal person when watching videos of people crying over the corpses of their family who was just murdered by a bomb because America decided to do foreignpolicy: I feel this pain like that were my aunt, and I hate the murderers on their behalf with the intensity I would hate someone who murdered my own family member.

White person watching videos of people crying over their murdered family members' corpses: Ok we gotta plug this into a flow chart to decide whether we have empathy or not. What color are the victims? What religion are the victims? Who killed them? What color and religion are the people who killed them? Which political party is currently in charge and tentatively culpable? Can we come up with an excuse for why this was just an unfortunate accident and keep doing what we're doing?

I can say this confidently because I have so frequently seen white people glazing politicians with the blood of millions on their hands. If they actually cared about other people, they would feel the hatred I feel anytime I see a "wholesome" picture of a smiling Bush, or a "wholesome" meme about who charming and folksy and unthreatening Biden is. If they actually cared, they would view this glazing as as distasteful and morally repugnant as if someone were sharing memes about how wholesome Hitler and Goebbels were.

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[–] CommunistCuddlefish@hexbear.net 11 points 11 months ago (1 child)

Exactly. They were already gearing up to do it for Trump when he had General Qassem Soleimani assassinated, saying he was finally "presidential". They will do it with Trump.

Fucking Ezra Klein was out praising Charlie Kirk. There is no fascist too monstrous for these liberals to cozy up to, because at the end of the day they're all on the same western chauvinist white supremacist team.

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