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Hello nerds 
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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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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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What even is Yakub?
a guy who the nation of Islam believe created white people based on the prophet Yaqob (Jacob)
Yeah what the other person said, that shit goes very deep and has crazy “lore” and you can easily spend hours going down the rabbit hole of tricknology. the most important thing about yakub and tricknology that is very often overlooked is that at its core it’s just trying to rationalize and put into context black suffering. Many NOI didn’t fully believe the story but used it as a way to discuss race relations
I'm so sorry to ask this, but I've been trying to find an answer and have not. Can I get a run-down on what makes Yakub-posting so bad? The NOI itself is obviously problematic, the concepts the Yakub myth is based on are phrenological and race/bioessentialist absurdity, I see that. But that point about "NOI didn't fully believe the story but used it as a way to discuss race relations" is pretty clear; people who had that exact kind of 19th century "scientific" racism violently imposed upon them grappling with the concepts underlying it and talking about their suffering. Like, while I would not do it and am no fan of the NOI, I refuse to condemn any black person who uses that language to express their pain about what white people have done to them.
I don't use it because I'm not black, and I have some discomfort with the false history and. The possible explanations I could come up with from my searching about why it's problematic are:
I was walking with a then-friend (white) many years ago and we saw a Black Israelite preaching in the street about how white people were created by the devil or something. I didn't grasp exactly what he said but it sounded similar. She bristled at the "reverse racism". I was more nonchalant about it but still uncomfortable. I would be utterly shocked if "yakubposting is racist against white people" is the problem with yakubposting.
it looks like 4channers picked up Yakub and were Yakubposting to be racist against black people, mocking a story that only existed because of how brutally black people are oppressed in the first place. But are people here yakubposting to mock black people? Or are they doing it to mock oppressors?
So, I'm confused, and would like to learn what it is I'm missing here.
I don’t know, I couldn’t tell you i’m not black. None of my friends have said they think it’s racist for whatever that’s worth.