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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.
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?
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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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The world: never stops reminding you that you're black and acts like thats a bad thing
Me: ok i'm black and thats a good thing
The world: hate yourself more
Maybe it's because I don't talk to many people, but I've never seen anyone hate on a black person for enjoying their blackness. Even with people that I know were racist, I saw that interacting with highly self loving black people would seem to put the racist people in a nice groove. But maybe it was mostly amicability, I'm not sure.
Not saying that hate on black people's self-love doesn't happen. Now that you say it, I definitely believe it does. Just saying it's strange to me that this is a real thing. Having pride in your ethnicity is respectable.
I've seen it all the time. Hell I don't just mean the backlash to black folks being more than caricatures in television or just standing up for emselves. I've seen it especially towards BW. When some show confidence in themselves they're seen as arrogance or something to that effect. That is a double whammy with misogyny. Hell a lot of racism is designed to erode your sense of self and self worth and you can gain self hate or internalised racism. So even if it isn't direct it will still attack it. Hell look at how Chinese showing a sense of pride for what they've overcome gets called? Han supremacy by westerners. Self love can lead to knowledge of self and eventually preservation measures if a system is against your kind
Why specically "Han?"
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Han_chauvinism I'm thinking this is part of where they get it from.