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?
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.
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.
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.
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?
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.
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.
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Remember, EM POC only!
Good morning, afternoon, or evening depending on where you are, comrades.
I finally reached my goal for c/mutual_aid. It was scary as hell, but we're here now. Thank you to everyone who gave support.
I'm looking forward to having some more chill EM POC vibes today!
Y'all ever notice how when you ideologically begin to break away, when you draw out a line in the sand between your beliefs and what a cracker wants to impose on you, that very same moment, you suddenly have no agency of your own; some nefarious other must be paying for your viewpoint; some enemy to the cracker must be using you as a puppet?
Tangentially related, you ever notice how those 'nefarious others' become white for just long enough to the persecuting cracker to imply that you're cooning out for them, despite the fact that these very same settler interlocutors will be the first in line to start throwing out 'Mongol', 'Asiatic horde' or 'Winnie the Pooh'-related racial slander literally any other time? Ion't know; something about that is funnier than an orgy in a clown car to me. I'm gonna start callin that the "Uhuru 3 Effect"; 'cause damn if these crackers haven't started sounding like the way the feds went after the Uhuru house.
Y'all ever notice how when you ideologically begin to break away, when you draw out a line in the sand between your beliefs and what a cracker wants to impose on you, that very same moment, you suddenly have no agency of your own; some nefarious other must be paying for your viewpoint; some enemy to the cracker must be using you as a puppet?
It's a license for Global North and comprador well-off liberals to rationalize their way of living and resulting smug bourgeois ideology against other people dissenting against them, lest the risk of empathizing with them...
Because if they truly understand how much of a little Eichmann they are, for parrotting the ideology of, if not materially supporting the current neoliberal stage of capitalism, neo-imperialism, and cultural reaction, they would more likely despair away in doomerism and fascism, than lay any hope in socialism.
After all,
As someone with a mental illness, I notice this a lot. All of a sudden when you say something whitey disagrees with, they will say you don't actually believe what you're saying, that it's just mental illness making things out to be worse than they are. Like if I say republicans are not good people, including family members (not like libs are any better, but, y'know). You point how they still vote for ghoulish policies and you're the bad guy trying to divide the country due to Russian propaganda targeting crazy people like yourself.
This happened with one of my uncle's friends. They've been friends for over 40 years since college. My uncle's friend sent him an e-mail one day about how he didn't want to associate with anyone anymore who supports Trump, doesn't believe global warming is real, is racist, or homophobic. My uncle said his friend went crazy and hopes his mental problems can improve. The so-called liberals in my family agreed with my uncle.
Just no. Fuck 'em. If you support racists because they offer lower taxes, you're a racist. And racists are evil. I don't give a shit if you send me a birthday card. When my mom passes away, I have no intention of sticking around these people. I agree with my uncle's friend. Mental illness ain't got nothing to do with it. These people deserve all the hatred and vitriol we can muster. They actively and knowingly make the world a worse place, but think you can still have a positive relationship with the people affected by their decisions.
Holy shit, you're cooking! 
I have these kinds of thoughts too fucking often.
In Mexico i seen it a lot with panistas whitexicans saying the most brown/indigenous people that support the president only do it because he pays them via the social programs, like they are a bribe. like they cant see that maybe 12 year of PAN presidency made people dislike them
I told my partner about Hexbear. It went really well. They seem pretty cool with tankies. It's kind of wild to have someone who appreciates you for who you are and enjoys hearing things like Death to Amerikkka.
One of us, one of us, one of us!
Another one falls for the Putin-CPC funded tankie propaganda 
What did they think would happen? I truly am curious
Marjorie Gamer Greene
Before: The leopards definitely won't eat my face.
After: The leopards ate my face, WTF
Sometimes, I just wake up in the morning, and my "I Can't Stand Fucking CracKKKers" meter is going off the charts.
Might this be one of those mornings? 
I think the worst part about being mixed-race is the white portion of your family are walking, talking microaggressions. Just a barrage of shit you have to deal with internally because you have to save energy for arguments against things so fundamentally wrong they must be shut down immediately lest they fester into something worse.
Just so tiresome and I wish I could just leave.
Has anyone else on yer family tried to deal with the other kkkrakkkas side of the family?
No because the ones who aren't fascist sympathizers are civility libs 😑
Unfortunately I don't have much contact with the non-white side since our dad was a major piece of shit so we're only now getting to know one another as adults.
First month back in classes down. Five more to go til I've got at least some kind of degree.
Freiza just wants to be taller. Hes a petty asshole but honestly let him have this one
Relate. My last comment where I said I'm 6'5" on c/badposting was a total fucking lie. I actually can't even reach the top shelf because I'm a foot below that.
I'm an inch shorter than you
🥺
Wish granted.
another cracker found on some "you can't have white culture if you were born in africa!" 
"There is nothing wrong with singing 'kill the Boer, kill the farmer.'" -- Julius Malema
Relax, edgelord. It’s called Wholesome humor.
Good morning nerds 
Magandang umaga din!
Doled out my two week notice at this crummy job and they immediately hired my replacement.
They have an MCSE cert and management is showering them with respect and they're even being paid more than me
I'm fighting the urge to wipe my laptop and create the biggest information vacuum the department has ever seen.
I hope the company folds harder than fresh laundry.
My job with the transit agency can't happen any sooner. I want to pull a 4 hour notice but I need these knuckleheads for employment verification in the future and I can't risk nuking my finances because despite everything I still need the money
I'm also having the worst adhd meltdown ever since ever
I'm fighting the urge to wipe my laptop and create the biggest information vacuum the department has ever seen.
If they can't walk it back to you then do it
The car place I'm going to is owned by a (assumingly) working class white man, which to me screams trump supporter or conservative for convince. I'm using this time to practice talking with different individuals, and also not making assumptions, but when it's just me in a place like that I get so stressed out.
The car place I'm going to is owned by a (assumingly) working class white man
Working class... does this guy mainly work for a wage/salary, or on his petty property? Get it straight!
If it is his petty property, he is probably one of the settler-colonial petit bourgeois USonian, the main demographic of Trump
Ooh good point. It seemed he both owns the place and does the work too but he has at least 1 other worker so he's petty b
"Crackers be like, 'why you so angry?'
"Well that's a stupid-assed question, trick; slavery." -- Zack Fox
There's nothing funnier to me than foreign crackers understanding less about why a Black subject-of-empire would despise them and everything they believe in than a domestic one. Even moreso when they just can't bring their energy or their badly-thought-out justifications and just try to hold the last word while silencing you.
tl;dr the Belgian, the French, the Dutch, the German, the British, and the Spaniard at the very least don't deserve opinions on anything with global affect; ESPECIALLY not if they did what they did in antiquity and support Israel now.
https://apnews.com/article/mike-lawler-blackface-congress-election-d4c0a6d80844c48b0860892c1ffa0037
These politicians have more of a chance of wearing blackface than getting good long lasting legislation through. 
Wishful thinking, but it'd be cool if this tanks his chances enough that he takes his ads off the air. Then again it'd barely be a dent in the sea of frothing NY fash running for office talking about securing the borders and working with the police.
feeling sleepy and nervous but today should go just fine
Hope it all goes well
A comrade got lightly hit by a car but besides that the day was PERFECT. AMAZING TURNOUT!!!
How do you get lightly hit by a car
it was slow moving into the martial as she blocked it from like hitting people, we were like 30 seconds from them being able to go,guy makes eye contact with her, then drives into her, banged her shin, she kicked it, they accelerated, she jumped out of the way.
guy makes eye contact with her, then drives into her
Every day I'm forced to confront the fact that humanity is a critical mass of ghouls at this point
i got a cold on the first week of my internship 
rip
