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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?

  1. Follow Lemmy TOS and Community Guidelines. Non negotiable. This is the bedrock and mods will make decisions with this always in mind.

  2. 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.

  3. 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.

  4. 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.

  5. 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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[–] [email protected] 18 points 3 months ago

Hi everyone, just popping in this update for Mem's fundraiser, they need $363 more for movers and cleaners as they need to vacate their current living situation by the end of the month! Thank you all for the support meow-tankie

https://hexbear.net/post/4151798

[–] [email protected] 17 points 3 months ago (4 children)

Apparently in christmas day chuds spend all day infighting about demanding trump and elon to fire and deport all indian people

[–] [email protected] 21 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

It’s ok for literally everyone to be racist against Indians. Out in the open. Just say the wildest thing imaginable, as if you’re some fucking Victorian colonialist or mimicking ante-bellum speech, and people will just nod. Not even confined to chud or libs. It’s insane.

Now, of course, fuck Elon and Vamaswami, but jesus christ, at some point people need to realize being this hateful against people from the most populous country in the world doesn’t make a healthy world and literally every fiber of morality you hold dear, whether it’s political, racial, dietary, etc. means nothing if you’re such a racist piece of shit.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 3 months ago

I'll say, it's funny seeing them in real time put 2 and 2 together. They truly believed we're a meritocracy because they saw white people succeed and that was enough for them. Now they're told the same things they said about minorities, white people aren't good enough. I love it

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[–] [email protected] 16 points 3 months ago (4 children)

remember when people on hexbear this summer were saying every company in china is worker run now? remember the reasonable people getting ratioed? that was the moment i realized that this most of place is actually awful for having discussions about anything other then soviet history, not saying i dont think it can improve but god danm.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 3 months ago (2 children)

actually awful for having discussions about anything other then soviet history

Hexbear and other leftist spaces are not ready for some things I have to say because they're so hung up on Cold War history, which is incredibly Euro-centric. They generally have good opinions on Vietnam, for example, but then will have blind spots about how shitty the US was and the role its troops played in war crimes.

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 3 months ago (7 children)

other then soviet history

Not sure, while most people do have a negative view of corn-man-khrush because of the secret speech thats were most of the criticism ends

I dont see people talking much of the failures of brezhnev like backing ethiopia or they blame like 90% of the sino-soviet split on Mao

[–] [email protected] 12 points 3 months ago

or they blame like 90% of the sino-soviet split on Mao

which is WILD

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 3 months ago (1 children)

remember when people on hexbear this summer were saying every company in china is worker run now? remember the reasonable people getting ratioed?

I'm sorry but I don't recall something like that being said... closest was that China was cracking down on real estate capitalist looters, you know, taking gradual steps, but nothing ridiculous like that (I'm pretty sure Hexbear flipflops between doomer, bloomer, and "nothing really happens" a lot, so maybe there's a possibility something like that was said)

that was the moment i realized that this most of place is actually awful for having discussions about anything other then soviet history,

I mean, how would y'all know, regarding economic and foreign policy of Global South countries like China, and the other remaining socialist nations? Let alone anti-imperialist yet flawed, if not possibly progressive countries like the Sankara-inspired Sahel countries (at least Asante comments about them), Axis of Resistance in Middle East, and so forth

I mean, for Christ's sake, as much as the overall Hexbear community may suck, I really feel like this is just subtweeting about the news comm.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

https://hexbear.net/post/2412952

278 upbears

China has made all companies worker-controlled. I would show this article to anyone that claims otherwise. This is worker democracy. China is still a dictatorship of the proletariat.

direct quote from the post, and you can see dissenters getting ratioed

I mean, for Christ's sake, as much as the overall Hexbear community may suck, I really feel like this is just subtweeting about the news comm.

i mean ill openly criticize the news com no worries there, its basically not usable anymore (for me)

[–] [email protected] 15 points 3 months ago

Merry Christmas to all of you comrades who celebrate!

Hope you and your families are all doing well. I'm glad this space for us exists and thanks to all of you who participate in and defend it.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

Hiya folks

I'm an office worker from the Caribbean, living in a Western country. Spending lots of time with the family around the holidays atm. Life isnt always good- right now its nice though classic

[–] [email protected] 12 points 3 months ago

Life isnt always good- right now its nice though

Life do be like that, at times...

[–] [email protected] 14 points 3 months ago (2 children)

im thinking of how few spaces there are online that are predominately poc/non western and explicitly communist/left. its a shame. but i like to believe most poc leftists are doing irl work. at least thats my personal experience. social media is a white man's kingdom

[–] [email protected] 13 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

"As someone who uses social media, I have found it to be a vital and efficient resource for reaching out to others and educating communities. However, the Internet is still largely governed by the same racist and sexist rules that structure the “real” world. One could even argue that the Internet gives white supremacy full access to black activists and their thoughts, which is perhaps one of the largest downsides of using the Internet to engage in racial justice work."

"it's becoming increasingly obvious that social media is beginning to carry out the legacy of the American dream in insidious ways that both distract us through, and perpetuate the seductions of, white supremacist capitalism."

Aph Ko (and also why the great firewall might possibly be one of the best things in china)

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[–] [email protected] 13 points 3 months ago

my most unpopular opinion is that non-donated human hair wigs are tacky. i think paying hundreds of dollars to a Korean owned company that harvested hair from mostly low castes people in south asia who have few other options is TACKY!!! its WIERD actully.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 3 months ago (1 children)

I saw my grandma and the rest of my family, it was nice seeing them. We had

cw: meattamales and pozole

I dunno, it was just nice being seeing them, holidays and stuff just a lot more lonely now that my dog and my mom gone since last year

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[–] [email protected] 13 points 3 months ago

gonna get high and watch drag race with my loverrrrrrrr

[–] [email protected] 12 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)
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[–] [email protected] 11 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Im feeling happy today. Hope everyone has a good day or night -wherever you are kirby-wave

[–] [email protected] 10 points 3 months ago

i had a great day!!

[–] [email protected] 11 points 3 months ago

I want to get away from everything. I hate that I have so many people in my life that have to talk about things being woke. And its not even white people.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Ready to finish up this final stretch of the holidays. My schedule has been all types of screwed up.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 3 months ago

Working everyday right now. Will get a day off on the 26th after two weeks so that’s good lol. Have relatives coming over. Should be nice.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 3 months ago (1 children)

i shouldve listened to my friend. hexbear people are white chauvinists and many of them dont even know it. why are there unironic "leftists" here complaining about "idpol".

[–] [email protected] 8 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

It’s actually ridiculous lol

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 3 months ago

Think it's gonna be a stress free holidays for me, no relatives coming over and gonna be eating warm meals like oatmeal as much as I want comfy-cool

[–] [email protected] 8 points 3 months ago

Yesterday was a waste—I got nothing done.

But in the quiet I schemed and planned. My myriad Machiavellian machinations are now set in motion and soon, they shall bear fruit. I will rise above it all and claim my destiny as the god of a new world!

Thats it. Im the badguy. No more capitalism for you hexbear.

On a serious note. Yesterday was chill. Barley slept today but its ok because I got shit to do.

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