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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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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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Hello all! @[email protected] is taking a well-deserved break so I'll be posting the mega in the foreseeable future. How are we all doing? I truly can't believe it's almost 2025.

REMEMBER, EM POC ONLY!!!

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[–] [email protected] 25 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

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Mood from whoever posted this a while ago


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[ Last updated December 20 ]

(work in progress 🚧)

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[–] [email protected] 22 points 2 months ago (1 children)

i am so, so done with this site. feeling very tempted to leave but i’ve got to hang out for the sake of my em_poc and fat and disabled comrades but ughhhhh

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[–] [email protected] 21 points 2 months ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 13 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Lmao what are these? They look friend-shaped but I doubt you're supposed to take them as pets.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (3 children)
[–] [email protected] 12 points 2 months ago

omg they form cuddle puddles to sunbathe

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[–] [email protected] 20 points 2 months ago (4 children)

Apologies if this is inappropriate or too judgemental, but I think it's a huge shame that frauddog deleted null's account. I can't speak for everybody, but I'm more than willing to share a space with someone who can show the necessary growth from having signed to be an imperialist soldier. But by deleting the account now the community will think of void as a coward and will be suspicious of any new users who are appropriately combative to cracker nonsense on this site. If you're reading this, and plan on ever coming back, please say who you are and do some self crit. We need your posts, but we also need some transparency.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 2 months ago

Agreed. This goes back to a few of the recent struggle sessions, but I had pointed out a couple of times that if someone can show actual growth from their past selves then that's someone I'd be willing to accept. No one has a straight path to becoming a comrade. Many people here, including myself, used to be Democrats/liberals and have their views over time. There are people here who used to be reactionary and have been able to move on from that time.

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[–] [email protected] 20 points 2 months ago (1 children)

For a bloomer moment β€” I've met several awesome communists of color this past year. Hoping to get to talk to them even more next year!

[–] [email protected] 15 points 2 months ago

I've met several awesome communists of color this past year. Hoping to get to talk to them even more next year!

That's the Global South for you, khizuo!

[–] [email protected] 19 points 2 months ago (4 children)

Some dipshit submitted a FOIA request on Hexbear. Imagine not being socialized to view any willful interaction with pigs as snitching.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 2 months ago

I thought they were joking in the title until I opened the thread and saw the screenshot. Holy fuck. The person who made the request is totally that fucking kid who reminded the teacher to assign homework.

We joke about feds on here, but until we actually find proof of feds, you don't need to do anything that would attract their attention.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 2 months ago

And then the site went down for hours...

[–] [email protected] 13 points 2 months ago (8 children)

They act as if it's over reaction or isn't a big deal because they think about themselves, there's a few people from Gaza posting here, "best" case scenario the site gets shut down for funding terrorism and they lose a platform that donates money to them, worst case they get targeted by the occupying forces. The same applies to all other handicapped/poc/unhoused people in the mutual aid community.

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[–] [email protected] 19 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

Hate feeling like I’m part of the most hated racial demographic in the west, and I know other POC feel isolated and alienated like this but I’m always looking for solidarity with people IRL but never seem to get it.

Like, I’m sure my mental health plays into but I feel like I’m always alone on an island and have to fend for myself. My race gets it from all sides and unfortunately people within my race, at least in the US, are for the most part mentally colonized by white supremacy which is further alienatinv because I can’t seem to relate to any of them

Feel like I am literally everything and anything (negative) to everybody. I’m either looked down on because I’m perceived as too poor, or an uppity n- for being percieved as too rich and educated because of ethnicity. My people are either taking away good jobs or they’re just poor leeches on society depending on who you talk to. I’m either a person capable of SA and murder or an effete weakling. I’m assumed to be a criminal or a literal member of the ruling elite. I’m a nerd that gets racially abused in typical nerd circles or a n- that gets abused in in other circles

It feels like I’m never part of the in-group in any situation. I’m always someone’s enemy. It would be relieving if this was β€˜all in my head’ and I’m only subjecting myself to these narratives as a coping/defense mechanism meant to not only protect me but feed my own ego but I don’t want a life of estrangement, and loneliness.

I'm a minority within a minority. A child of immigrants to a country that is itself a colony to an imperial power.

My upgringing could have been a lot worse and the same goes for my life, but I swear to god if I make it through life without doing serious harm to myself it will be a small miracle.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

I can relate to this a lot, with islamophobia in the place of the more overt racism you face. All my family are libs or deeply reactionary Muslim chuds, there’s so few progressive pan-Arab forces left

On the one hand i have the ignorant racist kkkrackers and then on the other I have Islamists.

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[–] [email protected] 18 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (2 children)

vent post: family issues, ableism, anti-masking, anti-veganismReally hoping that I can move out in 2025 because my mom is increasingly pushing me to do things that are detrimental to my health. She thinks that my physical disability is mainly a mental issue (it's not) and that I can overcome it by exercising (I can't, my condition gets worse if I overexert myself) and that I need to stop being vegan to cure it (not going to happen). Also none of my family are COVID-cautious and my mom is forcing me to take off my mask around them just because she doesn't like seeing me wearing a mask.

Moving out is going to be a struggle though. Last year I temporarily moved out (well, there's a bit more to it than that but yeah) but eventually had to return because I didn't have a good plan, I was jumping around and it was tough. And with my disability worsening significantly this past year it's going to be even harder. Maybe even impossible. But I have to try.

So yeah, I'm going into the new year with a lot of stress. I don't know what's going to happen, really. All I know is living with my parents is not sustainable in the long term.

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[–] [email protected] 18 points 2 months ago

Wishing all my POC comrades a wonderful new year ahead. heart-sickle

[–] [email protected] 17 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

AWA AWAAAAAAAA!!!! :3 πŸŽ‰πŸŽŠβœ¨πŸŽ‡πŸŽ†

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[–] [email protected] 17 points 2 months ago

In the relatively short time I have been on this website, I do not think a week has passed without at least one "struggle session".

[–] [email protected] 17 points 2 months ago (2 children)

I don't have much substantial to say but just as a reminder (since the tags are no longer visible) I believe frauddogg's pronouns are null/void and none/username if I'm remembering correctly

doomer

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[–] [email protected] 16 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (6 children)

In remembrance of some of the former EMPOC users of the previous year (correct if I'm wrong)

UlyssesT - deleted account for OPSEC issues under new Trump admin

Al_Sham - deleted account due to emotional turmoil resulting from the fall of Assadist Syria

frauddogg - deleted account out of shame of being exposed as ex-U.S soldier, after calling funkYankkkees "settler"

@[email protected] - banned due to misogyny

@[email protected] - banned due to

reason: Repeated violations and refusal to self crit

Neptium

Maorites

Afters

Hopefully this year is a year of recovery

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[–] [email protected] 16 points 2 months ago (2 children)

I don't post in this mega often, but I know from lurking around that you're the coolest people here 😎 The crackers are at it again, and I share a lot of the pessimism I see in this thread rn, but I also wanna say that having been here with this community since its inception, I've seen many, many, many struggle sessions (and instigated a few of them myself... im-vegan ) and this community genuinely has improved and grown incrementally each time in a positive direction. Obviously it sucks that we have to have these learning moments in the first place, and the pace at each change occurs is slower than any of us hope, but I have seen this community continually move in the right direction in a way I haven't seen any other online community this large do. Maybe it's cope, but just thought I'd inject some optimism into here... Idk.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 2 months ago (1 children)

the problem is, its not just hexbear. on twitter you have "leftist" accounts joining hand to hand with right wing racists on attacking "identity politics". the way i like to think of it is that the white western left is similar to the israeli left. should i spend my emotional energy with the matters and discourses of the "israeli left"? id rather not.

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

I really wish I had more to talk about in this thread than the struggle sessions and white/yankee hexbear venting. Any of you drink Puerto Rican Coquito? A neighbor gifted me some while I was out on a walk, but I don't drink alcoholic beverages and she had put rum in it. It smells nice.

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[–] [email protected] 14 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I don't think anything that is happening is funny and I don't like being treated like a spectacle

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[–] [email protected] 13 points 2 months ago

Found this carne asade spice mix my sister left us, think msg paprika garlic citrus etc. Been using it on my tofu and it's pretty damn good tofu-cool load it up in a burrito with some bean n greens kel-bliss

[–] [email protected] 13 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Nice, khizuo! You're the person of the house, or in this case, the comm

[–] [email protected] 14 points 2 months ago (1 children)

catgirl-happy

I LOVE MY EM_POC COMRADES!!!

[–] [email protected] 13 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Wait, its yer caik day, and the last day to new year! Say hello to a better tomorrow, and let's rock to a new world!

For auld acquintance be forgot

And never brought to mind?

We'll take a cup of kin'ness yet

For auld lang syne!

Btw, how's the disabled comm? Doing good?

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