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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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You miss the open floor meta post?
Ya I think so. Sounds like drama was in it from people getting banned?
The post in question btw: https://hexbear.net/post/5974671
Basically, a comrade had some heavy criticism about how Judaism is used as a cover for zionism and even went to the point of saying that antisemitism is an illegitimate concept in the current day, being used as a rhetorical weapon against those colonized by or trying to speak for those colonized by the zionist entity and catering to them in these issues is no different than catering towards white people in regards to race issues. They were harsher than my quick summary can convey, but the user had their comment removed and was banned by an admin for antisemitism, which was then overruled by another admin who apologized on behalf of the team. I wasn't monitoring real-time, but between the initial banning and the admin who lifted the ban checking in, it appears hell was raised about it and for good reason didn't immediately stop after.
While the ban was lifted, I believe I saw that the user in question found it a pill that couldn't be swallowed, and it appears they have left the forum.
Had some branch-off debates about how to solve the issue, from forcing mods to have their name signed to mod actions, or maybe just having more shades of skin on the mod team will fix this.
Upsetting, but it is what it is
Thanks for the summary!
That's a tough one because basically anyone can volunteer to be a mod here, so there's not much you can do about that last point other than asking more em poc's to apply. You can't really force anyone to be a mod.
Eh, even if there are more, doesn't exclude chauvinism or simply someone else getting to it first. From my what was said in the thread, 40% of the mods are already so not sure what will change with an increase.