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.
What can I post?
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Juneteenth is a U.S. holiday commemorating black emanicipation and power that originates from Galveston, Texas, where, on this day in 1865, Union General Gordon Granger proclaimed all slaves in Texas, more than 250,000 people, to be free.
Juneteenth is the oldest nationally celebrated commemoration of slave abolition in the United States.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Juneteenth
I hope you nerds have a good month of June 
Remember no crackers
describing a very cringy cracka
I encountered this transmasc person online, and they were really interested in gettting to know me.At first, I thought they were simply a cool friendly person, but shit went downhill with them really fast the more I learned about them.
I went on their Instagram account and I checked their reposts. Their reposts are virtually always content from Black creators that either talk about Black issues directly or content that centers Black people in some way, shape, or form. I went through their stories, and I decided to test something. They had 8 stories posted at the time I did this, so I said to myself, "Let me count how many of them center Black people." Guess what? All 8 of them. ALL FUCKING 8 OF THEM.
I couldn't. There was no reason for me to keep contact with this person. The first 2 things I mentioned were bad enough, but the fetishization of Blackness is something I'm especially uneasy about from a real personal perspective. That shit doesn't fly with me. I'm not trying to be viewed as a deity, especially not by some Ukrainian lib.
joining in
I wonder what they think of trans fetishization, if they fetishize themselves too or if they're in a hypocrite state, I wonder how they think of black revolutionaries and black communists, what do they think about the fetishization of eastern europeans post soviet collapse. There is a thousand questions going on inside my head about this person.spoiler
Regarding the point about the Black communists, such is an exact thought I had. Like, they seem so willing to glorify Black people while also being vehemently opposed to the theory and tactics that many revolutionary and decolonial Black tendencies committed themselves to for the sake of liberation. It makes the fetishization especially ring out as more superficial than it already looks.spoiler
not different from a straight anti-feminist.