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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I think the racism towards indians was built up to make westerners not care about the deaths from global warming there.
Maybe. But the way I see it, it acts more as a tool for social control... a way to keep Indians in "their place" across the US and Canada
An Indian living in India, i feel like it is the need for another "dirty outsider" Chinese fulfilled this role for the longest time while Indians were model minority, more things seem to be reversing.
I think much of the racism against Indian and Asians could be a combination of jealousy of perceived success, and bleed over from general othering.
Broke white guy goes to convivence store which is owned by Asians, the restaurant owned by Asians, and every one of his doctors is one of the two. Wonders why do they get it and not him.
The ignorant fool then proceeds to never consider the sacrifices made for that success. The missed hours with children, family and friends. The 20 hour work days and the skipping of going to things like convivence stores or restaurants, and of more essential things like going to the doctor.
They stare at success and wonder why not them, without ever doing any of the work required for it. But that's just my opinion, and its just broke guy racism. Rich guy racism is like a whole other weird gross thing that cant be explained by ignorance, only by the fact that they're generally pure evil and think their gods above all. ::shudders::