Ethnic Minorities and People of Color
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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The cracKKKers of this site tend to always assume good of white women and white queers. They'll see a white women spew shit against "all men" and never stop for a second to wonder if her definition of "men" might include trans women or if she is aware of the racial violence she could enact on men of color*. I feel like I rarely ever see struggle sessions related to gender, but I do recall some. The way this site handles gender dynamics is less likely to be scrutinized, but on racial subjects? That's where people especially get uncomfortable and always want to cause a ruckus. That's how we were able to have so many separate struggle sessions about Ansarallah being "antisemitic." This is also why this time I saw some liberal white man on some Instagram reel say "White people treat Black people the way men treat women" made me uncomfortable. That kind of framing greatly misses the point and is so damn reductive. It's reminding me of that John Lennon song, too (you know the one). The compartmentalization is annoying as well. People might think shit like "In Western countries, a Black man is privileged over a white woman in terms of gender, but the white woman is privileged over him in terms of race," but that's not actually how it works. You cannot separate the way gender factors into racial dynamics here. The way gender is handled on these two bodies is not something that exists in a vacuum, detached from any other aspect about them, so people shouldn't oversimplify that shit.
*Though this didn't happen with a "white" Western country, this is also reminding me of this time we had this post uncritically celebrating South Korea's 4B movement and then everyone who was cheering that shit on felt embarrassed and started deleting/editing comments when someone commented that said movement is actually horrible in many ways. Such includes transphobia and how they are really more so the product of internalized racism (i.e., they are against sex with Korean men, but sure as hell don't mind sex with male Western tourists, akin to the "divestor" shit you see among a small portion of Black women)
Here's what I don't understand, though: how the fuck can someone hear of a "female separatist movement" in SSouth KKKorea of all fucking places and then be baffled when that movement is extremely bioessentialist. Correct me if I'm wrong, but I don't think there has ever been a time when female separatism HASN'T been bioessentialist. If it wasn't, chances are there would have to be very awkward conversations about how trans and non-binary people factor into this shit, and these movements certainly do not permit such nuances. Their approach is already undialectical as fuck and tries to reduce "dismantling patriarchy" to individual acts of abstinence against men.
you have articulated exactly how i felt about 4B. certain communities at least acknowledged it had transphobic elements, but this thread is literally the only place i've seen discuss its pro white men angle.