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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Literal neo-nazis have shot up synagogues, yet it's Palestinian supporters who have any material actions taken against them, including by Jewish groups. You have Jews pearl clutching over Arabs saying "Please stop killing us, especially our kids. We will accept a two-state solution."
Why are no actions being taken against the KKK or Order of Nine Angels or the Aryan Brotherhood or any of a dozen other neo-nazi groups? It's because the zionist supports neo-nazis and is willing to sacrifice their own people for whatever goal they think works. And they especially love when mosques or Palestinian supporters or restaurants or whatever get attacked because it lets them farm sympathy for other people's suffering while hurting those same people, who they don't like.
I cannot take zionism or its sympathizers seriously because of this, not even getting into what happened in the Holocaust to Roma, the disabled, and LGBTQ+ people, who were not given an ethnostate and continue to face actual persecution in the so-called West. It seems so blatantly obvious zionism and the majority of Jews who support it are full of shit. It's a bunch of crocodile tears and for some reason we're all expected to pretend like it's not.
Norteños and Crips have more legitimacy as anti-hate groups than the ADL because they've at least shanked, strangled, and beat the fuck out of a bunch of nazis.
ADL when literal neo-nazis: I sleep
ADL when college kids aren't fans of genocide and regular massacres of a population where nearly half are children: real shit
And I never thought of what you brought up about the not at all talked about Romani genocide that occurred at the same time as the holocaust, against people who still are very much openly oppressed to this day, openly seen as an "acceptable target" and at risk of another extermination campaign in europe and who nobody, not even they themselves, advocate for an ethnosate let alone at the expense of other racialized or colonized peoples who played 0 role in their oppression. That makes zionism and all it's defendants more detestable. Not surprising considering even holocaust memorial orgs (most of them financed by wealthy zionists) are erasing all the non-jewish victims such as those mentioned including socialists, soviets, poles, black people etc... They don't matter since they can't be used as arguments for the expansion of western interests in the global south after all.
Nobody except white people and/or jews have ever had entire non-fringe political ideologies, right or left, defending their supposed right to commit ethnic cleansing and found an ethnostate. May it all come crashing down in our lifetime.