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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?

  1. Follow Lemmy TOS and Community Guidelines. Non negotiable. This is the bedrock and mods will make decisions with this always in mind.

  2. 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.

  3. 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.

  4. 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.

  5. 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?

What can I post?

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[–] Rojo27@hexbear.net 8 points 1 week ago (2 children)
[–] Belly_Beanis@hexbear.net 7 points 1 week ago (1 children)
[–] anarchoilluminati@hexbear.net 4 points 1 week ago

That's a real nice chicken you got there.

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[–] vegeta1@hexbear.net 8 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Imma call BBC news Bibi C news. The state of them cringe

Weren't they always like that?

[–] Poetjustice@hexbear.net 7 points 1 week ago

I actually did advocacy for the city council hearing that Adam Friedland was trolling during the cold open of his new Ro Khanna episode.

If anyone is in NYC and interested, the NYPD runs an entirely secretive gang database which basically only registers Black and Latino young men. No italian mobsters, no Chinese street gangs. There have been kids as young as 12 added onto there and some people found themselves on there because they posted a selfie with a gang member or live in a public housing complex where gang activity occurs.

A specific case was when a graduate student in Connecticut got arrested for a RICO bust over Bronx gang activity because he featured people in his neighborhood in his amateur hip-hop videos. The federal prosecutor threatened him with the death penalty so he pled guilty to a weed trafficking charge and ended up getting kicked out of college right before graduation and lost his scholarship/financial aid. He’s delivery DoorDash right now.

[–] Wmill@hexbear.net 7 points 1 week ago (3 children)

Wonder if anyone else has a familiar nickname that's way off from their legal name. I quite like mine and have been having my close friends use it. It's probably the closest to a true name I got since internally I use it when talking to myselfs. It tends to be odd to my white friends but idk sometimes it hard to explain to them

[–] anarchoilluminati@hexbear.net 6 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Same. Except, my nickname is based off my legal name but people who don't speak the language wouldn't know this. I've been told they thought I just decided to pick a totally different name because it sounded cooler. Haha

[–] Wmill@hexbear.net 5 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Fr my white friends here my legal name and can't connect the dots, my mom has a cooler one goes by Maria but for some reason her family call her kooka I think that's how you spell it

[–] anarchoilluminati@hexbear.net 6 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Kuka? Is she Puerto Rican? I knew an older Puerto Rican lady named Kuka.

Please feel free not to answer to avoid doxxing though.

[–] thelastaxolotl@hexbear.net 5 points 1 week ago (1 children)

cuca is also a nickname in mexico

[–] anarchoilluminati@hexbear.net 4 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Ah. It's a nickname for Maria?

[–] thelastaxolotl@hexbear.net 4 points 1 week ago (1 children)

i think so, but i seen it being used for concepcion

[–] Wmill@hexbear.net 4 points 1 week ago

That's it and nah she from mexico so idk why she has that she just said that's her family nickname

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[–] Wmill@hexbear.net 6 points 1 week ago

Hell yeah new empoc mega meow-bounce

[–] Wmill@hexbear.net 6 points 1 week ago

arroz y frijoles pretty much everyday for me, added in some carne de soya and I'm set. Also salsa to make it go down easier, my classmates seeing me eating this everyday and wonder how I do it but I'm just built different shrug-outta-hecks

[–] Angel@hexbear.net 5 points 1 week ago
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