GUESS WHO IS A FULL MEMBER OF THE PSL???
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
A lot of westerners take middle east's casual racism, sexism and homophobia as a sign of Israel's progressiveness, when in reality the zionist entity is a competitive player, putting gay people in prison is a rookie move when you can black mail them into doing terrorism and being informants [insert clever way to include how female IOF soldiers that are available for marriage are presented during birth right tour].
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It's White Man's Burden: 2025 edition
(please ignore how racist, sexist, homophobic, classist, antisemitic, and transphobic the west is towards its own population)
A lot of westerners, unfortunately, really have fallen for the lie that the Global North is more "advanced" in terms of LGBTQ+ rights, women's rights, etc. than the Global South. Pinkwashing would no longer be as handy for deception if more of them knew this wasn't the case. The West is quite clearly still incredibly bigoted towards anyone who isn't white, cishet, a man, etc.
it's interesting watching still fall on the pink washing argument as they strip it, another legistlation that makes transitioning even harder while condemning starving Gazans.
Glad Hulk Hogan dead but annoyed with all the white people on saying "I don't agree with his views but you're a piece of shit for celebrating his death" dear lord the amount of
giving a shit about him is astounding. Like you're clearly defending him if you keep asking for us to respect him after he died for his family like nah no dice.
a person with white guilt will never reach the level of a self hating poc/third worlder, not even comparable.
white guilt is just virtue signalling at best and a self indulgent treat for masochists at worst
if you really feel bad about it then give me your house
why do so many people get away with being so vocally "pro-Palestinian" and "anti-genocide" but you work at IBM/Microsoft/PwC/insert other company that directly contributes to the genocide ??? how are you so SHAMELESS?
Trying to decipher how much of my personality is appeasement mannerism come about from being big and brown and folx idk sometimes I feel bad for experiencing emotions that could be seen as threatening and it's just exhausting. Definitely feels like I'm playing a stereotype for acceptance and a pessimistic part of me tells myself people just keep me around to feel better about themselves.
The struggle is real with being perceived as threatening for having normal upset emotions.
Right, they're good to feel and I do with my family but outside with white people I sometimes feel like I gotta keep a happy dopey mask on. I also tend to come off as very apologetic and it's hard to turn off
Sounds like we might have the opposite approach to the same problem and are both suffering because the problem itself isn't one that can be fixed without fixing white people. It feels like a damned no matter what you do thing. I don't have the capacity to mask anymore but then I keep getting in trouble with white people for being open and honest about being a human being and having feelings that aren't just "I'm a bhoddisattva". It's frustrating, but the price of playing nice is frustrating too.
it's very much a white people in general thing but I'm not holding my breath on them changing anytime soon just getting worse.
I've grown sicken with how many of them might have only been kind to me because of a white savior complex I'm dead certain that's the case to every white church I've frequented growing up with friends.
Every time y'all talk of :cracker: , I get the sense of relief that where I live, I don't interact with much cumskins, with their behaviors and aw.
Seeing white Americans hating HOA is nice but attributing it to sexism (Karens) instead of their own racist ass practices does make me angry ngl. Not gonna defend either but gonna enjoy watching them fight
I hate the white cracker treat brain. "I come here to escape real-world problems." Motherfucker, if you can turn that part of your brain off, it's not really a problem for you, is it?
I do not get the privilege of telling the cops "Yeah I don't feel like doing a racist ableism right now. Can we reschedule this for Thursday?" with them responding all "Okay that works for us, too! We'll be back to do our racial profiling then! Please meet us again right here."
If I can't rely on the people in this space to not whine about how something happening is affecting their ability to consoom without thinking about the thing, it means I have to keep my guard up. You get to zone out, while I have to go through the effort of watching what I say in case some fuckwad thinks it'd be funny to send false reports to ICE/the FBI/local police/Social Security Admin/the IRS as the least harmful scenario that could play out.
there needs to be an option to filter out american opinions from the internet. i need to get behind that great wall.
I'm getting back on the plant based wagon after falling off for a long while. Feels really great. It's been a work in progress for a while, but most of my meals are starting to be plant based and it makes me happy 😊
I'm stressed about mass deportation, but still doing my best to get out there and resist ICE despite being part of their target demographic. I figure being out in front is safer since I can at least partially set the terms of engagement. I really don't want to be blindsided, I've already accepted that bad shit will happen. I just don't want it to be a surprised when it finally does.
rant about non-vegan bullshit in medicine
I fucking hate how medications are not vegan. Basically, every single medication is tested on animals, and a lot of them contained animal-derived ingredients. I'm going to see if I can get some sort of animal-free version of my meds, but I probably can't sweat it too much if I can't. I'm also getting my HRT and antidepressants covered by a trans charity who works with a local pharmacy of mine, so I really don't financially have access to external sources that might have a solution for this. Ugh.
The manager for the job referral finally got back to me and wants to schedule an interview!
just when i thought i'd seen everything, i see this tweet. how do you americans all feel about this.
White Americans live in a bubble
This is gonna be a weird thing to say, but I can't trust most feminists to be "misandrists" or "man haters" responsibly.
To clarify what I mean by this: Obviously, I, of all people, get saying things like "I hate men," "I hate white people," and/or "I hate straight people" out of seeking catharsis about the grievances you have with people in privileged positions acting like shit. I'm basically the leader when it comes to complaints about cracKKKers
However, my issue is that, like I said, I can't trust mainstream feminists to do this responsibly. What I mean by that is that I can't expect them to do in a way where they're actually making a systemic critique rather than just leaning into some extremely individualistic framing of the matter that inevitably pans out as essentialist bullshit that endangers trans people and POC.
For this reason, I get skeptical a lot when I see "man-hating" content online—not because I disagree with the message itself, but because of the way this message has been exploited. I don't expect your average person who yaps on social media (or IRL for that matter) to actually be revolutionary and educated about oppression from a systemic perspective.
To the Americans here, if you're given a choice of immigrating to another country, anywhere you desire, and never coming back, would you take it? I was wondering why everyone around me kept reassuring me that things will get better after a few years, but then I realized they were either whites, church-goers, or 🍊 supporters.
The smart answer is "Hell yes".
I am not smart. I am territorial. I get very attached to what I know and love and do not want to leave it. I am probably autistic.
I had asked myself this question in 2015 and 2016 because Trump was so scary. The wave of genocidal white supremacy he was riding looked so powerful, and I thought that staying here might mean death. I had a friend in Canada urging me to move up with her. But I thought about it, and the answer I arrived at was basically, "this is my home, this is my land. The insects I love will not be somewhere else. The birds I love will not be somewhere else. The trees I love will not be somewhere else. The people I love will not be somewhere else. Sure there's probably other good things elsewhere, but it's not what I've known my whole life. This is my home, and if I'm given a choice between dying to stay here and living somewhere else, I will die here, and I'll take as many of the fuckers who want to expel or kill me with me when they come for me."
A ridiculous sentiment for the child of two people who are halfway across the world from their homelands. But I'm not my parents. I'm me. And even though my life has fallen apart here, this is still my stance. I just don't want to leave.
I'm going to the DPRK the first chance I get, become an american "defector" and tell everyone about how the president is a pedophile who kidnaps people to foreign countries (wait I forgot to lie)
Being a materialist and realizing that poverty is a war to rob the working class peoples of their current and future lives has disabused any liberal notion of "giving up" anything.
My parents were immigrants, I'll likely be an immigrant as well, best spend my life building socialism with the skills Ive gained in the West.
yes, i mean i'm about to try that (not so legally and HOPEFULLY never coming back) myself very very soon so we will see!
had a really sad dream where i remembered the last time someone told me i was important to them and that was more than 6 years ago :\ heavy heart. and even that ended up being untrue
there's no way life is supposed to be like this; why is everyone seemingly okay with surface level connections and not questioning anything about the way we live and treat each other
discussions of anti-semitism/islamophobia
I hate how this is a touchy subject even 2 years into a genocide, but in the lightest example, how many Torah books were burnt during these last few years in protest of Israel? How many caricatures of Moses bombing children? I've seen even so called leftists defend actions like this when it was done against the Quran and Mohammed every time Islam was on the news. Hundreds of kids in Gaza got burnt in this holocaust and how many pages of the Torah were burnt. Conflating Israel with Judaism and the spread of anti-semitism in the Palestinian circles... yet no one picked up a book and lit it up.
Now a clarification, there is anti-semitism committed against Jews, they are called slurs, synagogues are sprayed and attacked by Nazis who I don't think even know Israel exists or is committing crimes right now... Or maybe they do, I'm not talking with Nazis to know that.
I've consumed so many beans this week and I'm already soaking more for tomorrow. 20 bucks for a large bag it just makes sense to base my diet around this I get some veggies on the side but other wise it bean town babee
sometimes it's hard for me to empathize with people that have "lost" something like loved ones or a proper home or career, because I never had any of those things to begin with, my whole life has felt transitory, temporary, disposable, and unbelonged. it feels wrong and toxic a lot of the time for me to feel that way, and i would never go around throwing it in peoples face who are dealing with loss, but that's just what i struggle with internally. i just find myself daydreaming about what it would be like to even have something to miss.
YT people especially libs being obtuse on that Sydney Sweeney jeans "genes" ad at a time white folks openly making white only towns, funding a genocide or two, banning black history books, putting latino migrants in concentration camps with gestapo, doing remix of the Madagascar plan.. "Oh all of this shit poc in your country go through is imagined is just in your head nothing wr..
Interview went well... the two people who interviewed me are Black. That's good. A lot of Black people work there actually. It's a hospital job, so of course, positions there are very much in demand. Apparently, I get an answer in about a week. They seem to value my referral's words quite well, too. I'm still applying for other jobs in the mean time. Though I do think my chances are greatly increased because of networking, I still got doubts!
The multi ethnic group of children(non-white) were playing around the parking lot. As I walked by one of the Asian kids said "I got you N****" to his soccer partner, I'm assuming one of the Black kids. They were all elementary aged, when I got inside I couldn't help but bust out laughing because it was the same growing up. The kid will probably grow up and understand the weight of the word, or say he never said it, or keep using it with his Black friends. Who knows, but funny it's still the same.
Getting the urge to watch dbz again in the latino dub prob my favorite version. Just was thinking that the series is more than just people firing energy beams at each other.
CW// talk of SA
Every time I see a topic of SA under colonialism I notice Europeans/colonizers don't even do apologism, they twist it into "in their cultures they isolate and shame the victims this is so sad"
Second CW actual awful shit in reddit comments post and story example: top comment here