em_poc
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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my favourite activity is watching crackers make shit up and believe it, especially the more "left leaning" ones, end up seeing stuff like "of course some Haitians eat household pets, but that's not enough to justify racism against them and there's good ones that don't eat pets" from time to time
Picture of the average whitey when left alone with their thoughts:
It does seem like they're addicted to outrage. Conservatives are constantly finding things to get upset over, but even libs will glue themselves to the screen looking at Trump's antics. I don't understand it. It's too exhausting to constantly plug yourself into the outrage machine. Like go watch a movie or something.
I think the outrage culture probably exists among EMPOCs, though I'm struggling to think of any examples.
Can't even do that because now they'll even lose their minds for the most minimal repesentation of anything other than CIS white people.
I remember the IMDB message board would always be filled with chuds losing their shit any time a movie had anything other than white cishet straight men.
There's a movie called "The Invitation" and it takes place in LA. A bunch of people were in the message boards complaining about diversity within the cast and I'm just like "That's a pretty typical friend group when you live in a city with over 1 million people?"
To their
$$urprise...
.......aaaaaaand I ate a ban from chapo for pointing out settler ideological fascist gun fantasies. Whitey got mad and used his mod powers to nuke my comments. Which admin do I talk to about that?
They were doing the thing where they made up a scenario, freaked out about the thing they just made up, then got mad when this was pointed out.