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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IME, no second-generation Asian cares enough about ethnic backgrounds to the point of being awkward like this. First-generation Asians sometimes do have beef, but they also don't act like this either. They tend to guess the ethnic background based on last name, the particular accent of their native tongue and English, what church or temple they go to, what city/part of the city they live in, and so on. They don't have to directly ask the ethnic background of the other person, and if they care to reenact the beef in a diasporic context, they mostly just act standoffish and talk shit behind their backs instead of being awkward like this.
So, in this hypothetical example, the first person would speak either in Putonghua (standard Mandarin spoken in the Mainland) with erhua or Mandarin with a Cantonese accent. The second person would speak Guoyu (standard Mandarin spoken in Taiwan) with a Hokkien accent since benshengren are more likely to identify as Taiwanese than Chinese. Their names would be pretty different and give away their background as well. The first person would probably have a name like Chen Li while the second person would have something like Alice Chang owning to the Taiwanese diaspora's tendency to more readily adapt English first names. Chen Li would go to the mainlander church, and Alice Chang would go to the benshengren church, so knowing what church they go to is enough to reveal their background without them saying a single word.
Oh for sure, she definitely made this knowing this never happens and she just wanted to make the braindead American Taiwan isn't China meme and being a colonized race which a lot of Asians from former colonies like doing when meeting another person from the colonial race