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?
Follow Lemmy TOS and Community Guidelines. Non negotiable. This is the bedrock and mods will make decisions with this always in mind.
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.
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.
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.
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?
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.
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?
Suggested Posts
Because I recently had to crumple up a cracKKKa who wandered into this community, uhh, let me be clear:
EM POC ONLY
Thank you. With that aside, welcome to this week's featured EM POC thread.
How are all my comrades doing?
Why KKKracKKKerSS always be trippin' fr
no rhythm 💯
Idk, they on the next {insert medication}-in?
Curious if any other trans people share this sentiment with me but the whole trans thing ended up being a lot less big of a deal than I thought
It's infinitely easier for me to find cis people who are cool with me being trans than Americans who aren't weird about me being a minority
I have less attachment to being transgender. I don't really think of myself like that much. I'm just a woman and I'd like to be treated as one by the people around me. I have very little in common with almost every other trans person I have met in real life.
Due to the nature of intersectionality, I feel as if discrimination against my blackness and my transness are already usually meshed together as one thing anyway. Sometimes, it just seems like one side of the two is emphasized far more than the other, but ultimately, to answer your question to the best of my ability: I'm generally far more comfortable hanging out with black cishet people than I am doing so with white trans/queer people.
: I'm generally far more comfortable hanging out with black cishet people than I am doing so with white trans/queer people.
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The global south experience: the "civilized" world subjugates and enslaves you and steals natural resources from you for hundreds of years, after independence fought or not your nation is still going to get screwed over by neo-colonialism or western sponsored fascist coups or sanctions, all the resources used by the north were used to make funko pops that cost your pay to produce and your life to buy, also those funko pops are made so inefficiently that they destroy the Earth, with the earth getting less liveable your nation is unable to do anything to stop it because it didn't have the time to develop, a lot of the times people can't even afford AC units, and if you try to go a global north country legally you'll get denied, and you'll get shot if you do it illegally.
Anyhow I got a miswak last week, lowkey didn't know they were this good damn.
Miswak is fun, my mom brings them with her when she returns from overseas.
Soak them in water, chew em, and brush.
On a personal level part of the global south experience for me has been being told by USAmericans that I must have solidarity with the people who supported and were part of the invasion of my country because they are also oppressed minorities
Yeah no fuck that. It's our job in the US to have solidarity with the global south, not the other way around. Plenty of minorities get by without taking part in white supremacy. Signing up for the military is an active choice a person makes. It's a conscious choice to kill people you don't know for your own personal gain.
Like there are hitmen in the US with a higher code of ethics.
"Why can't you Vietnamese act in solidarity with these U.S-backed Hmong mercenaries?" 
And said nations are the main cause of the planet getting destroyed. And we're the ones that get hit first. Oh and these guys get to define who are humanised and not. Yes the people responsible for the greatest genocides in human history and the greatest ones to come along with the annihilation of most life on earth get to define who is to be dehumanised. Humanity is a massive joke
The global south experience:
Yep not good... all I wish for Christmas is a multipolar world to reverse that
Anyhow I got a miswak last week, lowkey didn't know they were this good damn.
Huh... 
I simply didn't know how much I needed it, because I can't stay in one place and I don't like the feeling of toothpaste in my mouth, but I can walk around while using a miswak, I can even use it in bed before I sleep
Miswak gang
I've been mistaken for somoan, sihk when I had a beard and now more and more as indigenous people asking me if I'm from so and so rez. Don't know why most people don't id me as mexican, no one's ever been mean or anything just curious once I tell them my legal name and start speaking spanish they go ah
I'm mixed British and Filipino so I'm kind if ambiguous-looking. I've had people ask if I'm Latino, Inuit, Hawaiin, Japanese, Italian, and black...like everything except Filipino lol
You beat me there lol, I think a lot of it might just be like a roshach test where people see what they wanna see. Part of me wants to fuck around with different dialects just to mess with people but that requires listening to myself and that's 
no beuno
I got mistaken once for a circus clown
If you were in America, I think ppl would pinpoint ye as Filipino
British people doesn't prolly know much about Filipinos, do they?
I live in the US but my European ancestry is all from Britain just coincidentally. I don't want to be too specific because I would dox myself lol
Well, then either the 
are dumb or you just might not look the part (you do know how Filipinos usually look like, right)
Funny, you know, one of my younger siblings, I'll tell ye hwat, looks more South-Asian than Filipina, to the point some marketing agency wanted her to participate in an advertisement, because of her ethnic ambiguity
Small win against the evil dmv, helped my sibling finally pass their driver's license test. Growing up we'd always see our older sister and mom fail it with how much harder it is in spanish so it kind of wore rest of family down but one by one we are starting to pass. I got mine first this year then helped my sister then nephew now sibling and hopefully I'll be able to help my mom next.
