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.
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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.
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.
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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.
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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?
CracKKKers realize that being a part of one marginalized group does not absolve you of your mayo tendencies challenge IMPOSSIBLE
White queers especially. Boyyyyyy when I say white queers Stay the weakest link in our spaces...
randomly remembered my first interaction with an American, was during the first Trump presidency, I was in some game's clan, I barely spoke English and didn't know much about the U.S., a person in the clan said they were American and I instantly replied with something in the idea of "Trump bootlicking evil doer living in inequaly" it was a whole rant but I think I talked about Iraq and how the rich waste money on coke in the same country people die homeless, I got kicked and I stopped playing that game.
Edit: my mom was talking to me and referred to MLK.Jr and Malcolm x as "those guys who did Jihad for Black people to have rights" because she forgot their names
I'm a huge fan of TGWDJFBPTHR thought
US election, racism
aannndd they've already started blaming arabs and immigrants for "losing the election"
I'm not sure if it was a liberal or Trumper (the fact I can't tell is damning in itself) yelling outside of my building about getting out to vote and started yelling "Its deportation time"
Libs love to put on their kkk robes the moment they can blame minorities
i don't even wanna know what shitstorm's happening on twitter
It's crazy that 99% of the voters in America voted for a white supremacist
White queens fantasizing about how this will be worse for them than the actual genocide they've been ignoring
White queers should just ignore Trump the same way they ignore intersectionality. It's that easy!
One randomly decided to lie to me today and said "thousands of people have committed suicide" since the election.
I looked it up in front of them and then they changed it to "it might have been attempts" then "the hotlines were overwhelmed"
They literally get off on this shit, hundreds of thousands of Palestinians have been murdered and they don't care but just make shit up about how they're being oppressed when trump isn't even president yet???
They literally get off on this shit, hundreds of thousands of Palestinians have been murdered and they don't care but just make shit up about how they're being oppressed when trump isn't even president yet???
It's like fetish or coping mechanism to them...
White women shut up about the Handmaids tale challenge
Here we go with blame the poc
I hate this country. If it not with the blame it's other ones like I saw some takes where some are like "enjoy deportation" and like what the fuck. I would like to see those shitheads go tell that to me or my dad or grandma.
like here
At least they know that this is awful. Because in the end, thats the important thing.
Maybe racism is more about the friends which you make along the way
writing GreenOtter730 on my EM POC death note now
White liberals are mad because their candidate who campaigned on offering nothing lost. Good riddance and fuck all of the liberals who are going to be doing this shit for 4 years
There are plenty of white latinos especially Florida and Texas
200k likes. Every rotten thing be it lib or chud on there gets the most likes
White people love using terms they don't know the meaning of
YOU CANT HAVE INTERNALIZED RACISM IF YOURE WHITE YOURE JUST FUCKING RACIST
Liberals love to regurgitate leftist words so they can appear """"enlightened, engaged, and informed"""" or whatever the fuck. The amount of times I've seen some libshit kkkkracker call someone a reactionary after getting called that themselves would make me rich. They love using mental health terminology, too.
I have never participated in a war but I'm 100% convinced it's not that hard to not accidentally shoot civilians, Amerikkkan movies make it seem like children and unarmed civilians will be running towards your iron site, not even explosive stuff or strikes, it's not hard to like not fire a school full of children. the way I see it is manufacturing consent to war crimes, a war criminal admits to killing kids but has to act like he didn't enjoy it.
I haven't watched it because I'd feel sick if I did, but this is pretty much what American Sniper is. If not maybe even worse since there's a scene where it justifies it.
I really enjoyed the ending of that movie
Just remember for this blaming minorities and gen z: both demographics came out in big numbers to the blm protests and vote against Trump. The numbers show that Trump didn’t really win any new converts. Majority just stayed home and the only demographics to vote for Trump as a majority were white men/women.
You can bet which one is going to have articles giving them a lot more sympathy.
I literally saw a post that showed Trump voter stats for race and gender, but they were completely separate, and white people and men as groups were roughly the same percentage, but this liberal white woman commented on the post, "Wow, men are not okay" or something to that effect. This is just reinforcing the theory that many Western white feminists do not care about ending oppression; they just want patriarchy to stop inconveniencing them personally. They'll side with white supremacy if given the chance.
And, of course, there's this. This is not a first-time thing for me.
This is why I often have a lot of hard time trusting mainstream feminists or even get wary when I see any "anti-male" stuff. On the surface, to a non-intersectional, close-minded cracKKKer who has never thought critically about feminism in their life, complaining about men collectively just comes off as women innocuously exercising their very much justified frustration with patriarchy, which isn't false in many cases. However, such rhetoric has harmed men of color in particular, and trans people do get negatively impacted by the bioessentialist implications that sometimes are hidden within these kinds of complaints.
Most Hexbears not being aware of the fact that this sentiment has been used in racist ways isn't a shock to me because Hexbear absolutely can be mayo as fuck, but with how many trans users we have, I'm surprised at how many people on this site act like this kind of rhetoric is never used to hurt trans people. And by that, I mean, no, it doesn't only hurt trans people in the case of mask-off Rowlingesque TERF rhetoric; mainstream liberal feminism is plagued with this shit too. I think I just found it easier to notice because, as a transfem of color, the reactionary stick of imperial feminists beats me twice as hard.
Whenever the audacity of global caucacity starts getting to me (read: right now, these past two weeks have been insufferable), I just stop and wonder. "How much fewer shitty redditor takes would I have to read in this day and age if John Brown was allowed to hole-punch more slave-exploiting crackers?"
Like, how many lineages with shitty, rotten fruit would've been pruned at the branch if Brown's plans went off without a hitch, and he took that rebellion on a colonial tour? Puts a smile on my face to think about, tbh.
Get your Kamala pack riiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiight here
Ain't gonna lie, after seeing all that crap blaming minorities for Trump being elected, I want every crakkker, lib or chud, to bow down to EVERY minority in this fucking universe before we chuck em in the pit when revolution comes. And when I say bow, I mean forehead touching the floor, kissing the feet of everyone they blamed, and then some. They've been smug and arrogant about shit they know nothing about for waaay too long and it's about time somebody put them in their place.
They're gonna be bowing for hours like that concentration camp guard being forced to play the piano before 
I still love my people but they have lost their damn minds after Tuesday. Saying no one is there for us so they won't be there for anybody else. I asked them, what have you done for people ? Crickets. Nevermind we had fantastic protest turnout in 2020 nevermind there is a literal genocide happening to another group that I know they're ignoring. Anyway, we're not free unless we're all free
Today I drove a 60 foot bendy bus through a really narrow neighborhood. Holy mackerel
Today's modlog is...interesting to say the least. Looks like we got some purging done throughout different parts of Hexbear.
thoughts on a hexbear affiliated em poc element chat? traaaaaa has one!
While not perfect I do love the addition of latin american spanish vs spain spanish in shows and stuff. Having to hear spain spanish is 
that being said I do get lost if it's not specifically spanish from mexico. Tried to watch some films from argentina/columbia and I got to really pay attention
I went to the DR thinking I could continue practicing what I call Spanish only to learn that I actually speak very basic Mexican
There are a bunch of old black and white movies on yt if you ever interested in seeing the different spanish various latin american countries talk like. Still I feel you, while back talked to one of my sister's friends from columbia and I could barely keep up with him.
Oh yea some accents are kinda hard to follow sometimes, good luck when you want to watch chilean shows
