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Ethnic Minorities and People of Color
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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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Can I participate here? I am not "white" and not even from the West but I am (technically, mixed family) not an ethnic minority where I live and I don't understand what person of colour means. It feels like a very US-centric term. In general, since the time I joined hexbear, I've felt like this website has a predominantly American worldview and culture, which at times made me feel unwelcome and misunderstood. This is why I've been wondering about this comm.
Not White, mixed, and not Western.
I'm not a mod, but sounds good to me, Comrade.
Yeah you can.
Skin color is used to delineate people into different groups pretty much everywhere
Yeah, but the weird thing is when you belong to an ethnic majority group within your country that is not discriminated against at a local level, but is discriminated against by larger national or international institutions.
Yes, you put it into words better than I have.
But people of color. Like, bruv, the only time such terms are made is when the country is mostly white American or white European descended
People of color ie people who don’t have the same skin color as the majority of the population
I know what it means. I bring it up because this person is concerned with not being an ethnic minority and/or person of color, in their own view, that can fit in this community
The term 'person of color', you don't hear this term being wielded else anywhere else outside of Europe and Americas, regarding anyone who is foreign descent and/or of different color.
Eg. Filipinos don't usually refer to Moros, ethnic Chinese, and ethnic Spanish people as people of color, even though they're ethnic minorities who don't have the same skin color or ethnicity as the majority.
Is this true? I've always felt that, in the Soviet Union and in the post-Soviet world, it is much more important what language you speak (in most post-Soviet countries this means "how well you speak Russian") than what you look like.
But even that aside, human skin is generally colourful so, without the cultural context of the US and Western world, it is not clear who is of colour and who isn't. As a result, it feels like the term itself is inextricably tied to this context.
That's the neat part...whiteness and non-whiteness are arbitrary, made up parameters made by colonizers to justify colonialism and they're wildly inconsistent with their definitions! 😃
If it sounds fucking weird to classify humans based on random attributes, that's because it is. Racism is used to "other" people and racists will change who goes in what category based on whether or not racists can steal their stuff.
As Lussy puts out
and not the same ethnicity
I'd argue, maybe in your country, you're an ethnic majority, but here, since this is Euro-Amerikan dominated instance (Hexbear), you're a person of color and prolly an ethnic minority here
Being ethnic minority depends where you are, kinda
Being ethnic Russian is Russia is majority, but being ethnic Russian in Mongolia is minority, judging from populations