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Ethnic Minorities and People of Color
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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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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.
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Seeing the whole "Black Americans vs. Africans vs. Afro-Caribbeans" infighting thing online and looking at it like:
I don't understand this, either. It happens in other ethnic groups (mine included). Whitey does not care about who came from where, only that you have one drop of non-white blood. You will be treated the same with complete disregard.
Just look at how non-Arabs were treated after 9/11. Whitey couldn't keep his racism focused on one group. He used it as an excuse to target Sikhs, Persians, and more.
Diaspora wars have a great way of coming up every single month somehow, i know cias behind it but god damn does it get frustrating
Bruh how is that happening?
It's because they see another image of themselves through a white producer, believe it and try to disassociate from it, their egos blind them from learning about each other, and so apply their understanding to the results of the other, "why are they shooting at each other? we don't do that over here there must be something wrong with them" "why are they selling drugs? we don't do that over here there must be something wrong with them" "why are they living in huts? we don't do that over here there must be something wrong with them" they didn't learn this from their experience, they didn't learn it from talking to people from there, they didn't learn it from a book, they learned it from the same screen.
Western media and its consequences have been a brainrot on the human race.
The amount of shit I've seen is crazy and not just the FBA vs ADOS shit. The horners vs others. The xenophobic shit between African countries including mine online. The amount of white supremacist talking points to put the other down I see is like two eunuchs arguing over who has a bigger dicks. Utterly pointless.
Is this the ADOS and FBA stuff I keep hearing about but don't really get?
Yup