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?
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Remember, EM POC only!
One year of Palestinian resistance... 
I want liberation for all of the marginalized who still remain chained up by their oppressors.
That aside, of course, I'm hoping for some happy EM POC vibes this week!
I'm trying this new approach to my issues called the "thug that shit out" approach. Let's see how it goes!
If I had a nickel for every piece of cognitive dissonance I've seen 
On average, Americans commit three felonies per day (mostly unknowingly). If cops want to arrest you, they will find something to arrest you over. Whites think they're perfect, law-abiding citizens, but they're not. The law is selectively un-enforced towards them.
Hell, they illegally use drugs more often than non-whites. But non-whites are arrested and convicted more often by several orders of magnitude for drug offenses.
Whypipo don't understand that arrest and charges mean different things too
Factos. So many saw the DNA evidence of breh that was executed wrongly recently and they still pulled the wool over their eyes
feels bad laughing at this but yeah, it sucks
thankfully we got each other 
I feel like I'm a about to enter the comeback of a lifetime. Things around me feel less overwhelming. The HR at the transit agency said welcome to the family and it's pretty validating- esp when everyone here really does treat each other like family. I'm gonna love this place and I'll probably drive buses for the agency for the rest of my working years.
Hell yeah, Comrade! I'm really happy for you too!
Thank you for driving! 
Obama admin fought to lower the minimum wage in Haiti. Remember this along with others the next time he tries to lecture black Americans with the "yo y'all " accent. https://www.businessinsider.com/wikileaks-haiti-minimum-wage-the-nation-2011-6?r=US&IR=T
My town gets all the weirdest expats. There’s this blond Lithuanian woman who seemingly has a fetish for buff brown men, because she’s always seen fooling around with them.
Anyway, today she was wearing a hoodie and baggy pants. Somebody asked her why she was wearing that in 21 (70F) degree weather and she responded, “because I’m a n-word” with the hard R in full English.
That's...uh...hmm. Maybe just drag her off to the bathroom and wash her mouth out with soap.
Is this what they mean, when they told some USian immigration workers
Be patient with {Slavic, specifically Ukrainian} migrants; they might call you the n-word
today is the final day of navratri!! every year i go to the mandir to do garba but this year i was sick and now i have work so i haven't been able to go, but i get to go today. im so excited
when i think about my indian-ness or hindu-ness, this is the only festival i really think of since its the only one i actively participate in where i feel like i belong. also its still hard trying to describe what garba is to white people lol
Congrats, Aen,
You finally get to connect with your heritage!
A little note
you know, it's funny, there's like 1 billion of Hindus in this world, yet they're not as vocal of their beliefs, compared to Christians or Muslims, who make a similar population...
yay!! tbh i feel like i squandered all the opportunities i was given when i was a teenager to connect with my heritage more, and now its a lot harder to do it. like i had the opportunity to learn gujarati but i mostly messed around in class and now i regret it
also
i think hinduism is less of a monolith which makes it harder to be vocal about it, i suppose. and when they are vocal, it's in india and very related to islamophobia. at least in the uk where i live, hindus are either indifferent about preaching about their religion, but when they are super religious, they channel that preachy energy towards islamophobia
tbh i feel like i squandered all the opportunities i was given when i was a teenager to connect with my heritage more, and now its a lot harder to do it. like i had the opportunity to learn gujarati but i mostly messed around in class and now i regret it
Heh, a lot of migrants like me and you do... thankfully, I've began to pick up more on my native tongue, from my parents, but as for connection to my nation, I don't feel it nor do I find it much interesting...
(hint: it's the other nation infamous for codeswitching between English and the national language)
infamous but i have no idea what it could be... philippines? that's my best guess
Yep...
it was the highlight of my year once again, never gets old! i had to relearn a little bit but once i got going it was amazing. i love dance
also i thought a video would help if you don't know what it is: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yaVpBhZfQDg&t=360
hi, i was with friends (not mine, friends of a friend) playing dnd and it was uncomfortable with the n*zi references.
i get it's typical 
stuff, but knowing the people are largely of german heritage and transphobic/misogynistic then having their in-game team called the 'SS' is whack.
it really was not funny and i had no clue how to even express my distaste. i stopped playing with them, they kept making n*zi references it was disturbing.
i'd wanna express my thoughts some of the time but yeah i sorta felt ashamed for some reason :/
but knowing the people are largely of german heritage and transphobic/misogynistic then having their in-game team called the 'SS' is whack.
That sounds like Stonetoss' friend group... 
Went out to celebrate a co-worker's birthday last night and somehow I'm not suffering from a massive hangover.
Apparently it's too much for some Hexbear crackers to allow people to be angry at libs for supporting the genocide of brown people. We need to show libs patience and to touch grass and ground ourselves while a genocide on our comrades and friends and families happens. They cannot do wrong, they can only be wronged. The Zionist project has nothing to do with Nazism. This is all just a big misunderstanding.
Some fucking people here, for real.
Also, and as a general statement, I have never called for anyone to be executed. I've only ever called for people to get time-out in a pit and self-crit together.
I got a sneaking suspicion one of them is that dude who malds at people using the word "cracker." Whatever. Hexbear always had a mayo problem. And I don't see that changing anytime soon because there's way too many white people here.
You know, for a USian leftist social media website whose target demographic are zoomers and millennials, the fact that white people are a supermajority instead of a slight minority is disgraceful. White people don't even form the majority of USian zoomers. And once you screen out the (mostly white) Christofascists and (mostly white) white nationalists, the percentage of US zoomers who are white drops even further. But over here on Hexbear dot net, the percentage of white posters is probably on par with UK zoomers who are white. Cool if this is a British site, but not so cool since it's an USian site.
Lol I think I know exactly what you’re referring to. Always get annoyed when someone talks like they’re somehow superior because they think they’re the only one interacting with the outside world.
kudos to you, tovarshi! That must have taken a lot of courage, coming out to your parents.