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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?

  1. Follow Lemmy TOS and Community Guidelines. Non negotiable. This is the bedrock and mods will make decisions with this always in mind.

  2. 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.

  3. 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.

  4. 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.

  5. 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.

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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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[–] Wmill@hexbear.net 13 points 6 days ago (6 children)

Trying to decipher how much of my personality is appeasement mannerism come about from being big and brown and folx idk sometimes I feel bad for experiencing emotions that could be seen as threatening and it's just exhausting. Definitely feels like I'm playing a stereotype for acceptance and a pessimistic part of me tells myself people just keep me around to feel better about themselves.

[–] CommunistCuddlefish@hexbear.net 12 points 5 days ago (3 children)

The struggle is real with being perceived as threatening for having normal upset emotions.

[–] Wmill@hexbear.net 10 points 5 days ago (2 children)

Right, they're good to feel and I do with my family but outside with white people I sometimes feel like I gotta keep a happy dopey mask on. I also tend to come off as very apologetic and it's hard to turn off

[–] CommunistCuddlefish@hexbear.net 11 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (1 children)

Sounds like we might have the opposite approach to the same problem and are both suffering because the problem itself isn't one that can be fixed without fixing white people. It feels like a damned no matter what you do thing. I don't have the capacity to mask anymore but then I keep getting in trouble with white people for being open and honest about being a human being and having feelings that aren't just "I'm a bhoddisattva". It's frustrating, but the price of playing nice is frustrating too.

[–] Wmill@hexbear.net 10 points 5 days ago

yea it's very much a white people in general thing but I'm not holding my breath on them changing anytime soon just getting worse. badeline-disgust I've grown sicken with how many of them might have only been kind to me because of a white savior complex I'm dead certain that's the case to every white church I've frequented growing up with friends.

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