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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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[–] Wmill@hexbear.net 4 points 12 hours ago

Been getting good at spotting undercover cop cars, I do my best to behave whatever but yeah I'm on to them also on the mind games they be playing on me. Me chilling in the park see one cop car pass by as a we're watching you and then the under cover piggies driving by thumb-cop at least here in cali they got the exempt license plate that they try to hide that part with a dealer frame thing.

[–] Angel@hexbear.net 5 points 21 hours ago

The woman who referred me to her job got to her manager and said that he is still hiring for the position she referred me to but just has been busy and slow with checking. She said he should get back to me soon.

It seems to be an easy enough job, and the position has been open quite a bit, so if they really need someone to start working ASAP, I'm right here! JFC.

[–] OthelloII@hexbear.net 6 points 1 day ago

ready for china to take over the matcha market for cheaper high quality matcha! lets go Guizhou!

[–] Wmill@hexbear.net 5 points 1 day ago (2 children)

At this point I'd rather hear something like "the cheek clapper" creepypasta than another goddamn skinwalker/wendigo/insert some other shit white people take and bastardize into their bs scary stories. At a certain point if you're gonna steal from other people's belief systems at least do a little research and put some effort in.

[–] Frogmanfromlake@hexbear.net 6 points 21 hours ago (1 children)

They’re funny because it takes a lot to become a skinwalker and there’s very few people who have made all the steps. The amount of stories and fake videos would have you believe the entire Navajo nation are skinwalkers.

[–] Wmill@hexbear.net 6 points 21 hours ago

That or they just make them mindless beasts or whatever, honestly using the term interchangeably for whatever story they want to make is so damn annoying.

[–] thelastaxolotl@hexbear.net 6 points 1 day ago (1 children)

one thing that pisses me off of the whitewashed skinwalker/wendigo stories is that they would work well as werewolf stories but for some reason writers dont like using them so they try to bastardise some native myth instead, its like if every vampire story used any undead creature to replace vampires

[–] Wmill@hexbear.net 5 points 1 day ago

I imagine a lot of it is just jumping on trends, werewolves are a solid pick I agree for most of the ones I've heard. The completely made up ones I prefer but they have to lend it credence by attaching it to something everyone vaguely knows in the online horror story circles.

[–] OthelloII@hexbear.net 12 points 1 day ago (1 children)

made the horrible mistake of looking at the general megathread omfg crackers are insufferable, vapid losers that shit on black art just becuase its too complex for them.

[–] Belly_Beanis@hexbear.net 8 points 1 day ago

You weren't kidding holy shit lmao

"Chat is it mindless slop when a vampire movie has more historical accuracy than whatever Jane Austin adaptation or war film is currently in theaters?"

[–] OthelloII@hexbear.net 10 points 1 day ago (1 children)

gonna be a full psl member soon!

[–] homhom9000@hexbear.net 8 points 1 day ago
[–] Wmill@hexbear.net 7 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Haven't posted here in a bit mostly thinking as soon as I post it'll get changed to a fresh one. Today's been nice, studying on my own and also spending time outside. The job search starts now that my training is over and I got what I hope are marketable skills. Got some big bills to look forward to catgirl-flop gotta help pull my family up and also deal with my own emotional baggage on the side.

[–] Lemmygradwontallowme@hexbear.net 6 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Alright, good luck to you, Wmill!

[–] Wmill@hexbear.net 7 points 2 days ago

Much appropriated already dreamt of having an office job, was horrible but eh prob a sign

[–] Angel@hexbear.net 7 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I will always call myself a leftist, but I sense that I'll never truly be comfortable with such a descriptor. I'm tired of all the white, performative bullshit. Most "leftists" I interact with seem like people who believe in entirely different things than I do.

[–] FunkYankkkees@hexbear.net 5 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

This place is just as yankee chauvinist as I left it. Joke of a supposed "People of color" community.
You people will make all the excuses for a fascist soldier, but none for the victim.

[–] detergent@hexbear.net 7 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (2 children)

Do you think you're the only victim of American imperialism here?

[–] durings@hexbear.net 14 points 3 days ago (1 children)

having a really hard time coping with loneliness and facing the facts that people would rather be friends with people who are agreeable, passive, and "easy to digest" at best, and literal SAers and fascists at worse, over me. they may even complain about these "friendships" to me and then continue to invest more time in them.

hard to trust peoples words at all anymore. i don't want to live like this. maybe it's actually a blessing that i have no attachments to this place community wise

[–] Belly_Beanis@hexbear.net 12 points 3 days ago

It's something I know I've experienced my whole life. People are okay catering to bigots' feelings because they don't want to get confrontational. This just makes bigots feel like what they're saying is true, so they continue their shitty behavior. When someone does confront their behavior, it blows up because the bigot isn't used to hearing someone disagree. Now the person who called things out is the bad guy. Never the fuckwad who thinks "That's just locker room talk."

"It is not enough to be not racist in a racist society. One must be actively anti-racist."

kamala-coconut-tree : The Alligator Alcatraz of Donald Trump is shameful, we are going to build a bigger more lethal one and give it a good name, I picked Puppy Alcatraz.

liberalism libbing-out

[–] durings@hexbear.net 11 points 4 days ago (1 children)

ibrahim traore thank you for inspiring me when no one else does

[–] Angel@hexbear.net 9 points 4 days ago

It rly do be like this fr

[–] Frogmanfromlake@hexbear.net 14 points 5 days ago (1 children)

“Crackkkerpoints” and “Ethan Klein ‘wife guyed’ himself into being a neo-nazi” are my favorite takes right now.

[–] la_tasalana_intissari_mata@hexbear.net 13 points 5 days ago (1 children)

I'm loving the hate their getting, I'm not a person who enjoys drama or sloptubers, but for some reason it's really enjoyable.

[–] Frogmanfromlake@hexbear.net 14 points 5 days ago (2 children)

Its nice to see after years of the internet defending racist whites like Pewdiepie

[–] Angel@hexbear.net 11 points 4 days ago

Relax! It was just a heated gamer moment! Chill out!

[–] HexaSnoot@hexbear.net 9 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (1 children)

How do you deal with how the western world view typically casts minorities as "exotic friendly little creatures" or "the devil. Literally demon beings."

Like, can you not see me as either please? Can you see me for me?

[–] Angel@hexbear.net 8 points 4 days ago (1 children)

As someone who's been called an "Oreo" my whole damn life, I noticed that people are so quick to reduce Blackness down to a set of stereotypes, and if you don't align with these stereotypes in any way, they will see you as some "special" kind of person.

It's how cracKKKers act all the time when interacting with me.

[–] Belly_Beanis@hexbear.net 9 points 3 days ago

Coconut/Twinkie/banana reporting in!

:beanis-salute:

[–] Rojo27@hexbear.net 13 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

I was out on a trip and had needed to go to the restroom. There was a line for the women's restroom (all of them were white) and one of them had their 3-4 year old son complaining about wanting to see his dad, who was in the restroom, in front of the men's restroom. I stood around for a second seeing if she would move her son out of the way and I started yawning. I didn't hear what the kid was saying, but from out of nowhere the mother say "Oh sorry, he said the n-word". And I'm like "huh". And she wasn't even speaking to me, instead the other women on line. I just turned back around because I had no idea what the fuck she was on about, but if your 3-4 year old is just dropping the n-word out of nowhere then I think you might have a problemanti-cracker-aktion

[–] hello_hello@hexbear.net 17 points 6 days ago

It hurts reading nerdy trans tech blogs and then getting gut punched with anticommunist brainworms. They'll whine about how "win-it-all capitalism" is bad and then in their next article use the Stalin-Yezhov photo as the "most famous example" of clean-up photo editing.

This is what I get for reading white people's writing kitty-birthday-sad

[–] Wmill@hexbear.net 15 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Been carrying around some of those red cards the ones that say to ICE "I do not consent to a search" etc. I really don't know how much it'll help but it gives me some ease also got some for my parents to have on hand. Seeing an article of how ICE agents are pretty much in it for treats doesn't not surprise me one bit amerikkka

[–] hello_hello@hexbear.net 13 points 6 days ago (1 children)

The treats aren't even that good, I remember reading about detention center guards who have to work 80+ hour weeks for no benefits.

It's just a terrible country where it's either that or you fall into a spiral of despair. Become a nazi to save yourself type country.

Death to Seppoland.

[–] Wmill@hexbear.net 11 points 6 days ago

yea this country sucks, I got some training in the hopes I find something but goddamn I keep getting offers on indeed for border patrol/secret service/fbi agent general pig fuckery not interested.

[–] Wmill@hexbear.net 14 points 6 days ago

It always feels odd when I talk to white people about racism since I usually feel a need to soothe things over or doubt my own perceptions around them. It's either no engagement or being dismissed and both kinda suck. I guess the latter sucks more when I mention something get dismissed and someone else says it and they agree. One example I remember saying was the racism in the yakuza series and my friends dismissing me for it being a crime game but when another white friend mentioned it they were like "you're on to something there." Sometimes I feel I'm kept around as amusement catgirl-flop and I'm too lonely to refuse.

[–] Angel@hexbear.net 17 points 6 days ago (1 children)

White queers not getting why I'd rather be in a room of 1,000 Black cishet people over a tiny circle of 5 white queers in and of itself proves my point.

[–] Wmill@hexbear.net 15 points 6 days ago

I feel this, do wish I had more queer poc friends tho

[–] vegeta1@hexbear.net 14 points 6 days ago

A lot of these blokes think pregnancy after SA is a blessing so of course they think colonialism and neocolonialism is a good thing.

Welp, thanks to all of you idiots that didn't want to vote for Mussolini, Hitler won the election

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