A lot of these blokes think pregnancy after SA is a blessing so of course they think colonialism and neocolonialism is a good thing.
Ethnic Minorities and People of Color
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
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 problem
American "I am so depressed to be American. I don't recognize my country."
Us in the third world "
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 and I'm too lonely to refuse.
The leftist gaming club didn't gatekeep liberals, so of course they did a fundraiser for veterans on 4th. of July. It was a nice thought while it lasted.
Never trust gamers
Definitely an example of what no theory does to a motherfucker. They're just going off vibes and aesthetics.
They poison the well, they call you if you die of thirst, and if you get sick from it
and when you realize it's poisoned and that if you keep drinking it you'll only get sicker, you are ostracized for questioning the source, people feel insulted because they'd rather keep drinking the poisoned water because that's what they're used to doing and everyone else does it and now you're forced to find a clean well somewhere else instead of just banding together and cleaning out the well you already have.
Am I justified in getting a bad vibe from this message this British leftist sent me?
[CW: Islamophobic/Pinkwashing/New Atheist Vibe]
Yeah I feel that. Ones thing that pisses me off with the left in the UK is the cosying up to radical muslims united only by pro-palestine and pro-workers rights. I’m sorry I don’t give a fuck how anti-genocide and anti-capitalism you are, if you think queer people are disgusting and women should be treated like slaves because “man in sky said so” I have no respect for you.
Am I justified in getting a bad vibe from this message this British
Let me stop you there.
Yes.
spoiler
“man in sky said so” the person knows nothing about Islam, not even the most basic part of it which is that Muslims don't see god as a man, and a "leftist" believing it's the fault of the religion or the believers of it for having reactionary ideas instead of the boot enforced on them, there's not a single Muslim country right now not facing either western interference or colonialism and comes with it illiteracy and the spread of reactionary misinformation, when Saudi Arabia doesn't attack israel even though Islam tells it to do so, they're not imprisoning gay people because Islam tells them.
An educated leftist should know
-the difference between reactionary ideas of an oppressed group vs the reactionary ideas of the oppressors even if they share it
-Muslims in the UK are usually descendants of ex-UK colonies in Africa and south Asia.
-the effects of infiltration and propaganda funded by western governments against minorities.
Another observation: "cosying up to radical muslims" and "women should be treated like slaves" I don't see that in effect, I don't see leftists in the UK lining up shoulder to shoulder with ISIS and the likes, unless they mean by radical Muslims Hamas and the PIJ who don't believe that women should be treated like slaves, or this person believes any man with a beard is an Al Qaeda member.
but idk
At this point, I wanna marry tofu
Mi Gente is it time to leave the US? Like all bullshit aside is it time to get out financial consequences be damned?
I feel like "they just made the concentration camp budget 150 billion dollars" is as good an indicator as any. And even if it's not now there's no pathway I can see for improvement for this place. It will get there eventually.
Any time is a good time to get out of the U.S
I remember growing up and thinking that most crackers were good and the bad ones were just an extremely tiny fraction of them because we all took care of the racists back in the 1960s, right? This shows you just how misleading our education system is.
Of course, I realized it's actually the opposite. Even when I meet a cracker who seemingly shows a lot of signs of "being one of the good ones," I still feel like they're racist as shit.
I've even had other Black leftists tell me that I'm too skeptical of white people. I really would hope that they, of all people, could understand the amount of damage that whiteness has done to me. I cannot even describe it here because 1) at this point, it's so heavy that I don't even feel like a CW/spoiler can prepare someone for the sheer weight of the racial trauma I have and 2) I can't even find the right words if I wanted to. It's just indescribably bad.
Even the good ones I met ask them about my country or others in africa and....dear oh dear.
my country or others in africa
ehm you mean cities in Africa, because Africa is a country
Thanks for the laugh! Hahahahahahahaha
Looking forward to another day of training, mostly a lot of down time fixing up a office so gonna be listening to some audiobooks when I can or podcasts. Got my lunch ready mexican rice, frijoles de la olla and some carne de soya. Also got like an hour or two to kill when I get there so prob gonna get some study on hvac done. This whole grind to try to get a better lot in life is difficult keep hoping it's worth it in the end.
This chucklefuck is trying to blame the flooding death toll on DEI. The dumbest fucks on the planet
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/charlie-kirk-texas-floods-dei-death-toll-b2785957.html
People don’t eat out at restaurants because they save money.
While that’s true for me, my biggest reason is I don’t fucking like interacting with a vast majority of servers witht heir brainworms about ‘canadians’ and then having to fucking pay them for bad service
well, after months of deliberation i finally bought a one way ticket to portugal and planning to slowly make my way from there to either asia or africa. still have a day to chicken out and refund but i mean i've been desperately searching for a reason to not just up and leave the country, the bar has been barely above the ground, and still haven't found even one reason so doubt anything will change in the next day.
i'm not necessarily looking forward to it, still trying to get past the "i wish things were different" mentality. just seems like the only thing left to do besides succumbing to hopelessness. i'm hoping the journey will alleviate my misanthropic thoughts and lead to finding my people, but i know it's best to not have any expectations. i'm also worried about what happens when i run out of the very little money i do have or potential prejudice especially in europe but fuck it i want to do less thinking and more action
the only thing i will miss is my computer. still thinking if i should even bring a laptop since i plan to mostly camp
i'm not necessarily looking forward to it, still trying to get past the "i wish things were different" mentality. just seems like the only thing left to do besides succumbing to hopelessness.
Well good luck. Even the journey doesn't satisfy, in terms of finding your people, it'll alleviate you some what I suppose.
the only thing i will miss is my computer. still thinking if i should even bring a laptop since i plan to mostly camp
I'd wish you bring one.
Saw an Instagram reel where a white woman said "the caucasity" and it made me cringe a billion different times in 70 dimensions all at once.
Is this normal?
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?
http://www.nbcnews.com/news/amp-video/mmvo243104325675 Well done to him. I'm surprised they didn't charge the man stopping a clear hate crime with assault
Whenever I see something on the internet like "down with cis people" or something of the sort, I think about this tweet and I think about how many transgender settler child-killing nazis are in the iof.
And I think about how western theories & discourses of social justice have been revealed as completely inadequate in the age of al Aqsa Flood.
Western Academia/NGO/Social Justice Pipeline: replacing analysis of colonialism and post/neo-colonial class dynamics with identity politics and calling it radical.
(No I'm not against trans people...)
Settler feminism, settler trans rights, settler worker rights... All settlers before anything else
~~Well, tbh, I first thought this grafitti could go either way, from Falastini or Israeli. I don't see any signs of it being Israeli.~~
But ok, the main antagonism is Israeli settler-colonialism.
Now, you may be wondering about, and you too as well, but why in the late times, just an hour after midnight?
I shouldn't have drunk that chai very late