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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Adelaide Casely-Hayford, born on this day in 1868, was a Sierra Leone Creole Pan-African feminist, educator, and author. Hayford established a vocational school for young girls in Sierra Leone that emphasized racial and cultural pride.
https://www.blackpast.org/global-african-history/hayford-adelaide-smith-casely-1868-1960/
I hope you nerds have a good month of June 
Remember no crackers
socialism has became like a bad word when you mention it around arabs.
yup the situation is very bleak
Why is that?
Probably because the Ba'athists became compromised by the US after some CIA meddling, coupled with increased nationalism (the Ba'ath Party advocated for a pan-Arabic state to unify the Arabs under socialism), would be my guess.
Another reason is because we don't really have social media. It's basically all US owned so standard socialism bad BS, but even then these platforms are filled with state-sponsored trolls (dhababat, flies) who basically astroturf the whole digital space so much that you literally cannot have a voice or normal discussion with real people. I don't even bother with arab social media, it's genuinely unusable. It's like how reddit and eglin AFB, but turned up to 15.
Look up a twitter thread of somebody criticizing any arab state and see the very real and very human accounts with the flag of it as their pfp and all their posts are nationalist roll in lmao, it happens to even the mildest suckdems saying "our nation can do better"