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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Hello my comrades i hope you all have a good week 
Remember no crackers
> walk into leftist group
> ask organizer if group is Covid Conscious, actually antiracist, and supports decolonization or if it's reddit leftism
> "I don't know what you mean sir"
> show her illustrative diagram
> She chuckles, "it's a good group sir"
> join group
> it's reddit leftist
Are there a bunch of "resistance" liberals LARPing as Harry Potter young adult dystopia Hunger Maze Trial fighters, thinking they're leftist? Because that sounds insufferable.
Americans always talk about soldiers having PTSD like it's the worst thing, what do they think about literal children in the countries they invaded having PTSD?
Oh look a bunch of crackers can't help but show their whole asses as being reactionary, means testing libs. Glad to know there are conditions on the mutual aid comm even though there aren't supposed to be conditions.
It's giving me a fuck ton of anxiety because I literally have only been able to stay alive in my current prolonged struggle because of c/mutual_aid, really.
With the medicaid cuts today, I may be in the same boat soon. I'm disabled with over a ten-year gap in my work history with no college degree. Nobody is going to hire me and I especially wouldn't get accommodations (I know because I've looked). Guess I'll just not eat food or something? IDK. Can't rely on these """"leftists""" that's for sure.
Seeing you go off in this thread really was the kind of relief I needed right now. I am having major panic attacks right now due to me grappling with the brutal reality of the injustice that could happen to me if some of these proposed changes (that were clearly thought of on a whim—pulled straight from the ass) actually went through. Jesus fucking Christ, I already hate bleach demons enough as is, but the way any struggle session seems to go on Hexbear makes me realize that I still have potential to hate them more.
I really find the performativity glaring. "Leftists" on this site (and all across the internet really) will say shit like, "It's so fucked up that capitalism literally kills people for not being profitable!" and "It's a shame that Black transfems have disporportionately high rates of homelessness and unemployment alongside a high likelihood of being victims of hate crimes!"
But like with many other things, when an issue starts to be less of an abstract horror that they can post outrage about and is actually something they'd have to face the reality of, even not as the direct victims and even if just through words on a screen, white and/or privileged leftists would rather shame people for their material conditions leaving them hopeless and desperate in a society that sees them as a disposable machines at best.
People are concerned about some potential scams on this comm, so their solutions are to literally suggest things that will put marginalized people at risk of potentially the worst shit they could have to put up with? That makes no fucking sense to me, especially since c/mutual_aid has always been about donating at your own discretion. It's not like Hexbear mods are lining people up, calculating their wages, and forcing them to donate to posts where the OP indicates desperate need.
Type of people to ask for ID to prove you're hungry while running a free soup kitchen
But like with many other things, when an issue starts to be less of an abstract horror that they can post outrage about and is actually something they'd have to face the reality of, even not as the direct victims and even if just through words on a screen, white and/or privileged leftists would rather shame people for their material conditions leaving them hopeless and desperate in a society that sees them as a disposable machines at best.
It makes me doubt their conviction. When the Red Terror starts, are these so-called "leftists" going to choke at pulling a trigger? If they get captured, are they going to snitch on people who trusted them? If they're so easily scratched at anonymous forum posts, they'll crack under pressure when it comes time to carry out actual revolution.
Their leftism is entirely performative. It's merely an aesthetic to them seperate from liberalism and fascism. They're anarkiddies with a veneer of literacy. Everything is hypothetical, nothing has actual consequences.
It's not like Hexbear mods are lining people up, calculating their wages, and forcing them to donate to posts where the OP indicates desperate need.
Saw some of the posts early on and just SMFH. "Waaa, what if there's scammers?" Wow, so what? If there are people here so concerned with scammed, just don't give money. Simple as. This concern trolling is just so fucking hypocritical. Especially on a leftist platform where Dems/libs are constantly criticized for means testing.
Finally the good statement
FD Signifier became anti-Traore and share an article that says he is basically "African MAGA"
Western leftists really not beating the allegations of benefitting too much from living in the Imperial Core to be considered proles.
Of course, I don't know how much he makes in a month from his videos. He may fall under petite-bourgeois if he has people on his payroll for stuff like editing and marketing. It would mean his class interests have aligned with NATO over AES. He's also been a liberal AFAIK, never a full-on socialist. How you can understand intersectionality and remain a lib is beyond me.
Vladimir Liberal, "Nothing is to be Done" hours
Pan-Africanism in theory: 
Pan-Africanism in practice: 
Do people on this site rock with him like that? He always came across as lib tbh
i seen his videos get posted here sometimes but also people here do criticise him for getting to a lib position in his videos
He also gave a shout out to Yugopnik I think in one of his videos, as someone further left in the pipeline than himself but still with good stuff to say it (at least I think that's what he was saying).
no arguments are stupider than when third worlders and first world poc argue, because of them are used to arguing with white people so you get shit like calling a black person a colonizer or calling a person from Myanmar a krakkker.
I think that explains actually why two of our users left... (frauddogg and FunKKKYankees) let's hope that doesn't occur again
it happens too many times, there's not hope, only the fact that everyone no matter how privileged or underprivileged they are must learn about other people's history and the complexity of hierachies and whatever else there is, and it's not about struggle olympics or who has it worse, like one fears being pulled over by U.S. cops and shot the other fears being killed by U.S. soldiers, it isn't hard or impossible to stop, just learn about others.
it happens too many times, there's not hope, only the fact that everyone no matter how privileged or underprivileged they are must learn about other people's history and the complexity of hierachies and whatever else there is, and it's not about struggle olympics or who has it worse, like one fears being pulled over by U.S. cops and shot the other fears being killed by U.S. soldiers, it isn't hard or impossible to stop, just learn about others.
Amen, Sandouq_Dyatha
Liberals today in response to Trump's post on Truthsocial: Wow, maybe instead of posting a hateful rant he should honor the men and women that are sent all over the world to terrorize POC in service to empire
Bassem youssef and bad hasbara on a gave a good point. They've never seen so much silence from anti establishment comedians like gervais on a topic like they have on israel. And gervais whole brand is "oh did I offend you?" And not much else
Because the anti-establishment comedians think shock-jock humor is some groundbreaking territory and that everyone believes the same vile shit they do. I’ve been watching a number of US comedians lately and almost every single one goes off on a rant about how sensitive people are. Some of these guys were saying it back in the 90’s and 2000’s.
Boxing rant. I despise the fans of boxing. How do you make a term called Mexican style and it isn't insulting? Legitimately? Its a catch all term for rock em sock em robots. Just taking shots to the head no skill. Even elite pressure fighters aren't moving like that all the time. How do people think this is a compliment? Do people look at the great Mexican fighters and think they didn't have immense skill?
Cesar chavez sr had elite head movement and defense in and out the pocket. He wouldn't go 80-0 without it. Salvador Sanchez movement was so effortless he mat as well have been floating. He had one of the highest boxing IQs ever seen. Juan Manuel Marquez is one of the greatest counter punchers period. Finito lopez had almost no technical weakness. Mfs don't know shit about boxing 
"America is founded by slaveowners who wanted to be free" George Carlin
replace George Carlin with Domenisco Losurdo and that's his thesis for "liberalism: a counter history"
Me every single day: if these fucking crackers cared about racism just 1% as much as the issues that affect them
What are you talking about? They're affected by anti-white racism because of woke!!!
Honestly, its kinda hypocritical for us to not care about anti white racism, the biggest modern day issue
-White genocide happening in South Africa
-Less and less white representation in popular media
-Losing out on jobs because of DEI
You may laugh, but these are all real issues facing white people. Who will be brave enough to stand up for them?
The fact that c/em_poc is the only place on this site where I and other POC Hexbears (not speaking for everybody here) can feel like we don't have to overwhelmingly worry that we're going to see some disappointing bullshit really tells you about the state of white leftists.
When I talk to white people I sometimes say "In my culture/my people say/we have a saying over here" before quoting or referencing an obscure TV show from around here and pretend it's wise posting, they buy it pretty well.
Posting here because I dont want honkey discourse.
"Allies"
Allies mad at decolonial violence because their genocidal family members might get what's coming to them. 🫠
a bunch of orgs that literally werent forced to put out statements condeming the shooting, still posting just because
I built my algorithm well. I get reels from across the world.
I got random West African News, next to gay Pakistani thirst traps, to South Indian memes, to random theory posting from commie accounts, to your usual in trend and inevitable USA and Western memes, to Caribbean cooking, to Chinese language learning.
That doesn’t even cover half of it and I wouldn’t want it any other way.
It's lentil time...
(The lentils don't look very saucy, but there is a glaze on them. I really just threw together a bunch of ingredients that I do have to make them taste good.)
You know that feeling in your gut you get when you feel that a white leftist performing outrage about something terrible and getting tons of positive recognition about it is totally fake, LARPing, and doesn't actually give a fuck about justice? Looking back, I had this feeling way too little on HB.
No honkies can really be exempt. Sometimes, I get in my head this feeling, "HB has many of some of the good whites!" but I realized that taking that feeling at face value just keeps setting me up for more and more growing disappointment.
Your basic white leftist himbo on Instagram talking about how much he really opposes white supremacy 🙄🙄🙄 for clout and white leftists on HB are not really significantly different levels of performative. I think that's why this site makes me depressed when I see bad cracker takes on it. I keep having too high expectations.
Seeing white people say virtue signaling bullshit on mainstream social media has always been expected for me, but my mind took far too long to connect the dots in knowing that Hexbear isn't truly different with this.
Got invited to the final stage of the interview for the trans clinic job (it's because of woke and DEI obviously)
This interview is with the person who'd actually be my boss, but I already interviewed the person who serves as her boss specifically.
Let's hope this goes well 😬
I see a post with 200+ replies, refuse to look inside, and instead ask the only normal people (the person reading this post 🙂) on this site for a rundown on who's right and who's being stupid.
if you mean the volcel police post its just the same porn/sex discourse we had before
Hearing the handful of white people in the crowd at the theater gasp at the first N-word being dropped in blazing saddles and then forgetting about doing that again for the subsequent ones was interesting. Hearing one of them shame on this town for so little people coming out to see this film and when I said "hell yeah this my second time watching it" because I wanted to be social and talk to people as the movie ended I just got a yeah... as they walked away.
Man it's a weird feeling when white people do this, performatively gasp at the N-word but not wanting to talk to brown people. There's only so many "I'm just super attractive and intimate people" monologues I can do after the fact when things like this happen.
I think I might have to refuse to use Hexbear besides this mega and mutual_aid again.
I actually am constantly feeling extremely terrible. I am crying right now, and I was crying last night before I slept.
I am losing my ability to function because I am honestly still extremely distressed by that comment that sided with my brother when I posted that rant on c/chat.
It is affecting me to the point of avoidance and I feel deeply scared of interacting with anybody because of how it's influencing me.
I'm horrified, constantly shaking, and panicking, and some would say I'm being dramatic, but that comment was the most upbeared out of any other comment on that thread. The worst part is that I can never forget it. If I had known this would make me unable to function, I would've never made that post to begin with, but now my mental health is in a state of being extremely fucked because I made that mistake, and I can't risk this happening on Hexbear again.
This site already has enough triggering shit as is, but none of the users on this site would ever realize it because they have too many white blindspots, but seeing a comment that leaves me in a state of constant panic is genuinely making me worried to unhealthy levels. I have had constant moments where I've had to put down a task just to cry and stress out over this, and it makes me feel utterly hopeless... I get horrified because my mind is like, "I can't keep living being like this," but also I do see some reasons to try to carry on... What sucks is that I'm scared to the point where I'm thinking of avoiding my new friend and everyone else I interact with, online or otherwise. The uncertainty is scary... I say to myself, "I genuinely cannot live because of this. It's too painful."
