Are there any communities or instances on this website for Asians or people of color to talk about racial politics?

holoyolo , 11 months ago

Check out beehaw.org/c/poc.

Ghostalmedia , 11 months ago

beehaw.org has a POC community and the mods are pretty strict on people not being dicks. They’re also looking to create some more communities for non-white folks. They’re often taking recommendations for new communities. They’d probably dig an AAPI community.

sneezy , 11 months ago

Note that beehaw defederated from lemmy.world and shitjustworks. Here’s a post talking about it.
lemmy.world/post/149743

Ghostalmedia , 11 months ago

True. You’ll need multiple accounts to post there.

HeyThisIsntTheYMCA , 11 months ago

Yeah, I thought about registering over there but i can be kind of a dick sometimes when the lumbago starts acting up or I haven’t pooped in three days so all y’all get my crumchy simpsons memes then

001100010010 , 11 months ago

We can start one. 😉 I was a former citizen of PRC, now a US citizen. Where are you from?

arktikos02 OP , 11 months ago

USA, AZ.

If I may ask, why did you flee?

001100010010 , 11 months ago (edited 11 months ago)

Lol I didn’t “flee”, my parents have a relative in the US that filed a petition for family based immigration. One of the major reasons was because of economic issues which was exacerbated by the Hukou system, which means My parents and I were essentially treated like immigrants within our own country. We were from a rural village, and even though my parents were able to save up for an apartment in the city and got a job, they still weren’t considered an actual resident. No free public school for kids, no any sort of benefits from the city. They had to pay for me to go to a private school which had worse education than the public ones (even though the “patriotic education” element of it was essentially on the same intensity). So when I was around age 7 and second grade in China, the immigration petition got approved and we got immigration visas, family of four, Father, Mother, Older Brother, and me. Oh did I mention I was the second born during the One-Child Policy, yea my parents bribed a government official to turn a blind eye about her second pregnancy. She eventually had to be sterilized after my birth so the government can ensure she doesn’t give birth to a third child.

So anyways, after a connection flight in Seoul, we arrived in JFK Airport. So here we are, in the US, and got naturalized a little more than 5 years after arrival.

Did you know how long the visa petition wait list was? More than 13 years! That’s longer than the time I’ve been here! (I’ve been here about 12 years approaching 13 years here.) The immigration petition was filed before I was even born!

bestdude , 11 months ago

She eventually had to be sterilized after my birth so the government can ensure she doesn’t give birth to a third child.

This sounds really messed up, among everything

Yeah China and India got some very long backlog because of the 7% per country policy

001100010010 , 11 months ago

On the bright side, I’m still alive. I guess killing someone that has already been born is harder to justify than killing me while I was still a fetus.

But you know what the worst thing was? She STILL BELIEVES IN CCP PROPAGANDA! So does my dad. I’m like y’all have no hope. Too far gone. Everytime they paise the CCP I’m just like “Oh so you think they should’ve killed me?”. At least now whenever someone spews CCP propaganda, I’ll just say “You know, the CCP tried to kill me…”

bestdude , 11 months ago

Well, that means CCP propoganda works as intended...

midorikusa , 11 months ago

By Asians do you mean Asian Americans or Asian Asians (lol)? I know my country’s subreddit and its sister subs moved to their own specific instance and racial politics is still very much prominent in our country.

jcb2016 , 11 months ago

Lol

PierreKanazawa , 11 months ago

I know that sub is full of negativists' complaints, but this title screams r/USdefaultism tbh.