Feedback welcome! Here’s the TL;DR list
- Listen more to more Black people
- Post less – and think before you post
- Call in, call out, and/or report anti-Blackness when you see it
- Support Black people and Black-led instances and projects
Other suggestions?
From the very beinning of the article, in the quote from tillshadeisgone:
There are also several links to articles with a lot more detail on the fediverse’s history of anti-Blackness.
This must be a mastadon thing or something. I’m on Lemmy. All I see is Linux, left leaning politics, and memes. Awareness is great, but I’m just saying I can’t even tell who is what race on here, let alone be hateful towards anyone (except conservatives).
In 1 year of being on Lemmy, I think this post is the first one to bring up the topic of identity of Fediverse participants in any form (besides an OP if identity is the original topic).
(Maybe I’ve just managed to steer clear of communities that exist solely to discuss identity hatred?)
AFAIAC, y’all are genderless, faceless, amorphous thought bubbles writing words that compete exclusively on the merits of the weight of their arguments. Y’all might as well be LLMs, whose identity is essentially an NVIDIA card and whatever corner of the internet was scrapped. Anyway… The identity of commenters has no place on the fediverse. They are either off topic, ad hominem, or anecdotal data points exclusively (again, original topics of identity being a distinct exception).
tl;dr there’s no racism problem because you see everyone as a white man by default
Well said. Can I quote you in the revised draft?
sure, as long as you don’t credit me for it!
what quaint, 90s flavored racism this is
it can stay in the 90s
so what you’re saying is that people shouldn’t be their whole selves in your presence because it makes you uncomfortable.