In 4 things white people can do to start making the fediverse less toxic for Black people (DRAFT!) and its cross-posts, quite a few people said things like “maybe racism is a problem on Mastodon, but I don’t see it on Lemmy.” Then again, plenty of comments in the various threads were in fact examples of racism on Lemmy, so one takeaway is that at lot of people don’t see racism even when they’re looking at it. And helpful commenters pointed out some of the other patterns of racism on Lemmy. … but that wasn’t really the thrust of that discussion.

So I wanted to ask more generally, what are some of the examples you’ve seen of racism on Lemmy? Quotes and links are great, but also feel free just to describe examples or call out more general patterns!

  • danekrae@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    3 months ago

    And I asked you to help find the examples you rambled about. But no, you didn’t provide any. Because you can’t. Seeing things that aren’t there.

    Actively achieving the opposite of what you want. Unless you are just trolling, in which case, good job…

    • The Nexus of Privacy@lemmy.blahaj.zoneOPEnglish
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      3 months ago

      You asked me to help you find the examples and I said no and suggested a technique that might work. It’s an answer, it’s just one you didn’t like. When you told me that you weren’t able to apply the technique successfully, I said

      Oh well. It sounds like you’ve got some work to do. The revised version of the article has some antiracism resources, so stay tuned.