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Examples of racism on Lemmy? (lemmy.blahaj.zone)

submitted 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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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!

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[–] [email protected] 12 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

Thanks for the shoutout

Edit: and I think its actually messed up you're using my words one to one to imply racism on a platform I scroll religiously where user profiles do not even show race, sex, or really anything. Especially when your solution is to add segregation in the form of separate rules for white people and black people.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago

Sure! There were actually several good examples in the thread you were in. But, it'll be interesting to see what else people point to.