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5 things white people can do to start making the fediverse less toxic for Black people (privacy.thenexus.today)

submitted 4 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Here's the list:

Listen more to more Black people – and amplify their voices
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
Approach it intersectionally

The full article goes into detail, and also has links to anti-racism resources and appendices with a list of common mistakes to avoid and blocklist resources for moderators.

Thanks to everybody who gave feedback on earlier drafts!

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[–] [email protected] 0 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 children)

There is no such thing as biological race. Race is a purely social construction. People are "white", not because of some imaginary gene or imaginary scientific classification, but because their skin is pale enough to be socially privileged.

So, while it's true that "white people" can never stop being "white" in the sense of social privilege, it is absolutely possible to pale skinned people to recognize that "whiteness" is a phony racist category and thus to disassociate and dis-identify with this completely unjust and irrational system.

The alternative that you're promoting is "race realism" which is a fascist/rascist pseudo-science.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 4 months ago (1 children)

If you want to call it skin color instead of race you can, but that's just a semantic argument, which I don't care to engage with.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 4 months ago (1 children)

time for you to fuck off

[–] [email protected] 0 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

and of course their recent post history is just sealioning

e: and, fucking amazingly, they posted this in a different thread at almost the same time as their reply here:

What is a ‘race realist’?

so they really didn’t fucking read what they were replying to