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!
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 for 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 discredited fascist/rascist pseudo-science.
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.
