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!
Are we going to get one of these threads every few days?
As someone who is not a US citizen, I can’t understand what it’s all about. How could someone tell the color of the person who is participating? For me, everybody is just the same, and I can only judge them for what they’re saying, not who they are.
- Listen more to more Black people – and amplify their voices;
Isn’t it already done independently of the skin color of the person?
- Post less – and think before you post
I can only guess this point is lacking context.
- Call in, call out, and/or report anti-Blackness when you see it
I can’t say I have seen it, and I believe it happens a lot, so I guess people are reporting. That’s the better point of the list!
- Support Black people and Black-led instances and projects
If the message is good and promotes equality, normal people gravitate to it. Racist people will not care regardless of this text.
- Approach it intersectionally
What?
there’s an entire article attached you didn’t read before you decided to post this pointless nonsense, and the link’s right after the parts you quoted
I’m white and I don’t pretend to speak for black people, nor do I presume to dictate what sort of content they post in other fora, but given that pretending to be black online is a time-honored tradition of racists shits, this kind of stuff is … concerning: https://aussie.zone/post/3617992
- Post less – and think before you post
I support y’all, but I’m definitely not doing this. Instead, I encourage black folks to shit post more. Together we can make the internet a better place.
“post more pointless bullshit with less thought and also racism on the fediverse can be solved if Black people shitpost more” is an entire fuck of a take, but it tells me everything I need to know about whether or not you should be posting here
racism on the fediverse can be solved if Black people shitpost more
This indeed makes no sense. Exactly as much sense as the implication that white people posting less solves racism somehow. The article explains that that rule should be “if you’re white, post less on topics about race and if you do want to post, think about what you’re about to say”.
In conclusion: shitposting remains a free for all.
Yeesh, this escaped containment quickly, didn’t it?
Thanks for keeping our bar nazi-free!
with how much of a revolving door of covert white supremacists lemmy is, i can imagine it’s hard to boot them out faster than they come in. just federation things
