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4 things white people can do to start making the fediverse less toxic for Black people (DRAFT!)
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this post was submitted on 04 Aug 2024
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I don't really understand why this is getting so massively downvoted.
Seems perfectly reasonable to me as a white person. Yes, point two could be more nuanced, but otherwise aren't all these downvotes kind of illustrating the point the OP is making here?
Probably the appeal to white guilt and call to action to specifically white people when the vast majority of people on the fediverse are not racist or “anti-black”
Maybe not the majority, but clearly it's common enough to warrant mentioning for the people affected by it.
I think examples might serve people better in this regard. It can be hard to accept things as real that you've never experienced, and don't fit with your lifetime of experiences, purely on faith alone.
Edit: I realize this is the exact opposite of "just accept other people have different experiences", but it's hard to deny that this is something a lot of people have trouble with in a lot of aspects of life. Expecting people to just override the natural state of viewing the world through their own personal lens is always going to be a hard ask.
People asking for examples are not always trying to find ways to tear other experiences apart. Sometimes they might need examples to help them understand better.