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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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Oh look, it's another old white guy trying to solve a problem he's not affected by and probably hasn't personally experienced.
Edit: Sorry that was so negative, but these are all pretty basic things you're stating. Anyone likely to read this list and action items like this, is likely already staunchly pro black.
Would be good to see some more items that would make people do a double take and say "oh, I do that, I didn't realize that could be construed as anti black". Use your experience as a non black person to try and identify ways that a white person might be impacting black people unintentionally.
These things are basic, but most white people aren't doing them -- even people who think of themselves as staunchly pro Black. And there are multiple examples in the article of how white people might be impacting Black people unintentionally, for example thisiswomanswerk talks about how hand-wringing messages of symptay many times are themselves microaggresive, and suggestions like "Stop asking Black people for evidence of the anti-Blackness" and "Stop telling Black people that they'll experience less racism if they change instances (aka servers)"