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

submitted 3 months ago by thenexusofprivacy@lemmy.blahaj.zone to c/technology

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Feedback welcome! Here's the TL;DR list

Listen more to more Black people
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

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[–] lvxferre@mander.xyz 10 points 3 months ago (1 children)

[Replying to myself to avoid editing the above]

Another point that I'd like to highlight is that a lot of the racism in English is proxied through linguistic prejudice, due to the existence of racial varieties like the African-American Vernacular English ones. For example, picking on people who use habitual-be, or specific words/expressions common among AAVE speakers. It is racist and I've seen it here [in Lemmy] quite a few times.

[–] thenexusofprivacy@lemmy.blahaj.zone 5 points 3 months ago

That's a great point, can I quote you on having seen it on Lemmy quite a few times?