In 4 things white people can do to start making the fediverse less toxic for Black people (DRAFT!) and its cross-posts, quite a few people said things like “maybe racism is a problem on Mastodon, but I don’t see it on Lemmy.” Then again, plenty of comments in the various threads were in fact examples of racism on Lemmy, so one takeaway is that at lot of people don’t see racism even when they’re looking at it. And helpful commenters pointed out some of the other patterns of racism on Lemmy. … but that wasn’t really the thrust of that discussion.

So I wanted to ask more generally, what are some of the examples you’ve seen of racism on Lemmy? Quotes and links are great, but also feel free just to describe examples or call out more general patterns!

  • ToastedPlanetEnglish
    7·
    3 months ago

    The Modlog has examples.

    https://lemmy.blahaj.zone/modlog

    I had an argument about Black hair styles being banned in schools with a user who turned out to be sealioning. The user tried to frame it as solely a men’s issue. The user went so far as to try to invent a cultural history of long hair styles for white men in the US. When in fact, this issue disproportionately affects Black women. The user of course ignored all the data from the study that I cited in my argument. edit: typo

    https://www.aclutx.org/sites/default/files/dresscodereport_2-1-24.pdf

    • The Nexus of PrivacyOPMEnglish
      3·
      3 months ago

      Thanks, doubly helpful! I didn’t know about modlog, and that is a great example (and classic about ignoring all the data). Greatly appreciated!