Comment on 4 things white people can do to start making the fediverse less toxic for Black people (DRAFT!)

• adespoton@lemmy.ca ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Color blindness perpetuates structural racism. On the Internet, nobody knows you’re a goldfish.

  There’s the cultural issues, but those aren’t limited to African Americans vs White Americans on the Internet.

  Your rules should apply to everyone, including those two groups. The trickier part is dealing with privilege.

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• Beacon@fedia.io ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  That doesn't apply to online forums. There is LITERALLY no way to determine someone's race from what they write. Unless you're suggesting we open every discussion by asking what a person's race is before we start talking to them? Better yet we can skip that and simply put demographic badges next to people's username, like a yellow star for Jewish people, a pink triangle for homosexuals, and... hm, that sounds familiar, where has that happened before?

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  • FaceDeer@fedia.io ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Maybe add some kind of flag to ActivityPub that's set to your skin colour? Each comment could have a colored border corresponding to your skin tone.

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    • kbal@fedia.io ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      It may sound crazy, but there is a precedent:

      @Column('boolean', {
      	default: false,
      	comment: 'Whether the User is a cat.',
      })
      public isCat: boolean;
      

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• Fizz@lemmy.nz ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  No offense but that paper is not at all relevant to the situation described in this thread.

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