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.” Of course, 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!
@10_0 @thenexusofprivacy nigger
@10_0 @thenexusofprivacy Very funny behavior lemmy
You know what time it is now.
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@10_0 @thenexusofprivacy Jackie Chan went to Xiongxing and said “Xingxiong xiong xing xing xiong.” His good friend, Martin Luther King, replied “I am a big ape, and therefore cannot speak your language.” However, Stephen Spielberg was hanging out in the ashtray, and he was able to speak to both monkeys and humans. Spielberg said, “It is time for us to eat.” They went to the local pet store and purchased a cat.