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Examples of racism on Lemmy?

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!

finley ,

Lol

sub_ubi ,

There’s a collection here,

!shitreactionariessay

ThisIsAManWhoKnowsHowToGling ,
@ThisIsAManWhoKnowsHowToGling@lemmy.dbzer0.com avatar

Most people cannot see lemmygrad

UnH1ng3d ,

Why is that?

sub_ubi ,

.world censors left-wing instances

deegeese ,

Lemmygrad is infamous for hosting hate speech.

Being too left wing is not why Grad was deplatformed by everyone outside of the Marxist-Leninist circles.

Zombiepirate ,
@Zombiepirate@lemmy.world avatar

It’s defederated from .world, the largest Lemmy instance.

Drewfro66 ,
@Drewfro66@lemmygrad.ml avatar

Sounds like a .worlder problem

Chozo ,

Lemmygrad being blocked is not a problem for anybody.

UnH1ng3d ,

Thanks. I’m still learning how Lemmy works 😅

Zachariah ,
@Zachariah@lemmy.world avatar

Because with all the suffering in the world, it is difficult to envision utopia.

thenexusofprivacy OP ,

Thanks for the pointer.

bionicjoey , (edited )

The whole point of the fediverse is that it’s distributed. There’s gonna be bigots. But they can be blocked, their instances can ban them, and then they can make their own instances which other instances can then defederate. That’s working as designed. In a perfect world, the bigoted instances will be a disconnected graph from the network of other instances.

tacticalsugar ,

I don’t have links because they get banned pretty quickly, but over the last week I’ve seen maybe 4 or 5 examples of lemmy users referencing “the race card” (derogatory) in response to others talking about systemic racist violence.

frauddogg ,
@frauddogg@lemmygrad.ml avatar

It’s a whole lot of smug whites more than happy to talk over subjects-of-empire like this is still Reddit out here, split out between the likes of lemmy.world, sh.itjust.works, lemm.ee, and feddit.de-- that last one is because it’s Germans, though; no one’s expecting anything out of them but for them to go to bat for genocidal states lately.

At least the aggrieved ashen lords don’t make a habit of coming to specifically demarcated BIPOC spaces on the fediverse as much as they used to, ig.

OsrsNeedsF2P ,

There used to be Wolfballs, a right-wing Lemmy instance. I didn’t browse much but there was definitely ample racism there.

thenexusofprivacy OP ,

Good point, thanks. I seem to recall another one as well – although both were widely defederated so I suspect most people on those instances didn’t wind up seeing them.

Kyatto ,
@Kyatto@leminal.space avatar

I am sure there are instances I have forgotten, there is definitely a certain amount of bigotry, it’s not hard to find classism, sexism, and ableism as usual for the internet and I am sure I have come across racism too but I don’t remember any specifics.

thenexusofprivacy OP ,

Thanks!

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