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I have seen a large number of otherwise presenting as perfectly normal fediverse instances about normal topics, where if you scroll down in the rules, the last
by LightHugger 2y ago
I have seen a large number of otherwise presenting as perfectly normal fediverse instances about normal topics, where if you scroll down in the rules, the last rule is "being racist against whites is not against the rules" or sometimes phrased "reverse racism is not real" or "reports about people expressing their pain towards groups such as whites and men will be ignored"
That's the truth of the context we're dealing with here, the pendulum has swung far enough that racist lunatics are incredibly common in positions of power on these instances.
Here is one example i found in 5 minutes, this is the first result for "academic mastodon" in search engines.
> Users of Scholar Social are expected to have the literacy to understand that "reverse discrimination" is not real, and so attempts to re-centre discussions of marginalized people around the feelings of the privileged will be taken as manipulative behaviour undertaken deliberately in bad-faith. (E.g. white people should not demand that people of colour put CW's on every discussion of race; a straight person who reports a queer person for writing "I hate straight people" may find their own account suspended.)
Like, whoever wrote this is a blatant bigot, and yet most of the high profile mastodon instances are run by people like this.
- ZunarJ5 2y agoThere is a lot of context for that you may want to consider reading up on, but I doubt you have interest, so why get angry? There is more than one instance to chose from. That community clearly isn't for you. It's a decentralised network with various niches. You don't have to engage with everyone. It's not Twitter.
- LightHugger 2y agoThere is no defense or context whatsoever that justifies racial, gender or sexuality based hatred being directly defended and encouraged in the rules of a community. I also find it interesting, last post you were suggesting people consider the perspective of an uninformed outsider. Now it's "Oh there's context inside the community". Take your own advice.
- ZunarJ5 2y agohttps://www.theguardian.com/news/2021/apr/20/the-invention-of-whiteness-long-history-dangerous-idea https://www.theguardian.com/news/2021/apr/20/the-invention-o... Try to do something more than just react blindly to what people are saying, it makes for an unhappy life.
- LightHugger 2y agoDo you have a point you're making beyond there being a long history of racism in humankind? We know. The choice is to end it or continue it. You appear to choose to continue it, though you seem to be afraid of elaborating beyond one sentence even as you re-edit your post 3 times. Honestly I think going back to basics and just thinking about how prejudice affects individual people at the most fundamental level would do you a ton of good.