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!

  • deegeese
    76·
    3 months ago

    Sorry I haven’t visited a hate site recently, you can wade through it if you’re really curious.

          • AchtungDrempels@lemmy.world
            62·
            3 months ago

            I did not say it was racist. The definition of hate speech i read up included national origin as a target, but i guess there is no clear cut definition.

            My personal scale says that i don’t want to hang out in a group where people say stuff like that and being upvoted for it, even if it is against germans.

          • intensely_human@lemm.ee
            22·
            3 months ago

            Racism is racism. Unless you want to get technical and quibble about whether Germans are a “race” or not, that comment is pretty clearly inciting violence against a certain people as such.