• Lime Buzz@beehaw.org
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    10 days ago

    The problem in many cases isn’t that they don’t literally see it but that they aren’t aware of what constitutes racism a lot of the time. That’s the primary issue here. That and they don’t listen to those that have to endure the harrasment, or don’t believe them.

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      10 days ago

      How can Mastodon fix this? How is this a Mastodon issue vs. any kind of social media?

      Mastodon is open source, as well, right? It feels like someone should be able to fork it if they’re really ignoring useful features that would help people.

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        10 days ago

        Yeah it’s not a mastodon issue any more than racist speech is an issue with our ability to vocalize as humans.

        Similarly, the solution to people saying racist things isn’t for all speech to be policed by a central authority, it’s for societies themselves to learn to identify and reject racism.