Seems perfectly reasonable to me as a white person. Yes, point two could be more nuanced, but otherwise aren't all these downvotes kind of illustrating the point the OP is making here?

[–] [email protected] 30 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Point 2 is exactly why it is being down-voted. A post about how the Fediverse is toxic to one race/skin colour shouldn't be telling people of a different race/skin colour to "post less".

Discrimination based on race isn't welcome, no matter who it's against.

[–] symthetics -3 points 3 months ago

Point 2 is better explained in the article. I don't take this as discrimination, more that while I will always aim to empathise and understand as much as I can about the black experience and be an ally, it's something I will never have direct experience of, so maybe there are some conversations that I don't need to muscle in on.

[–] TORFdot0 14 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Probably the appeal to white guilt and call to action to specifically white people when the vast majority of people on the fediverse are not racist or “anti-black”

[–] symthetics -2 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Maybe not the majority, but clearly it's common enough to warrant mentioning for the people affected by it.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

I think examples might serve people better in this regard. It can be hard to accept things as real that you've never experienced, and don't fit with your lifetime of experiences, purely on faith alone.

Edit: I realize this is the exact opposite of "just accept other people have different experiences", but it's hard to deny that this is something a lot of people have trouble with in a lot of aspects of life. Expecting people to just override the natural state of viewing the world through their own personal lens is always going to be a hard ask.

People asking for examples are not always trying to find ways to tear other experiences apart. Sometimes they might need examples to help them understand better.

[+] [email protected] -6 points 3 months ago (2 children)

Indeed. Funny how that works! Glad you thought it was reasonable, and agreed that point 2 needs work.

[–] symthetics -2 points 3 months ago

Yeah haha, I think point 2 is well explained in the article, maybe it's too generalised here.

Still good general advice for posting in my opinion, better to think in general.

[–] TORFdot0 -4 points 3 months ago (1 children)

I actually thought point two was the best point. Listening to the concerns is probably the best thing you could do, if you don’t think they apply to you, moving on about your day is the next best thing. Asking for proof of “anti blackness” is problem the worst thing to do.