redandgreen @redandgreen@sunbeam.city

@Bashabez @ArtistMarciaX Perhaps not my place to comment but otherwise it seems like these people aim to tokenize their identity for political and social clout that they don't actually have substantive claims to, yeah? Whiteness definitely comprises part of the problem here, but certainly Warren's lack of a history in indigenous/tribal activism worries me.

Thanks for making #SameSexMarriage legal #NorthernIreland

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https://www.advocate.com/node/1056691

The emotional impact of white people's juvenile taunts and attempts to demonize my name pales in comparison to the messages I get from Black and Brown folks who recognize what I'm trying to do and affirm my continuous efforts to bring about an authentic community that affirms and protects them.

There will never be a moment where I get tired of creating better online spaces for them.

@Are0h Aye. The incensing of the dominant group has always provided a compass for the visionaries of liberation.

There is one thing white people can do though and it is to draw attention to a little-known injustice from POC/ethnic groups that have low to no representation in the place they're at. But, that discussion without a POC voice to point to is incomplete at best. Otherwise, your perspective will always be second-hand, and no matter how good your intentions are, you're bound to get it wrong, or worse, sound like you're talking over someone who desperately needs a voice. Give them a megaphone, don't just read what they wrote and repeat it.

It isn't an easy thing for white people to be told "you're not the victim here," because a lot of people want to have sympathy and solidarity.

Sympathy and solidarity are fine but be mindful you are not experiencing any of this directly.

They are.

And be mindful the racist system benefits you on their backs.

In that context, what could you possibly say? That it's fucked up and wrong? No shit it's wrong. But if you're not directly affected, you can't say much more than that. Even if you heard it from a POC, point people to them, don't pretend to be enlightened and that you're doing a good thing for them, that's what colonialists do. You're silencing them to say your piece instead.

best things white people can do:

1) listen

2) tell other white people to listen

there's nothing white people can add to discourse about racism

this was something we had to realise a long time ago

so shut up and listen to POC

especially the shut up part

they are the ones who should speak on racism, not white folks

you can't add anything to this discussion because it's not yours, you aren't affected to be honest, /they/ are

you might mean well but you're not helping

@cypnk That said, congrats on moving forward and hosting your own email. Dovecot+Postfix+Roundcube+SA make email a truly lovely experience. More people should really do it.

That said if using SA, use a DB backend. Filebackend is a bit twitchy.

https://likeable.space/notice/9qwGoknsLbUGV0M5lQ

Hey, techbros! Repeat after me...

DON'T SCRAPE WITHOUT CONSENT

For those of you who run mastodon 3.0+ and wanna make it way more difficult for scrapers, enable auth fetches and disable anonymous access to the public tl

.env.production: AUTHORIZED_FETCH=true
/admin/settings: [uncheck] Allow unauthenticated access to public timeline

You know what infuriates me (one of many)? That primary school history courses in the United States often still attempt to justify the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Can we not even show the slightest remorse for different cultures overseas? From youth, the US trains people to adopt nationalistic perspectives on the rest of the living world. God knows how many adults today need to unlearn that shit.

Annoyed with my father's characterization of Indigenous cultures as anti-science because of the "Kennewick man" case in 1996. Indigenous Americans do not *reject* science (see the various ways in which different Indigenous groups practice methodologically finding empirical knowledge, i.e., science), they resist *exploitation*. "Science" has long been a tool of the US government (*especially* through genetic studies) to oppress indigenous people (see blood quantum laws).

@tjmuessig there's a lot to discover about ourselves when we do away with whiteness!

Whiteness needs to die. We, white Jews, and all white peoples, need to discover who we are without it, who we can be without domination and cruelty and avarice and fear of the other.

I believe in building those bonds, for my people, for us all to be in one struggle together, the struggle for a world of justice and joy. To participate in this struggle means attacking my own whiteness as much as possible, replacing that network of privileges and violences with real connection to my people and other peoples.