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The Racism which happened in FOSS (beehaw.org)

submitted 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Hello, so a few days ago now, a lot of Racism happened in FOSS and we were wondering what happened to those that were racist by defending the cultural appropriation which was pointed out, either directly or by ridicule.

Sadly the original post (and thus the comments) is gone, though we saved screenshots of all the offending people and posts.

We would like to know if anything was done about these people as we can see nothing in the modlog.

Thanks.

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[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 week ago (14 children)

Hey there! Would you be able to provide more context on the post? A few of us have talked and none of us can recall the post you mention. It appears many of us may have missed it. Thanks! :)

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (12 children)

There was a post by Elise from here about supporting Pixelfed and Loops financially and I pointed out correctly that the creator of both is a well known cultural appropriator and as such should probably not be supported financially until he stops such behaviour.

Proof was provided via a link to a thread on mastodon since somebody asked for more information. Many people then took to defending him and the cultural appropriation and JAQed off (Just Asking Questions) in public or got extremely hostile to myself and others including a black person who is hopefully still on this instance despite all the increasing incredulity and hostility we had to face.

It ended up with some (which as I said I can provide screenshots for) mocking the very concept of cultural appropriation because of 'natural language evolution' and as such denouncing the very real history and modern day effects of colonialism etc including some other beehaw members such as jarfil which I feel is not within the spirit of beehaw's rules.

If screenshots of this mess are wanted I will gladly provide them, probably after some cropping (if that is okay).

Is this enough information apart from the screenshots or is more required?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Screenshots would help. I’ve been hearing from a lot of trusted persons that the person in question is an asshole. I would like to know more about this please.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 week ago

Okay, give me a bit to do some things offline and then I'll get to cropping and uploading them here.

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

Proof posted.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago

Thank you

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