And, at the risk of crossing subLemmy boundaries, here’s Mekka Okereke (@[email protected]) on that achievement, and Mastadon’s loss:
"And when she tried to join the Fediverse, she was greeted with a barrage of hate, sexism, racism, and anti-semitism that should have never been allowed to happen.
"So now no one on Fediverse gets to interact with her directly about her work on here. Our loss. 😢
“Which is why we’ll make it so that this type of terrible welcome is unlikely to happen again. Allowing it to happen to her was a choice. We will make better ones.”
#BlackMastodon
I don’t get racism. I just don’t. How your self worth can become so inherently tied up with the color of your skin should be fucking embarrassing.
I mean seriously, do you have no other accomplishments or have you acheived so little in life, that your only source of pride is that your were born white? The life of a racist is tragic.
It’s not so much being proud of being white, so much as putting others down to make themselves feel better. “This race does that thing and I don’t, therefore I’m better than them.”
Racism truly is despicable. It’s part of the reason why we must all take part in working to excise bigotry from the community so that stuff like this is not allowed to happen again.
Cloudflare being awkward today, I will edit that subtitle when it decides to play nicely.
One of the public’s most beloved physicist is Neil DeGrasse Tyson -, so I find it rather interesting to say the least, when people claim that some other black physicists was met with a ton of hate. Makes no sense. So they readily accept someone like NGT but this other person is where they draw the line?!?
I’m sure being a woman has a nonzero percent chance to do with it
I work in STEM. I love to see more women in it.
Likely because he’s “one of the good ones”. He’s a name and face they know. That said, I’m sure plenty of people hate him because he’s viewed as an elite.
