[CW: Discussion of Racism] My fellow white people: We need to talk. [Serious] It's about racism.

[Serious]

Fuck racism.

I have in-person commitments that I need to go to, so I'm letting y'all know for later. I'm making this post as sort of a bookmark because I think it needs to be said, and needs to be said right away. We white people are not doing a good enough job of being allies to our black, indigenous, and people of color comrades. We need to do a better job here, on this site. We need to create a better anti-racist culture here. We need to do way more of the heavy lifting when it comes to educating ourselves, doing emotional work, identifying racism, supporting our black, indigenous, and people of color comrades, educating other white people, and dealing with the fragility of other white people and in ourselves. We need to help build a culture where black, indigenous, and people of color feel welcome and safe, and where white people are educated and emotionally competent about racism, and where white people deal with the clean-up of the messes white people make. We owe this work, this time, this intellectual and emotional labor, this vigilance, this ongoing effort over time, to our black, indigenous, and people of color comrades. We have to do better.

Don't be racist. Don't say racist stuff. Don't make racist jokes. Don't make racist ironic jokes. This website has a strong shitposting component, but use that for good, not by "pretending" to be racist. It's not funny and our comrades deserve better. Our black, indigenous, and people of color comrades get too much racism in the rest of their lives, they don't need another white person who thinks they're not racist making racist jokes. If you think ironic racism is funny then you need to take a good look at your sense of white privilege. If that makes you upset, you need to do some work on your white fragility. I need to do better. You need to do better. We white people need to do better. I have to go now but I can talk about this more tomorrow. Don't be racist in the comments, and if people are, call them out, tell them not to, and report them because that shit is not supposed to be here.