The prominent user who left recently made me realize that while this place is a lot less full of bigotry than reddit, that is a low fucking bar.
What are concrete steps users and mods can take to make this a more welcoming space? I'm assuming the majority of the bigotry is coming from inside the house, bar the occasional raid.
Banning shitstains is good and all, but that is only a part of community management. How do we proactively create a better user culture here? How do we better establish norms of behavior?
PSA type reminders and anti-propaganda posting. Like the user said, it's in the air we breath and working against it is an active thing. Similar to the "we love our trans comrades" post, but just stuff that helps to deprogram. Likely it'll be a obvious stuff for most of us, but it's more of a reinforcement type thing. I try to internalize this stufd, but I'm sure am guilty of lapsing as much as the next person
https://implicit.harvard.edu/implicit/takeatestv3.html