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X accused of giving racists ‘impunity’ after refusing to bar N- and P-word posts (www.theguardian.com)

submitted 6 days ago by MicroWave@lemmy.world to c/news@lemmy.world

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Site takes no action over hate posts against UK politicians including Kemi Badenoch, Shabana Mahmood and Zia Yusuf

X has refused to take down dozens of social media posts reported as “hate, abuse or harassment” in which prominent UK politicians, including Kemi Badenoch, have been racially abused.

In May, researchers from the social inclusion thinktank British Future reported 30 posts from this year in which the Conservative party leader was called the N-word. In each case the researchers used the platform’s “hate, abuse or harassment” reporting option. X refused to act in the majority of cases, despite repeated requests.

The Guardian understands X routinely takes action only when posts are reported to it as illegal under the UK’s Online Safety Act. In those cases, it restricts visibility in the UK, leaving the post unrestricted in other jurisdictions.

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[–] DarkCloud@lemmy.world 7 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Oh, are we going to go down the "Jews can't be antisemitic" slide now?

A cultural problem needs multiple cultural influences to fix it. You can't balkanize or ghettoize it, then walk away and say "well, that's a problem for just those people, and their community to discuss". All of a culture has to be against racism to make an antiracist culture.

Also, you're not the gestapo of standpoint epistemology... And races themselves aren't unified in opinions. Sometimes there's a general unity, but because opinions do vary between individuals and from race to race... And because people of ANY race can be racist to ANY race (including their own) - we have to operate as a whole culture.

"What race are you to be talking about this?" whilst perhaps well meaning, may also be a kind of defensive use of racialization (standpoint epistemology).

When I say things like Pakistanis aren't fragile to reading a word that's not being said with offensive intentions (they do already know these slurs) I say that because I don't believe anyone is so fragile that explaining the usage of a slur they already know is harmful.

...and if it is, they should take time away from such discussions to deal with that trauma, because like I say, ultimately you need a whole society to have healthy and mature attitudes towards being and becoming anti-racist.

Tell me your race so that I - your moral superior can determine your qualifications, moral standing, and rights on the issue.

May actually be:

I want to know how much this conversation could hurt my reputation.

Which I understand, but we have to move past these individual fears and problems if we're going to solve the systemic cultural whole. Part of which is having and spreading THIS type of discussion to other people from an antiracist perspective, so thank you for helping and participating in that.