One source observes that “[w]hite workers have 74% higher income on average compared to Black and Brown people”, so just because the culture might be less racist than the US, the systematic issues are still very much there.

Those systematic issues aren’t racist issues tho. It makes sense the descendants of literal slaves brought from tribes from Africa and the descendants of native tribes in the Americas who didn’t even invent the wheel, not even the Aztecs, Mayans or Incas, would have ended up poorer today than the descendants of people from developed civilisations that built huge trans-oceanic vessels. Only literal Star Trek-ian communism could have changed that, even real life communism doesn’t and didn’t suddenly make janitors rich and college educated managers poor. Look at any Eurasian country with no history of migrations or colonies and the poor people there today are the descendents of poor people from a couple hundred years ago, and the rich people today are the descendents of rich people from a couple hundred years ago.

The real issue is the lack of social mobility. Some countries have more of it, some less. The way to achieve it is through stuff like real and strong safety nets and welfare and policies such as a progressive inheritance tax, not through racial measures.

Racial measures exist and have a purpose in divided societies where the racial groups are divided and don’t see eye to eye and don’t understand each other’s issues and therefore each group needs proper democratic representation which also means some amount of economic strength.

In a society where people aren’t actually racist, or racially divided, those kind of measurers would only breed resentment because some poor people would be overlooked because they aren’t of the “right” colour, in this case not dark enough. So these anti-racism measures would just create more racial drama.

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Have you been following any of the discussions regarding potential issues with the administration and moderation on ml?

Can’t say I have.

However, I originally made this community back in the day when lemmy.ml was basically the only instance, and have since then moved my account to another instance (2 years ago) specifically for those same reasons of lemmy.ml being… hmm… politically charged.

I didn’t think of moving the community until now tbh, but that’s not really something I can do. At most I could sticky a link to another community, or delete this one (which would be overkill imo), but for that to happen there needs to be a different community to begin with and community interest for it to happen. The power’s all yours people. It’s up to you guys to show interest and initiative. Maybe make a post about this, and check if there’s interest, discuss where to move etc, a meta post like this is totally fine here on /c/freecad.

Anyway, on a completely unrelated note, the community image did update after awhile, but in the wrong direction! It was the new logo on slrpnk.net/c/freecad@lemmy.ml for awhile, where my account is, but now I see that when the things synced the old lemmy.ml/c/freecad image overwrote the new one on slrpnk.net/c/freecad@lemmy.ml! I guess I can’t change the image as a mod from another instance. I will have to mod my old lemmy.ml account here now to change the image (and hopefully it will stick this time around, assuming it works at all) but I will have to make a bug report on github about this when I find the time.

Sorry for the late reply tho.

Done. It should take a while to propagate to every instance.

Keep in mind tho, this is an unofficial community.

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