extent online racialized aggressions are a disruption to the mission of the organization and how specific expressions are a violation of organizational standards.
These policies must increasingly define the difference between constitutionally protected individual expression and communications
that vigorously impede organizational purpose. This clarity is especially relevant when online racialized aggressions can be attributed to specific users; but, it has been recently problematized in situations where perpetrators of hate speech cannot be identified due to the rise of anonymous identities on social media.
Given the fast-evolving nature of online identity (e.g., anonymous, pseudo-anonymous), and the quick rise of unregulated spaces that encourage and harbor racialized aggressions, the future climate of the online ecosystem will require an active anti-racism commitment from both users, social media platforms, and organizations to eliminate the reproduction of online hate. Similar to our resistance against racism in face-to-face interactions, we must collectively denounce the emergence of racism online and vigorously promote an online environment of equity that is rooted in our moral obligation to shape a compassionate existence. Left unchecked, social media are likely to be overwhelmed and purposed by those who will seize the opportunity to establish online spaces where hate, racism, bigotry, and white supremacy can thrive.
Our society faces an urgent and complicated
problem: we must collectively acknowledge
the challenging threats that racialized hate on social media pose for our existence. Social media is an engrained part of our lives, but a
substantial portion of its functionality has been claimed as a tool to circulate and propagate racist assaults. Ignoring these offenses on social media only enables
racialized aggressions to multiply and
impoverish a culture of hate and violence.
The efforts to successfully navigate today’s hostile social media environments require fully
committed, multi-faceted approaches that we
all must embrace as a matter of upholding the value of human dignity that we share. Those who seek inspiration for how to proceed may look to previous efforts by those who have boldly used social media to organize against racist troupes, to hold users to high standards of ethical behavior on their platforms, and to fearlessly thwart those who seek to purpose online spaces as a means to advance a racist agenda. Most importantly, we must use social media as a space where anti-racist engagement promotes civic action and civic discourse that overwhelms online racialized hate.
Our implicit moral responsibility to share in a caring humanity can be strengthened through promotion of transformative anti-racist education and civically engaged citizenship on social media that fundamentally challenges racialized aggressions. Only then can we being to realize our potential for a dignified existence that can’t be decoupled from a world weaved within social media.
Our implicit moral responsibility to share in a caring humanity can be strengthened through promotion of transformative anti-racist education and civically engaged citizenship on social media that fundamentally challenges racialized aggressions.
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really, it becomes the preoccupation of your life. You are vested, invested, in the property and its success. And that investment extends to the community around you.
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