4Chan Is Turning 15–And Remains the Internet's Teenager

Re:4Chan Is Turning 15–And Remains the Internet's Teenager by aspaceman on Friday June 01, 2018 @12:30PM (#17207023)

And because there are black nationalists, the experience of white users of the site and black users of the site are exactly the same?

I am simply saying that if you're black, you're affected by the discourse on 4chan much differently than you would be if you are white. A few black nationalists is a lot different than the sea of n-word use, and it affects folks much, much differently.

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Re:4Chan Is Turning 15–And Remains the Internet's Teenager by hackermailman on Friday June 01, 2018 @12:48PM (#17207240)

Not every black user of 4chan is North American though, I assume it doesn't affect them because they post there regularily. Israelis also routinely post there despite it being a cesspool of anti-semitism. Again it's akin to discord chat groups. There's racist chat groups run by neo-nazis and there's moderated groups that ban for racism.

There was also that Shia LeBouf incident, where black and hispanic members of /pol/ from NYC showed up to disrupt his political performance art thing he was live streaming. These people exist, contrary to our political assumptions, the world is a stange place.

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