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Re:Tell HN: DEI initiatives undermine the self esteem of PoC... by zozbot234 on Monday February 06, 2023 @10:03AM (#34678275)
Some communities did have a lot of virulently racist and make-chauvinist trolling. The infamous 4chan forum culture didn't just spring up out of thin air, after all. It's a bit harder to tell whether that was anywhere close to representative, of course.
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Re:Tell HN: DEI initiatives undermine the self esteem of PoC... by moomoo11 on Monday February 06, 2023 @10:15AM (#34678502)
Yeah but 4chan and sites like it are shit. Why even go there? For one of those low tier sites there were hundreds of forums and communities which were normal.

Not a valid data point. You’re picking some fringe element and assuming the whole internet is like that.

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Re:Tell HN: DEI initiatives undermine the self esteem of PoC... by spoiler on Monday February 06, 2023 @10:20AM (#34678583)
I think 4chan can hardly be put in the same category as freenode channels. It's just an incredible leap in reasoning in my experience with both (albeit not much experience with 4chan, others than the occasional snippet I've seen online)
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