The early 90s tech scene that created L0pht, the legendary hackerspace

Re:The early 90s tech scene that created L0pht, the legendar... by calderknight on Monday March 20, 2023 @12:31AM (#35227307)

Traditional "hacker" culture is anti-authoritarian. Freedom of speech is an aspect of that. And therefore the acceptance of the expression of racist, sexist, and transphobic ideas is too.

It's not that "accepting racism/sexism" is a symptom or a cause of the general difference in culture. It just is the culture. A logically necessary aspect of the culture. Remove it, and you've lost the culture.

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Re:The early 90s tech scene that created L0pht, the legendar... by tptacek on Monday March 20, 2023 @10:01PM (#35241634)

None of this is true; it's just something that people who enjoy racist and misogynist jokes say to rationalize the behavior.

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Re:The early 90s tech scene that created L0pht, the legendar... by calderknight on Tuesday March 21, 2023 @02:31AM (#35243109)

My point is that freedom of speech is crucial to a great intellectual environment, and that you can't have freedom of speech and ban the discussion of vast swathes of theories about the world.

You claim that this is just something that people who enjoy racist and misogynistic jokes say. That is absurd. Noam Chomsky, Norman Finkelstein, John Stuart Mill, etc. - are these people all just racists and misogynists? Norman Finkelstein, when he says that Holocaust denialism should be taught in college by Holocaust denialists - is that because he just wants to be able to make jokes about the Holocaust?

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