Re:A nostalgic look back at when the Internet still felt joyful
by beardedwizard on Sunday March 24, 2024 @08:46AM
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Does this single anecdote change the actual data evident in the photos? I'm sure you didn't wake up and think of excluding anyone, but clearly this selected for white males as many activities do. Nobody is asking anyone to feel guilty about it, cnn is just reporting the facts.
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Re:A nostalgic look back at when the Internet still felt joyful
by Wolfenstein98k on Sunday March 24, 2024 @09:16AM
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True, it's a fact. It's also a fact that few of these people were jocks.
So it obviously selected for non-jocks, maybe even for geeks.
Now why didn't CNN feel the need to point that out?
Why did they choose to only comment on race, as if any participant chose gaming because other people behind screens might be <outgroup race>?
Re:A nostalgic look back at when the Internet still felt joyful
by 23B1 on Sunday March 24, 2024 @09:09AM
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It's CNN selectively reporting the facts because most of the MSM now looks at everything through a culture war lens. Plenty of other lenses to pick from.
A large reason old internet was so fun is that nobody gave a damn about this identity nonsense, we were too busy playing Quake 2 with ninja ropes.
Re:A nostalgic look back at when the Internet still felt joyful
by alexilliamson on Sunday March 24, 2024 @09:45AM
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What happens more often, MSM doing culture war gymnastics? Or people accusing MSM of culture war gymnastics (an accusation which is, itself, culture war gymnastics)?