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On the internet nobody knows you’re a dog.
by jabn76 8y ago
On the internet nobody knows you’re a dog.
- monocasa 8y agoBut you do.
- aspaceman 8y agoRight. But let's go /pol/ for a hot sec. Oh hey! Ctrl-F says there's 5 occurrences of the n-word (Hard -r too!). I'm not black, but I imagine that just ignoring stuff like that really gets to you after awhile. Here is a forum where people actively demean others based on the color of their skin, and not only is it normal, but if you're going to visit you need to make sure no one knows that they're actually black. So should they just pretend to be white?
- jabn76 8y agoIn pol-lingo, a nigger is not a black person. It’s, you know, that kind of black person. :) There is other politics board, int, which is not dominated by the right wing. There are many boards in 4chan, though, and in many of them it’s not acceptable to use the word “nigger”, and using it will get you banned.
- aspaceman 8y agoAre you serious? > It’s, you know, that kind of black person. :) Oh yes, smiley because this is just so funny and amusing :) Hundreds of years or racism using EXACTLY that excuse - "It's only supposed to describe the bad ones" - and hey let's just smile about it :) I'm done with this discussion. It's pretty clear that you've never actually thought about how this affects other people. There are many books on the subject of the n-word written by black men and women, I suggest you read a few.
- hackermailman 8y ago/pol/ is also filled with black nationalists, like NOI/Farrakhan supporters. That's the enigma of 4chan is literally everybody from every group is posting there instead of censorship that ensures only one ideology. By 'ignore what doesn't interest you', I assume that means don't visit the containment boards filled with rampant racism and trolling, you won't find holocaust denial or persistent racist threads on the other boards. It's the same how newsgroups work or discord chat channels work, some are moderated better than others.
- aspaceman 8y agoAnd 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.
- hackermailman 8y agoNot 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.
- tomatotomato37 8y agoI also feel this is the reason that 8ch spinoff went down in quality so quickly. The infinite boards concept caused users to split off when their views were challenged instead of being forced to defend them on the common board