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Do you have examples of this? I know teens on 4Chan and video games were ironically/ignorantly spamming racial slurs a decade ago, but the rise of legitimate, s
by trader_jane 8y ago
Do you have examples of this? I know teens on 4Chan and video games were ironically/ignorantly spamming racial slurs a decade ago, but the rise of legitimate, serious neo-fascism and Nazi beliefs feels like a recent development around the last election. The activist left agitation has been going on far longer. When I was in college circa early 2000s, we were indoctrinated that only whites can be racist (privilege + power), hooking up after a couple beers is date rape, etc.
FWIW, I've really enjoyed discussing this with you. Most people who disagree with me are very aggressive and resort to insult rather than an honest two-way conversation. The thing you said about eliminating prejudice is especially important. Even though I believe people in America enjoy some of the least biased treatment in all of human history, there are still problems like corporations shielding executives from serious sexual harassment claims and police brutality against unarmed minorities. We can, and should, do better.
Anyway I still have a hard time buying that tech is a prejudiced place run by privileged, straight, white, Christian men: Sundar Pichai and Satya Nadella are Indian, with tan skin and a totally foreign culture to most Americans, yet they run Google and Microsoft. Larry and Sergey are descendants of Eastern European Jewish immigrants. Sandberg is a Jewish woman in a high-level, power position at Facebook. Tim Cook is openly gay. These people are in the highest level positions running some of the most valuable companies in the entire world.