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I was on Twitter from 2009 until it turned into Xitter. I never saw much of that hatred for straight, white men (e.g. me). Sure, if you went looking you could a

by redeux 2y ago

I was on Twitter from 2009 until it turned into Xitter. I never saw much of that hatred for straight, white men (e.g. me). Sure, if you went looking you could always find something to be offended about, if that’s what you desired. I never found it showing up at my doorstep though. I did see a lot of hate show up at marginalized people or had those otherwise minority representation in society. I did see a lot of people challenged for their personal beliefs that went on to claim racism and sexism, especially but not exclusively among straight white men. Nobody should suffer the indignity of discrimination for what we were born into, but people are often way too quick to dismiss ideological criticism as discrimination.

TexanFeller 2y ago
I went on Twitter years ago and almost exclusively followed people interested in programming language research, functional programming, and various hard sciences - tried to stay well away from the political nonsense. A year or two later many of those same people started posting as much about things like heteronormativity and trans issues as much as they did computer science. The authors I followed started talking mostly about how JK Rowling is the devil. Such discussions aren't what I was there for so I was very disappointed that everyone got sucked into the echo chamber and spent all their time talking about that instead. Twitter/X is optimized for zingers and gotcha responses about emotionally charged topics, not thoughtful and nuanced discussions about deeper topics. I think in the past it was legitimately a left wing echo chamber and now it's Elon's echo chamber.
- seethedeaduu 2y ago
  Many people in the programming language, functional programming, and academic community in general are trans or queer themselves so it only makes sense. Especially since the hate towards trans people became more public since around 2019.

by redeux 2y ago

TexanFeller 2y ago

I went on Twitter years ago and almost exclusively followed people interested in programming language research, functional programming, and various hard sciences - tried to stay well away from the political nonsense. A year or two later many of those same people started posting as much about things like heteronormativity and trans issues as much as they did computer science. The authors I followed started talking mostly about how JK Rowling is the devil. Such discussions aren't what I was there for so I was very disappointed that everyone got sucked into the echo chamber and spent all their time talking about that instead. Twitter/X is optimized for zingers and gotcha responses about emotionally charged topics, not thoughtful and nuanced discussions about deeper topics. I think in the past it was legitimately a left wing echo chamber and now it's Elon's echo chamber.

seethedeaduu 2y ago
Many people in the programming language, functional programming, and academic community in general are trans or queer themselves so it only makes sense. Especially since the hate towards trans people became more public since around 2019.