> Do you know VIRULENTLY anti-black (or woman, or gay) these communities were? I can't begin to describe it. That is totally off-putting to someone who has the ability succeed but does not want to deal with the hate.
Wow, thank you. Gives me a new perspective.
I spent decades on IRC starting in the early 90s, and this is a politically-driven contemporary re-imagination of what existed at the time.
We were open to all because we ourselves didn’t fit in elsewhere.
Not a valid data point. You’re picking some fringe element and assuming the whole internet is like that.
Yes, totally, most of us were indeed social misfits. But many of us also instead of being empathic and understand what was the real issue there, simply perpetrate the same abuse to someone else who was in a weaker position.
IRC tended towards super edge humor and was a big piece of like early internet culture generators like somethingawful and 4chan.