What the wider culture is experiencing these days was presaged by Gamergate. When you ignore the trolls, they don't go away: they radicalize
Now we've got a white teenager on the left and a white teenager on the right who are famous for racist and misogynist violence.
Now we've got a white teenager on the left and a white teenager on the right who are famous for racist and misogynist violence.
I would not be surprised if we eventually learn that Coleman has a history of saying racist shit online or that Rittenhouse has creeped out young women in his life.
It's all one thing and that thing is not isolated to one political party.
It's all one thing and that thing is not isolated to one political party.
I've been reading/listening to Black women warn us since *the late 1990s* about where all this 'trolling' chan/gamer culture garbage would lead
Back in the 2000s I remember people frantically waving their arms and sending up flares, trying to point out the rot that was starting to spread from certain corners of the internet, hoping it could be stopped before it was too late
ANYWAY I don't think an organization can ever go wrong by taking the concerns of its most vulnerable employees, users, vendors, etc seriously
I actually deleted a tweet in this thread about what could have happened to Reddit if Alexis Ohanian had met Serena Williams much sooner. Maybe he would've actually taken steps to clean it up https://twitter.com/alexisohanian/status/1298792657750290433
Of course of course, Ohanian probably wasn't the man he is today and Williams might've just passed