sassamifrass's Journal: Alive and kicking... bunnies

Hello. Been too busy to keep up with Slashdot lately, but I had to respond to an article linked from a gaming community I belong to.

I've always been proud to call myself a geek, and kinda always assumed that you had to be fairly bright to join the club. Clearly I was wrong.

The goals of Slashdot are noble, but I'm glad I don't have the time to hang around here much, really. There are far too many racist, sexist, and generally idiotic statements made here on a daily basis.

People make fun of Livejournal, but honestly, it makes me squirm much more when I read a huge blithering spiel which treats other groups as cruelly and with as little accurate information as geeks have been in the past, written by someone I would otherwise respect for their 1337 coding skills. It is chilling.

Hearing the same nasty, uninformed treatment of "the other" from, say, a thirteen year old boy who is just learning how to use the internet, is much less apalling.

As geeks, as people who value knowledge and learning, who know what it is like to be on the outside of society - why should we turn around and then make snap judgements of other categories of people, whether those categories are separated by sex, race, nationality, or religion.

It makes me sick.

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