Comment Re:I suspect for many it was their first foray... (Score 1) 396
Weren't the Geocities accounts numbered, with icons? Didn't you need to find an empty account from amongst the "neighborhood" of sites?
Comment Re:N00b thing? (Score 1) 396
Some of us predate UID's and only got one to banish John Katz from our homepage.
Yeah! When the log-in system was introduced, there seemed to be no good reason to even want to log in. So...I passed, for a while; I'm confident that others did, too.
However, since this was the place where new users would be called a "troll" and blasted for posting an innocent question or an unpopular remark, and since this was the first place where I ever saw the words "better then" used to compare two things, I knew there was something special, worth holding onto. I had to get that Slashdot log-in.
Comment Re:Here we go. (Score 1) 646
What race card are you talking about? Do you mean this card that I'm about to use to trump you for your stupid move.
Here it is:
You are an idiot! You suggest non-White people hide and work, as you say, "where people had never seen a picture of me."
Who are you? People shouldn't have to hide, don't want to hide, and will not hide, in order to be accepted.
Unless there is some preconceived bias to the contrary, every unidentified person in the USA is assumed to be White. It is the American way...because White is supposed to be synonymous with "America"...even though the fabric of America has been woven by the hands of people of many races, colors, and nationalities.
Therefore, by hiding behind anonymity, one adopts the default label of, or pretends to be, "White."
Who wants to be accepted as White, unless they are?
Who are you instructing to hide?
Imagine a White child going to kindergarten and reading in their textbooks, day-after-day, year-after-year that they came from slaves and that most Black people, the ruling class, the ones who are in the positions of hiring employees and giving job contracts, don't want people who look like them, including their mommies and daddies, in their neighborhoods, don't want them to have the same rights, and just don't like them. Imagine the effect on that child's outlook on life in this country in which they live.
We don't need to imagine.
Here it is:
You are an idiot! You suggest non-White people hide and work, as you say, "where people had never seen a picture of me."
Who are you? People shouldn't have to hide, don't want to hide, and will not hide, in order to be accepted.
Unless there is some preconceived bias to the contrary, every unidentified person in the USA is assumed to be White. It is the American way...because White is supposed to be synonymous with "America"...even though the fabric of America has been woven by the hands of people of many races, colors, and nationalities.
Therefore, by hiding behind anonymity, one adopts the default label of, or pretends to be, "White."
Who wants to be accepted as White, unless they are?
Who are you instructing to hide?
Imagine a White child going to kindergarten and reading in their textbooks, day-after-day, year-after-year that they came from slaves and that most Black people, the ruling class, the ones who are in the positions of hiring employees and giving job contracts, don't want people who look like them, including their mommies and daddies, in their neighborhoods, don't want them to have the same rights, and just don't like them. Imagine the effect on that child's outlook on life in this country in which they live.
We don't need to imagine.
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