I still thought of myself as a liberal when this happened, arguing that his shirt was unprofessional absolutely but not 'sexist', and being one of the things that was used as a datapoint against me when I was eventually excommunicated from the online community I was part of at the time. The second one was the 'clock kid' incident where I argued that it was more likely a consequence of zero-tolerance school policy rather than racial profiling, and of course the straw that broke that camel's back was when Gamergate kicked off and I rebuked the 'misogynist hate campaign' narrative. I poked in a couple years ago, and the community is dead. Posts only had a handful of comments, and the site owner was a zero-covid lunatic.
Not even. It was an HTML spaghetti code of a site. The original site fell apart because the owner went AWOL, and another user launched a copy site in 2014 where some of the active users found their way to. It was more lively than KIA2 is here at first, but the polarization got more and more extreme, especially the owner who literally was a vagabond living in a van.
I've always thought it was a grift. As in he was coached by his parents to make something that is supposed to look like a bomb so everyone can cry racist.
I still thought of myself as a liberal when this happened, arguing that his shirt was unprofessional absolutely but not 'sexist', and being one of the things that was used as a datapoint against me when I was eventually excommunicated from the online community I was part of at the time. The second one was the 'clock kid' incident where I argued that it was more likely a consequence of zero-tolerance school policy rather than racial profiling, and of course the straw that broke that camel's back was when Gamergate kicked off and I rebuked the 'misogynist hate campaign' narrative. I poked in a couple years ago, and the community is dead. Posts only had a handful of comments, and the site owner was a zero-covid lunatic.
When a crazy cult excommunicates you they're always doing you a favor, even if it doesn't feel like it at the time
Reddit?
Nah, that site predated Reddit. I joined it 23 years ago.
Damn, was it a BBS?
Not even. It was an HTML spaghetti code of a site. The original site fell apart because the owner went AWOL, and another user launched a copy site in 2014 where some of the active users found their way to. It was more lively than KIA2 is here at first, but the polarization got more and more extreme, especially the owner who literally was a vagabond living in a van.
There were all kinds of little forums in the early 2000s, back before most traffic online centralized in a handful of big sites.
It was unprofessional, but this is one of those things where you have to give the dude a slap on the wrist for doing something silly.
Clock kid was definitely a zero-tolerance story.
Plus the shit looked like a bomb
I've always thought it was a grift. As in he was coached by his parents to make something that is supposed to look like a bomb so everyone can cry racist.