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Regarding "old beliefs", a distinction I'd like to make... My anecdotal impression is that early Internet overall was, on average, more enlightened and amiable than Internet today. Our earlier experience: Nobody knows you're a dog, people are excited about the possibilities, people are open to meeting others around the world, people see others sharing just to share, people haven't been conditioned to intolerant extre…
It's inherently hard to get along with people you don't share values with, and the culture war got extra vicious. But I wouldn't call the people throwing racial and sexual slurs more intolerant of the outgroup than the other side (the people deciding to get offended), if anything, they seem to have thicker skin when it comes to differences in worldview.
Re: Old Computer Challenge
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