My view of racism: A specific and targeted activity aimed at a race of individuals with the aim of removing their ability to compete in the free-market.
Examples: CIA backed rebels in South America sent (oddly) marked down\cheap product to Rick Ross and he proceeded to flood black neighborhoods with crack. The US then passed mandatory sentences during the war-on-drugs. Most of this affected black neighborhoods affected by Hubert Humphrey (Senator in the 60's) redlining.
Nothing AT ALL approaching wholesale racism was EVER part of the early (unplanned) IRC scene. If you were new to tech it was a harsh environment and you would get housed on. But there was not a gatekeeper to IRC that channeled blacks into substandard rooms. There was no coordinated effort by the early internet to target black people online with threats and harassment or blacklistings. There was just a lot of dudes talking shit. Calling them racist is a slap in the face to the tech industry that we have in 2023.
My view of racism: A specific and targeted activity aimed at a race of individuals with the aim of removing their ability to compete in the free-market.
Examples: CIA backed rebels in South America sent (oddly) marked down\cheap product to Rick Ross and he proceeded to flood black neighborhoods with crack. The US then passed mandatory sentences during the war-on-drugs. Most of this affected black neighborhoods affected by Hubert Humphrey (Senator in the 60's) redlining.
Nothing AT ALL approaching wholesale racism was EVER part of the early (unplanned) IRC scene. If you were new to tech it was a harsh environment and you would get housed on. But there was not a gatekeeper to IRC that channeled blacks into substandard rooms. There was no coordinated effort by the early internet to target black people online with threats and harassment or blacklistings. There was just a lot of dudes talking shit. Calling them racist is a slap in the face to the tech industry that we have in 2023.