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by NoImmatureAdHom 1945 days ago
It seems like you might have sympathies with the cancel-culture SJWs and oppose whatever this gal is behind. Rather than letting your emotions run wild, perhaps asking questions and thinking carefully might make more sense.

For instance, foremost in my thoughts is the question: to what extent do makers of effective open-source tools have any control over how they're used? Popularity for Pepe might mean use by progressives in Iran, racists in America, and regular Chinese who just want to chat without minders. Much more likely it'll be all sorts of folks who use such a tool.

I encourage you to remember that you aren't on the wrong side of cancel culture now, but you could be soon.

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This would be the dream goal. But if the system originates from a place of bad faith and bigotry, it will be hard to get anyone but the original bigots to adopt it. Unless someone forks it. Or uses the same algorithms/ideas to build their own version.
> Rather than letting your emotions run wild, perhaps asking questions and thinking carefully might make more sense.

That's incredibly presumptuous of you to the point of being very rude.

Presumably you're ok with "you want to create a space run by and for racist pieces of garbage".
Whataboutism is not suitable for civil discourse.
Although it is very funny coming from someone named NoImmatureAdHom...