"We exist without skin color, without nationality, without religious bias... and you call us criminals."
"My crime is that of judging people by what they say and think, not what they look like."
I wouldn't argue that "hacker culture" is necessarily a monoculture or immune to racism, but I feel that this disembodied ethic is core to the origins of the culture.
Just like this is a hacker news site and not the exclusive one. And all in all, despite the ads and some other things, like intransparent moderation at times, I think they cultivate a quite good hacker spirit here. Otherwise we wouldn't be visiting.
Maybe it isn’t. My understanding of Hacker ethos has been that of a curiosity driven by truth seeking of any system (not just technological). Racism seems like lazy conventional thinking, so it seems prima facie to be incoherent with that culture.
"We exist without skin color, without nationality, without religious bias... and you call us criminals."
"My crime is that of judging people by what they say and think, not what they look like."
I wouldn't argue that "hacker culture" is necessarily a monoculture or immune to racism, but I feel that this disembodied ethic is core to the origins of the culture.