"I miss the time when there were hardly any non-male non-white people in tech, and the ones that were there were too afraid to speak up, or bullied out when they did, so we never had to think about the world outside our tech bubble"
Andreas Ehn @ehn
29 Sep 2020
I miss pre-political tech so much... Or at least the time when tech politics had something to do with tech or was new and interesting in some way rather than the same left–right bs the rest of society is mired in.
9
80
6
293
My tech "bubble" 20 years ago spanned across the world, over forums, IRC, email, newsgroups, to people of all ages and origins, before "white cisheteropatriarchy" was a word people knew. We really don't need a bunch of entryists telling people who were here what it was like.
3
1
Replying to @unconed @Felienne
I was there, too, and you’re completely missing the point, Steven. I’m glad those times are gone. Don’t use “we” as if you speak for anybody.

Oct 1, 2020 · 6:42 AM UTC

1
10
Replying to @stilkov @Felienne
I use "we" because there are plenty of people who don't dare speak up against your moral orthodoxy. You haven't refuted anything. This obsession with race and gender came post ~2005 and was paired with a sex negative puritanism.
1