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I've been reading ESR for decades and have never noticed him saying anything racist. Can you provide a few examples?

(And I suppose using "old" in this way is against the CoC?)

Here's a piece from ESR where he describes an unnamed race. Let me say upfront that I guess I'm one of the terrible anti-racists he warns you about in this very piece..

> One was: their skin color looks fecal. The other was: their bone structure doesn’t look human. And they’re just off-reference enough to be much more creepy than if they looked less like people, like bad CGI or shambling undead in a B movie. When I paid close enough attention, these were the three basic data under the revulsion; my hindbrain thought it was surrounded by alien shit zombies.

The overall piece's conclusion is "I, ESR, am so enlightened that that I managed to overcome this perception". http://esr.ibiblio.org/?p=5001

Lol and the title of the piece is "Preventing visceral racism", its main thesis is about an experience that freaked him out and about how racism starts in groups. Your quote is cherry picked from where he is describing his freaked reaction.

Here is a good example of ESR being racist: https://twitter.com/tqbf/status/816449724127608833

Here is an example of ESR being misogynist: http://esr.ibiblio.org/?p=6907

I recall thinking it sounded like BS at the time, but the "misogynist" link seems prescient in hindsight.

No, you can google "Eric S Raymond racist quote" and get a bunch of them. No way I'm gonna dip my eyes back into the metaphorical peroxide of that man's writing. I paid thousands upon thousands of dollars to the Great Slate to make tqbf stop putting those things in my eyeline, I am that happy to avoid that man.

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