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A community for Linux enthusiasts.

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The name of this sub is racist or is recreating structural racism (feddit.de)
submitted 1 year ago by Aetherion@feddit.de to c/linuxmasterrace@feddit.de
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The word “Master Race” is clearly equivalent to terms which were used by Nazis and so are today's far right wing and alt-rights.

There are other communities which created similar narratives, especially from the 4chan side, and I think the origin of “PC Master Race” comes from there.

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[–] Aetherion@feddit.de 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Because?

“Master Race” will still be referring to this kind of “We are over everything, because our race is over everything” narrative.

[–] possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Which is basicly the Linux community in a nutshell. We all see ourselves as superior