# Gender, race, and other issues (split off from Doper Demographics thread)

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**Created:** [September 7, 2022, 12:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gender-race-and-other-issues-split-off-from-doper-demographics-thread/971091 "2022-09-07T00:09:23Z")\
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**Author:** ![Kimstu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ecd19e/32.png) [@Kimstu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kimstu)\
**Post date:** [September 8, 2022, 2:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gender-race-and-other-issues-split-off-from-doper-demographics-thread/971091/115 "2022-09-08T02:44:32Z")

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> [@YWTF](#):
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> I have made my point clear about the tenor on this board.
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> You and others are also making it clear what this tenor actually looks like. It’s ugly and boring.

Honestly, I tend to think it was considerably more “ugly and boring” back when we had [actual debate threads on “issues” like](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/regarding-the-blacks-marching-for-reparations-tomorrow/124303)

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> Regarding the blacks marching for reparations tomorrow…  
> How many of them are actually former slaves? Or just lazy freeloaders looking for a quick buck?

[Or wanting to debate the so-called “Global Warming Fraud”.](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-global-warming-fraud/738010)  
[Or arguing with zero moderation pushback that](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/chick-fil-a-appreciation-day/630096/345)

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> […] aside from being a mental illness homosexuality is also aberrant behavior that **most humans seem to naturally find visually disgusting**.

[Or asking](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-rape-victims-bear-any-responsibility-for-stupid-decisions-that-endanger-them/126715)

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> Do rape victims bear any responsibility for stupid decisions that endanger them?

[Or opinion threads expecting serious discussion of questions like](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-black-women-generally-less-attractive-then-white-women/483163)

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> Are black women generally less attractive then [sic] white women?

Part of what has “hardened the baseline”, so to speak, is the fact that the pernicious bigotry and willful ignorance underlying a lot of those attitudes has now become more generally apparent. At least in this one small enclave of the internet, over the decades, to some extent, some ignorance actually got fought.

I’m not going to bemoan that for reducing “diversity of opinion” around here. Yes, it’s true that being more welcoming to a lot more varieties of stupidity and bigotry encouraged more diversity of opinion in that regard. Like I said, I don’t think that was a net win for the board.

> [@YWTF](#):
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> Only a pathetic handful of nobodies gets any pleasure reading it.

Hmm, then that implies that there must be thousands of masochists reading the SDMB without getting any pleasure from it.

Someone should tell them that if they’re really not enjoying it they’re allowed to leave, honest!

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