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An Open Letter to Quora.
You Need to Fix it, Bruh.
Hey Quora.
It’s time we had a chat.
Look, when I joined two and a half years ago, I thought you were fabulous. You were a site where I could learn new things, see differing thoughts and opinions and read the posts of intelligent and passionate people who gave me insights into new areas and challenged some of my preconceptions and notions.
I’ll admit there was a honeymoon stage.
You had your problems (of course you did, no one is perfect) but you *tried* to deal with them. I was so excited that I threw myself wholeheartedly into exchanges on the site. I engaged. After all, Quora was a site for exciting intellectual discourse.
Well… it used to be.
Quora, I need to tell you…you’re changing. You used to take action against issues like racism and misogyny but that just doesn’t seem to be the case these days. Look, I understand that things change, honestly, I do but the way you’re changing, it’s concerning.
You appear to have developed a pretty nasty infection and the scent of putrefaction is starting to taint the very air we breathe on your site. I’ll admit that I cringed when I stumbled over the “White Traditionalism” Space where they openly refer to women who aren’t housewives as…
