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The interview itself wasn’t really the problem here that killed the subreddit though. Frankly speaking, almost no one who watches Fox News was gonna up and join the labor movement working on that subreddit, and even that horrifically bad interview doesn’t change much to a normal person because they don’t watch Fox News.
The *response* to criticism of the mod team however is 100% the culprit. Any time a mod team starts taking shit personally and acting dictatorial with impunity is gonna end in a way similar to this.
If the mod team noticed a bunch of transphobic shit, they probably should have talked to Doreen and said “hey, there’s a lot of hate going around, we’re gonna shoulder the load here, maybe take a week and let this blow over while we deal with this.” Or they could have, yknow, done anything proactively to try and curtail criticism by having some posts addressing the interview and tried to rebuild momentum. Instead the mod team got offended and started mass destruction of dissenting opinions.
So sad to see a very cool and important sub kill itself because of people being too proud to admit their faults.
Comment by [deleted] at 27/01/2022 at 05:35 UTC*
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