517 upvotes, 9 direct replies (showing 9)
Hey, I got a question. Why are all my replies to this thread being deleted?
I'll try a third time, because there was absolutely nothing rule-breaking in the post:
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Y'all really need to drop the grandstanding and euphemisms.
Here's the thing. You've got your neckbearded Voltaire mask, complete with the clown nose and everything. "Sir, I detest what you say, but I would *die* for your right to *wakka, wakka, honk, honk!*" It's a fun prop. You can either keep it on or you can take it off, but you gotta choose, bucko. If you decide to pick and choose on an improvisational basis depending on when it's convenient for site revenues then expect to rightly be called a bunch of fucking hypocrites.
You have stood firmly behind the assorted sewer spawn of reactionaries and bigots who made this site their home and command post. Whole place is infested with them and nobody wants to take out the trash. It's being overrun by a stampede of gutter-dwelling white supremacists and misogynists, harassing marginalized groups here in droves. Communities and mods have been practically begging you[1], for years, to at least let them filter out brigades of white supremacists without putting their forums on lock-down. Instead, you ban the people[2] rocking the boat by pointing out the hypocrisy and then you make *proud* statements about how reddit, in its uncompromising bravery and liberal wisdom, *must* give the lynch mobs a platform, a podium and a megaphone, all funded by the users who have to be subjected to it. So, when thread after race-baiting thread on forums with millions of subscribers is filled to the gills with thousands of racist fuckwits sermonizing how they should "lynch all the chimps" and management stands by proudly nodding at all this free speech it's fostering, ***don't bother turning around to scream unconscionable moral outrage at a Hollywood sex tape***:
While current US law does not prohibit linking to stolen materials, we deplore the theft of these images and we do not condone their widespread distribution.
- /u/yishan
The obvious conclusion here is that you decided to deny a platform to people invading the privacy of celebrities who might soon change their minds about promoting your company. Good times. Should have been done right away, in my opinion. Now, for the other matter. Why do far *worse* and *far more deplorable* offenders deserve that same platform without eliciting your indignation?
What is the criteria for expression deserving that indignation, by the way? Perhaps, like the CEO says[3], people of color should just fork over some more money to be considered?
Clown nose on or clown nose off? Pick *one*.
Comment by [deleted] at 07/09/2014 at 13:40 UTC
82 upvotes, 1 direct replies
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Comment by Alx_xlA at 07/09/2014 at 23:54 UTC
3 upvotes, 0 direct replies
Excellent response, thank you.
Comment by huehuelewis at 07/09/2014 at 19:58 UTC
4 upvotes, 0 direct replies
Schrödinger's clown nose
Comment by bebackinagif at 07/09/2014 at 17:04 UTC
-8 upvotes, 0 direct replies
The race baiting and such isn't an organic group of white supremacists individually upvoting posts and such.
In Reddit's infancy, it became clear that it was a potential threat to the powers that be, mostly due to the open discourse and community building aspects.
So they invaded, infiltrated, and coopted with their cointelpro tactics of divide and conquer in order to drive discourse and community driven people away from this site by flooding it with shit and race-baiting.
Easily done with shell accounts, bots, proxies, etc. (Even easier with the help of admins)
This site is a charade now, the posts and comments are largely *manufactured*.
How many minds are being programmed socially, politically, philosophically on a daily basis? The propaganda and social engineering here is much more powerful now than the MSM.
It is rotten to the roots (admins) and it must be culled, or at the very least, walked the fuck away from.
Comment by Commenter4 at 07/09/2014 at 16:26 UTC
-19 upvotes, 2 direct replies
I find that, if anything, this site is being filled with a bunch of social justice warriors that take offense to anything, like, I don't know, having a different opinion? Sure, the racists and misogynists are here, but if you go to a sub like politics, twox, or atheism, and have a different opinion than the community there, you're brigaded against by a fair number of users from those respective subs. And that's no better than the misogynists and racists.
Comment by [deleted] at 07/09/2014 at 15:19 UTC
-18 upvotes, 1 direct replies
I find that, if anything, this site is being filled with a bunch of social justice warriors that take offense to anything, like, I don't know, having a different opinion? Sure, the racists and misogynists are here, but if you go to a sub like politics, twox, or atheism, and have a different opinion than the community there, you're brigaded against by a fair number of users from those respective subs. And that's no better than the misogynists and racists.
Comment by kentrel at 07/09/2014 at 16:37 UTC
-11 upvotes, 0 direct replies
Whole place is infested with them and nobody wants to take out the trash. It's being overrun by a stampede of gutter-dwelling white supremacists and misogynists, harassing marginalized groups here in droves.
Woah, easy there, Travis Bickle
Comment by PM_ME_YOUR_PLOT at 07/09/2014 at 15:08 UTC
-3 upvotes, 1 direct replies
all funded by who users
You violated the rules of grammar! ^^Sorry.
Comment by I_WILL_BOLD_COMMENTS at 07/09/2014 at 13:29 UTC
-5 upvotes, 0 direct replies