3654 upvotes, 50 direct replies (showing 25)
View submission: Update to Our Content Policy
the rule does not protect groups of people who are in the majority
Say what?
The majority of whom and where?
Is it the majority of reddit users -- if so, what if the majority shifts due to changing demographics?
What characteristics are we including or excluding? What about people who are in some minority but otherwise part of "the majority"?
Is it simply location based and "American" is the majority? Or are we talking about subreddit per subreddit based? Are Chinese people a majority in Chinese subreddits?
This type of policy makes no sense and just opens up a giant can of worms. And honestly, it is a good indication that this website is about to spiral down when you start making rules that allow hate targeted towards people just because those people make up a majority. It's good to target hate and to try and minimize it on a website. It's not good to carve out rules for groups that are allowed to be targeted for hate though.
Comment by [deleted] at 29/06/2020 at 18:38 UTC
529 upvotes, 7 direct replies
Are Chinese people a majority in Chinese subreddits?
Yes, feel free to go to r/sino or r/aznidentity and say the most vile, dehumanizing things you could possible think of about Asian people.
After all, Asians are the "majority" on those subs, as well as the overwhelming majority of the Earth's population, so its perfectly fine according to Reddit's own rules.
Comment by volfin at 29/06/2020 at 18:43 UTC
558 upvotes, 5 direct replies
yeah this is the kind of double standard that helps perpetuate the hate. It shouldn't be okay to bully anyone, and greenlighting hate and abuse toward the majority of poeple is just incredibly insane.
Comment by TC2639 at 29/06/2020 at 18:42 UTC
33 upvotes, 1 direct replies
"It's a good indication that this website is about to spiral down"
Oh it's been spiraling down for a while, this is the nail in the coffin for Reddit
Comment by fadadapple at 29/06/2020 at 18:58 UTC
58 upvotes, 0 direct replies
If you’re white in a black majority country, then feel free to go after black people!
REDDIT ENDORSES IT!
Comment by AlreadyBannedMan at 29/06/2020 at 18:50 UTC
22 upvotes, 1 direct replies
lmfao. I love liberal ideology, I feel it is *usually* based on reason but when I tell my liberal friends that we would end up here they laughed. It was only what, maybe 5 years ago I said this was coming.
The good news is that hopefully now any reddit alternatives will have enough expats to make every alternative not an instant right wing echo chamber, which is just as annoying. Like fuck, I don't think I would ever see some rightoid website say "No racism, but explicitly you can be racist against black people" because of these pseudo reasons.
Comment by [deleted] at 29/06/2020 at 18:36 UTC
740 upvotes, 4 direct replies
It's just a dog whistle to mean "straight white men".
Comment by [deleted] at 29/06/2020 at 18:26 UTC
320 upvotes, 5 direct replies
"you can't be racist against white people or sexist against men"
Comment by on_dy at 29/06/2020 at 18:56 UTC
12 upvotes, 0 direct replies
I think it means “it’s okay to hate as long as it’s trendy and gets shiny awards”.
Comment by lkitn at 29/06/2020 at 19:07 UTC
10 upvotes, 1 direct replies
r/blackpeopletwitter is now open for every slang and slut u can imagine nice one reddit
Comment by [deleted] at 29/06/2020 at 18:19 UTC
98 upvotes, 3 direct replies
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Comment by [deleted] at 29/06/2020 at 18:47 UTC*
194 upvotes, 2 direct replies
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Comment by [deleted] at 29/06/2020 at 18:46 UTC
27 upvotes, 2 direct replies
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Comment by [deleted] at 29/06/2020 at 18:56 UTC
10 upvotes, 0 direct replies
Reddit has officially become a targeted hate site.
Comment by capecodcaper at 29/06/2020 at 19:01 UTC
27 upvotes, 1 direct replies
They banned /r/rightwinglgbt
So you can see where this goes
Comment by An_Lochlannach at 29/06/2020 at 19:29 UTC*
3 upvotes, 0 direct replies
Yeah none of this makes much sense to me. I was born and raised in Ireland, so I'm a "minority" to British posters who still think Irish people are an inferior race who need to be civilized by their empire.
Yet, I live in America now, where my most used distinguishing feature is the color of my skin, which makes me a majority here.
In short, I can have racial insults thrown at me from different parts of the world, and it's ok if it happens to be coming from the US.
Very odd rule.
Comment by Souldestroyer_Reborn at 29/06/2020 at 19:49 UTC
3 upvotes, 0 direct replies
It basically means, in a polite way, “fuck whitey”.
It’s an asinine rule, which ultimately goes against everything that we, as a species, should be striving for.
It’s much easier (and better for a small minority) to just split folk up into groups and put them against each other.
Reddit is now an openly institutionalised racist site, this is where far left politics is taking us.
Comment by sporabolic at 29/06/2020 at 19:01 UTC
2 upvotes, 1 direct replies
Rules applied differently to different races... don't they have a name for that?
Comment by Noreaga at 29/06/2020 at 18:50 UTC
10 upvotes, 0 direct replies
reddit is trash. There's your answer.
Comment by [deleted] at 29/06/2020 at 19:45 UTC
3 upvotes, 0 direct replies
Since the majority of Reddit users are left-wing, does that mean it's okay to hate on them?
Comment by [deleted] at 29/06/2020 at 19:47 UTC
4 upvotes, 0 direct replies
It’s a carve out for BPT
Comment by statist_steve at 29/06/2020 at 19:22 UTC
2 upvotes, 0 direct replies
This. Also they might be opening themselves up to a civil rights lawsuit if they unequally apply the rules of their site in a discriminatory fashion.
Comment by [deleted] at 29/06/2020 at 19:23 UTC
5 upvotes, 0 direct replies
It has to be global.
FUCK THE ASIANS.
Comment by Ameriican at 29/06/2020 at 21:08 UTC
2 upvotes, 0 direct replies
Aren't Muslims the world's majority religion?
Well, let's get it started, shall we? Muhammed owned slaves and fucked a 9 year old.
Comment by noherenothere65 at 29/06/2020 at 19:51 UTC
2 upvotes, 0 direct replies
Our Chinese overlords are hammering in the wedges. No wipipo. The most racist are Winnie the Pooh
Comment by Gg_Messy at 29/06/2020 at 19:14 UTC
3 upvotes, 0 direct replies
They mean white people.