Comment by [deleted] on 30/06/2020 at 05:11 UTC

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Comment by Aussierotica at 30/06/2020 at 12:32 UTC

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They haven't even defined majority though. In America, women are the majority and men are a minority. Guess you can make a women hating subreddit? Or do they mean in the world in which case it's perfectly fine to hate the Chinese.

The sad thing is that once you go and look at how many of the ways people have defined racial and ethnic lines, it becomes a tool for leverage and hate the world over. You could almost point at a country at random and find horrible examples.

Internal to China there is a lot of issues with non-Han Chinese being displaced or subsumed by the Han (who are what most people think of when they think 'Chinese'), and that's before getting to the Tibetans or Uighers.

Throughout SE-Asia there is often a barely-concealed hatred for any Chinese ethnicity, even if they've been living there for hundreds of years, as they're traditionally seen as the merchants, sources of money and collectors of wealth (sounds like other ethnic groups being targeted elsewhere).

SE-Asia also used to be not a good place to live as ethnic Japanese, as the locals tended to have very good memories of their terrible experiences during WWII. Even 60-70 years later ethnic Japanese sites were left ruined and torched.

In Sri Lanka your ethnic origin as Singhalese or Tamil could have led to your arbitrary execution if you bound yourself to it too tightly in the wrong place.

Hindus and Muslims across India and Pakistan have spent many years and much blood at each other's throats under the banner of nationalism - with no signs of ever stopping. The evolution of the modern borders of Pakistan, Bangladesh, and India and who did what to who and when.

Syria is probably going to stay a bloodbath for a long time because of the absolute nightmarish mix of ethnicities, tribal groups, ideologies, and external powers meddling in the mix.

Comment by [deleted] at 30/06/2020 at 06:07 UTC

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Yeah I’m definitely interested to see how they define majority/minority. I’d hope they choose a definition like:

“To be part of a minority group your group needs to clearly and commonly recognized as minority group.”

So, men and/or women wouldn’t count because they are too close in numbers. Someone who is LGBT, however, is pretty much always a minority; whether it be country or world metric.

Better yet, would be nice to see them have a list of minority groups, so it is clear and transparent.

And I still would prefer that all groups, all people get protected equally. This is just hypothetical that they can’t logistically enforce the rule for all people.

I believe everyone deserves the benefit of the doubt. As for the Donald banning, I think there is truth to both sides of that story. I wasn’t there for that drama, but I am listening. Reddit does have political bias unfortunately, I’ve seen how poorly people with right-wing ideas are talked to on this platform. I could see how they are heading towards being a platform that welcomes less and less diverse people and diverse ideas. Unfortunately, I don’t know of any other platform that does what reddit does without the bias.