Alexis Ohanian asks to be replaced by black candidate as he resigns from Reddit • Hacker News Board

Re: Alexis Ohanian asks to be replaced by black candidate as he resigns from Reddit

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Post by elindbe2 » Fri, Jun 05, 2020, 9:42 PM UTC

soneil wrote: post #10

cameronfraser wrote: post #9

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Seems like virtue signaling to me. It doesn't negatively impact him long term and it softens the impact of the people saying he didn't do anything meaningful to combat racism on reddit.

I think I’d disagree with this. It does hurt him, in that he’d earn more where he is. He will take a hit from this. Unless he’s entirely mismanaged his finances, it shouldn’t hurt much, but it will hurt more than it would otherwise.

True, he should donate more, to the point where he's in the same living situation as the people he's supporting.

Re: Alexis Ohanian asks to be replaced by black candidate as he resigns from Reddit

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Post by Simulacra » Fri, Jun 05, 2020, 9:45 PM UTC

sneak wrote: post #5

They also announced a bunch more censorship on the website. > I think all censorship should be deplored. My position is that bits are not a bug. — Aaron Swartz, Reddit co-founder (1986 - 2013)

We have drifted far, far away from Aaron's ideals.

Re: Alexis Ohanian asks to be replaced by black candidate as he resigns from Reddit

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Post by davmar » Fri, Jun 05, 2020, 10:12 PM UTC

RivasPT wrote: post #6

elindbe2 wrote: post #4

Seems reasonable. A lot of white people are out protesting. Why not put your money where your mouth is even if it hurts your future? Though I suspect in Ohanian's case he'll be rich for the rest of his life regardless of what he does.

He is also using his position to promote Institutional Racism regarding his replacement: he already is defining the "right race".

You don't know what institutional racism is.

Re: Alexis Ohanian asks to be replaced by black candidate as he resigns from Reddit

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Post by brodouevencode » Fri, Jun 05, 2020, 11:07 PM UTC

Isn't this antithetical to the ideals of equality (chosen by our merits rather than our skin color)? And isn't this sending a terrible message: "you weren't good enough for this job before as I was but now I feel sorry for you." Seems counterproductive.

Re: Alexis Ohanian asks to be replaced by black candidate as he resigns from Reddit

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Post by remmargorp64 » Fri, Jun 05, 2020, 11:42 PM UTC

I'm so sick of all these high level people resigning as if it's some kind of effective way of protesting.

It's not effective. You were in a position of power, and a place to actually make a meaningful difference, but now you have effectively relinquished your influence and power so it just can be handed off to someone else to abuse.

Quitting instead of staying and fighting for the good cause is straight up cowardice. Claiming that you are doing it as as protest is disingenuous.

Re: Alexis Ohanian asks to be replaced by black candidate as he resigns from Reddit

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Post by 0xy » Sat, Jun 06, 2020, 5:29 AM UTC

sneak wrote: post #5

They also announced a bunch more censorship on the website. > I think all censorship should be deplored. My position is that bits are not a bug. — Aaron Swartz, Reddit co-founder (1986 - 2013)

reddit threw away Aaron Swartz' ideals long ago. The current CEO is vehemently in favor of massive censorship, stealth edits posts he doesn't like and allows power moderators to blatantly peddle influence on the largest subreddits.

The top power mods, particularly the user /u/maxwellhill, spends their entire day spamming political articles to non-political subreddits he moderates in violation of his own rules. If I stepped into pure speculation mode, I don't think this account is even a single person. It's certainly compromised in any sense.

Then there's reddit admins (employees of the company) taking steps to remove and censor posts critical of China's coronavirus response after taking a huge investment from Tencent.