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To me, it seems like a combination of childish-authoritarian beliefs that the world will change for the better once, and only once, you stop anyone from saying anything controversial at all. Once nobody is able to disagree, bad things won't exist any more.
I deleted my reddit account after I saw this announcement. That website has been on a downward slide ever since Tencent got some ownership and it’s become very evident Reddit is being used to push some ideologies.
About time. It is almost impossible to browse the front page without seeing some hateful content. And I am not talking about the political stuff. You can upload video of a random dude getting beaten to death, make some absurd claims like "the guy is a pedophile caught in the act" and watch the hateful comments roll in. Basically, you can make any claims and the ones that keep people's blood boiling seems very popular…
I blocked Reddit on my computer but I decided to unlock it temporarily to read this. "u/kn0thing has resigned from our board to fill his seat with a Black candidate" Now I regret it. I despise this kind of actions taken based on the colour of the skin/nationality/ethnicity/religion.
> I despise this kind of actions taken > based on the colour of the skin Are you sure you aren't applying a rule, on this occasion, without thinking it through? Skin-colour is relevant to the job here: it's a guarantee that the board member will have first-hand experience dealing with the issues Alexis thinks Reddit has mishandled.
The comments in that thread are very telling of how Reddit's admins have chosen to wring their hands, or lament over their lack of involvement in the past rather than address issues, policies or tools.
And what defines "hate"? Are they going be as consistent with the content of gangsta rappers? I'd wager no. It really is sad to see how hiveminded reddit has become, particularly with the city subreddits. Any person with a dissenting viewpoint either gets banned or gets downvoted to oblivion. And not everyone shares the same viewpoint on who the "bad people" are out there. I, for one, feel that thug brutality is a bi…
> And what defines "hate"? Are they going be as consistent with the content of gangsta rappers? I'd wager no. Probably because the content from "gangsta rappers" doesn't instigate brutality that leverages a power imbalance the way cultural and systemic hatred drive police brutality. > thug brutality is a bigger problem than police brutality It's objectively not, and I won't hide the reasoning either: police brutality…
This whole post is weird. Based on the tone they seem to think they are combating racism. But really the CEO of a company just announced that they are looking for a new candidate. Requirements? - No particular requirements, except having the right skin color.
Your implied reverse-racism argument just doesn't hold. Are you telling me that there are no capable African-Americans who could fill that board position? If not, the what are you arguing? That increasing the representation of historically oppressed minority groups is bad?
Imagine I'm selling clothes to upper middle class people in Iowa and someone applies to be a salesman or a general manager. "Oh sorry, I'm really looking for a white person here because I feel we've mismanaged our relationship to white consumers in the past." That seems like pretty clear cut racism to me. I don't see we should apply different logic just because the races or jobs are different.
It seems like in the USA circa 2020 there's a pretty narrow legitimate range of opinions, stepping out of which immediately earns you *cist expletives.
[0] https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/04/business/new-york-times-o...
[1] https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/03/opinion/tom-cotton-protes...
[2] https://www.forbes.com/sites/nicholasreimann/2020/06/02/58-o...
[3] https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/04/opinion/tom-cotton-op-ed-...