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Re: Reddit is banning any Aimee Challenor mention. UK public figure and Reddit admin

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Post by patmcc »

iams wrote: post #27
DominikD wrote: post #10

Someone was banned from Reddit for linking to an article dead naming a trans woman. Did I get this right? If I did, what's the problem here, really?

I'm not sure if you are trolling, but the article wasn't "dead naming a trans woman". It was an article in a mainstream uk magazine about a uk political party where her preferred name was mentioned

"Deadnaming" is explicitly using the birth/non-current name of a trans person. The article does that, and also uses "he" throughout. Both of those things are typically seen as quite offensive by trans people.

I don't think a site-wide ban of the person who posted the link is reasonable, but it is a shitty article.

Re: Reddit is banning any Aimee Challenor mention. UK public figure and Reddit admin

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Post by i_haz_rabies »

mercurysmessage wrote: post #70
zozbot234 wrote: post #59

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Political/social criticism should not be mislabeled as "hate". Trans-related issues are extremely complex no matter what anyone's personal POV might be, and keeping a critical attitude is entirely legitimate.

Is it fair to criticize people for being gay too? I just don't see the points of these arguments. Thought people on this site "loved discussion". Nope. They love hearing their own opinions, and attacking and downvoting anything that is not conservative. I'm out.

The argument that no topic should be taboo or unavailable for discussion is not hateful, it is not an attack and it is not conservative.

Re: Reddit is banning any Aimee Challenor mention. UK public figure and Reddit admin

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Post by cde-v »

sonthonax wrote: post #78

Despite all the vitriol, I have a degree of sympathy for the Reddit admin in question. I can't imagine how distressing it must be to be turned into a worldwide hate figure overnight; that has to be extremely psychologically damaging. Among the mob will be genuinely hateful and equally vile people who'll probably send a tsunami of death threats. Reddit is in a bit of a difficult place; perhaps because of the legal dut…

Maybe don't hire a known child rapist/torturer if you don't want to be hated.

Re: Reddit is banning any Aimee Challenor mention. UK public figure and Reddit admin

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Post by subsubzero »

Reached out last week by a recruiter from reddit, guess I'll never work there. I refuse to work for a company where this kind of stuff is going on. Vote with your feet, and choose not to work at places like this. Vote with your hands and choose not to browse and be a user of sites like this.

Re: Reddit is banning any Aimee Challenor mention. UK public figure and Reddit admin

#96

Post by hfktk4nrn »

mercurysmessage wrote: post #64
hfktk4nrn wrote: post #48

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Trans is for Reddit what nuclear energy is for HN. Anything negative about these two issues will quickly get you downvoted, flagged and banned on the respective forum.

I don't see the need to say anything negative about trans people, it feels very similar to anti-gay rhetoric and talking points of the past. It's not contributing or helping, and actually causes a lot of harm.

Does that also include anything negative about a particular trans person?

Many for example consider unacceptable the inclusion of the word "transgender" in this article title (The Guardian of all places):

> Transgender prisoner who sexually assaulted inmates jailed for life

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2018/oct/11/transgender-...

Re: Reddit is banning any Aimee Challenor mention. UK public figure and Reddit admin

#97

Post by [deleted] »

mercurysmessage wrote: post #70
zozbot234 wrote: post #59

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Political/social criticism should not be mislabeled as "hate". Trans-related issues are extremely complex no matter what anyone's personal POV might be, and keeping a critical attitude is entirely legitimate.

Is it fair to criticize people for being gay too? I just don't see the points of these arguments. Thought people on this site "loved discussion". Nope. They love hearing their own opinions, and attacking and downvoting anything that is not conservative. I'm out.

[deleted]

Re: Reddit is banning any Aimee Challenor mention. UK public figure and Reddit admin

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Post by formerly_proven »

Quillbert182 wrote: post #20
DominikD wrote: post #10

Someone was banned from Reddit for linking to an article dead naming a trans woman. Did I get this right? If I did, what's the problem here, really?

It's not just that, they have banned any mention of her name. You literally cannot even type her name in private messages without the message at least getting deleted, if you aren't banned.

That's some Chinese Communist Party level censoring.

Re: Reddit is banning any Aimee Challenor mention. UK public figure and Reddit admin

#100

Post by dragonwriter »

Reddit has a real and serious potential liability if they didn't take action on this (now, there is a very good argument that hiring the individual in question in the role in question showed epically poor judgement, but, while a part of the chain of events that got the situation to this point, that's a different issue.)
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