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Re: Reddit CEO Cracks Down on Abusive Content to Protect Users, Attract Advertisers

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Post by 52-6F-62 »

SippinLean wrote: post #219
Fnoord wrote: post #9

Earlier quoted context omitted.

At least you know what you get when you visit /r/The_Donald. Is it better to have a cesspit bubble/sandbox than having none?

It's hardly a sandbox, but more of an inlet with a lot of spillover. There's anecdotally been a HUGE spike in bigotry and white supremacy on what used to be good subs since last year when that sub grew in numbers. Looking at the post history of these users, it almost always includes t_d.

They're also no strangers to organized brigading of other subs, unfortunately. It's a pretty irritating phenomenon.

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Post by 52-6F-62 »

Pxtl wrote: post #351
Mikeb85 wrote: post #311

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/r/Canada isn't too bad because that's how Canadians are. Even when we disagree we generally try to be civil.

No, I meant /r/CanadaPolitics, but the name got autocorrected away. /r/Canada is a hive of racism and getting worse since the last election or so.

It seems to have a pretty heavy swing back and forth, depending on the time of day. I've seen this noted before, and seen the effect to some extent.

It can definitely get hairy, sadly.

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Post by alexanderstears »

s73ver_ wrote: post #366
alexanderstears wrote: post #352

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>In just about every study, it's been shown that, no, the crime rates are not disproportionately higher. Are we even talking about the same thing? There are absolutely groups that commit more crimes than others. Do you honestly need a citation for a claim like, "young men commit more crimes than elderly women?" >No, it's not. Not in the slightest. Wanting equality only looks bigoted to those who benefit from the ineq…

"Are we even talking about the same thing? There are absolutely groups that commit more crimes than others. Do you honestly need a citation for a claim like, "young men commit more crimes than elderly women?"" You should be able to cite something for that claim, yes. But you know we're not talking about those kinds of groups; we are talking about the ones that are highlighted on sites like Breitbart. "Feminism is big…

You're demanding that I defend claims I never made / claims you've accused me of making. I'm not going to do it and I'm not going to respond to your messages.

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Post by zimpenfish »

tscs37 wrote: post #365
zimpenfish wrote: post #363

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> [group we don't like] I appreciate that you're trying to trivialise this into some kind of "different sports team" difference of opinion to score a cheap point but you're wrong - these people want others dead, removed, or subjugated purely because they're different. And that is something that in 2017, the human race should be saying a very strong "No, get to fuck, you scrotes" to.

>these people want others dead, removed, or subjugated purely because they're different. And the other sports team just wants different things to be done. Admittedly not as drastic... yet. >And that is something that in 2017, the human race should be saying a very strong "No, get to fuck, you scrotes" to. In 2017, almost 2018, the human race should have learned how to control these kind of ideologies without using br…

> the human race should have

It hasn't. Therefore we can either shrug our shoulders and let people get on with their subjugations and violations or we can accept that we're not an enlightened race of ubermensch ripped from a Star Trek episode and utilise our "brutish tribe mentality" to protect those who need it.

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Post by emodendroket »

zeveb wrote: post #348
emodendroket wrote: post #109

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Which ones do you have in mind? What left-wing sub is there advocating racism or misogyny?

/r/srs advocates misandry, which is just as hateful as misogyny. /r/atheism can be viciously anti-theist. /r/politics is full of anti-conservative hatred & bile. I'm not going to blame those nasty subreddits on the left; I'm going to blame those & all other nasty subreddits on the general nastiness of people, no matter what their philosophy or politics.

I am Christian and dislike /r/atheism as much as the next guy (especially when you consider how little they actually seem to understand about what they're condemning), but I think it's one hell of a stretch to equate that with hate speech. And considering there is no shortage of libertarian guys there the qualification as left-wing is dubious in the first place.

"Anti-conservative hatred" as equivalent is ridiculous on its face and whatever "misandry" the SRS guys promote should probably be understood in a context where there is no country on Earth where men are oppressed in comparison to women.

I'm not even saying any of those subs are good, but nobody in their right mind is going to equate them with people advocating genocide or "incels" advocating rape.

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Post by dragonwriter »

emodendroket wrote: post #375
zeveb wrote: post #348

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/r/srs advocates misandry, which is just as hateful as misogyny. /r/atheism can be viciously anti-theist. /r/politics is full of anti-conservative hatred & bile. I'm not going to blame those nasty subreddits on the left; I'm going to blame those & all other nasty subreddits on the general nastiness of people, no matter what their philosophy or politics.

I am Christian and dislike /r/atheism as much as the next guy (especially when you consider how little they actually seem to understand about what they're condemning), but I think it's one hell of a stretch to equate that with hate speech. And considering there is no shortage of libertarian guys there the qualification as left-wing is dubious in the first place. "Anti-conservative hatred" as equivalent is ridiculous…

> And considering there is no shortage of libertarian guys there the qualification as left-wing is dubious in the first place.

Libertarians can be left-wing, so the premise seems irrelevant to the conclusion.

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Post by emodendroket »

PeachPlum wrote: post #161
emodendroket wrote: post #109

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Which ones do you have in mind? What left-wing sub is there advocating racism or misogyny?

try posting "It's OKAY to be white" in a popular subreddit

Wow, people react negatively to a catchphrase of avowed racists? You can't really expect people to completely ignore context.

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Post by emodendroket »

dragonwriter wrote: post #376
emodendroket wrote: post #375

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I am Christian and dislike /r/atheism as much as the next guy (especially when you consider how little they actually seem to understand about what they're condemning), but I think it's one hell of a stretch to equate that with hate speech. And considering there is no shortage of libertarian guys there the qualification as left-wing is dubious in the first place. "Anti-conservative hatred" as equivalent is ridiculous…

> And considering there is no shortage of libertarian guys there the qualification as left-wing is dubious in the first place. Libertarians can be left-wing, so the premise seems irrelevant to the conclusion.

Are you really confused about what I meant (the type of extreme free-market politics advocated by figures like Ron Paul or Penn Jillette -- incidentally the latter is a prominent atheist) or are you just being a pedant for the sake of it?

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Post by dragonwriter »

emodendroket wrote: post #378
dragonwriter wrote: post #376

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> And considering there is no shortage of libertarian guys there the qualification as left-wing is dubious in the first place. Libertarians can be left-wing, so the premise seems irrelevant to the conclusion.

Are you really confused about what I meant (the type of extreme free-market politics advocated by figures like Ron Paul or Penn Jillette -- incidentally the latter is a prominent atheist) or are you just being a pedant for the sake of it?

Well, not being familiar with /r/atheism, I wasn't sure if you actually meant what you said and we're drawing an invalid conclusion based on the popular portrayal of libertarians (at least in the US) as anti-bear, or if you meant specifically right-libertarians.

Had I been familiar with /r/atheism, I might have been able to guess which of those was correct.

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Post by emodendroket »

dragonwriter wrote: post #379
emodendroket wrote: post #378

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Are you really confused about what I meant (the type of extreme free-market politics advocated by figures like Ron Paul or Penn Jillette -- incidentally the latter is a prominent atheist) or are you just being a pedant for the sake of it?

Well, not being familiar with /r/atheism, I wasn't sure if you actually meant what you said and we're drawing an invalid conclusion based on the popular portrayal of libertarians (at least in the US) as anti-bear, or if you meant specifically right-libertarians. Had I been familiar with /r/atheism, I might have been able to guess which of those was correct.

For future reference, when people say "libertarian" without further clarification, at least in American politics, they almost always mean right-libertarian.
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