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did you step out of a time machine from like 1991 or something? wow. rap music hasn't been "highly homophobic" for almost a generation.
Sheeple gonna sheeple
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I wonder if Facebook happens to know people's Reddit ids through some nefarious data collection scheme.
I'm not sure about that but 100% what you post on reddit will get you targeted for specific ads that appear on facebook
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>They are either trolls, racist, or derogatory comments that I WANT to have hidden from my view. This view is pretty naive. I suspect you just don't hold any opinions against the groupthink of the subreddits you participate in.
I think when its moderated away, it often shows bias. But when its downvoted away, in subreddits which have constituency that shows proper reasoning skills, I tend to agree that its all about quality of the comment. A controversial comment does in fact command a higher burden of proof. Thus the comment has to be of even higher quality. And when it is, I feel it survives the downvotes. At least I've generally been abl…
If the majority of your group is rational, a rational comment will not be controversial even if the view is unpopular. However, the vast majority of the population is not rational when it comes to reading unpopular opinions and that shows in every subreddit.
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they're most likely in /r/all. Reddit now has filters for subs that will show up in that feed, which handy.
It would show up in all. I won't no part of the hyper-liberal echo chamber or the national-populist cesspool.
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So you’re agnostic on murder, slavery, torture of children and animals, and rape? Come on, we have tons of clear rights and wrongs, and the kind of absolute moral relativism you’re peddling is a smokescreen.
Moral absolutism can make it seem like you are on the right side of the debate even when the ground is shifting. Lets take slavery as an example. Did you know that federal and state prisioners are forced to work for 30 cents or less an hour. If they refuse they get put in solitary. The average time someone is in solitary in the California prison system is 7.5 years. That is a form of torture. Slavery still exists law…
Conflating legality with morality is silly.
Are you aware/against those forms of slavery/torture?
Yes, because there are some moral absolutes, which is why you retreated from a moral argument into a legal one.