A few examples include s*x questions on askreddit, “this” comments, nolife powermods, jokes being more frequent than actual answers

  • @c0mplexx@lemmy.world
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    -211 months ago

    what? reddit was an american “left” “look at how good of a person i am for hating on racists and pedophile” (like congrats?) circlejerk
    the racists and fascists were contained in their subreddits and were ignorable

    • @imPastaSyndrome
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      711 months ago

      They shouldn’t have even had those and they weren’t ‘contained’

      • @c0mplexx@lemmy.world
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        -311 months ago

        maybe if you were actively looking for them or are very easy on the trigger of calling people racist, yeah they weren’t contained I guess

        • @CeruleanRuin@lemmy.one
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          11 months ago

          Apathy toward intolerance only allows it to fester. You don’t walk past a pile of embers and shrug just because nothing’s currently on fire.

            • TheUniqueOne
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              11 months ago

              Protecting minorities so our communities can be a diverse place makes them so much better though. No one claims it will end racism that is just a ridiculous straw man.

              • @c0mplexx@lemmy.world
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                011 months ago

                they almost always were in their own little corner
                there’s no protecting minorities if they choose to go to racist places
                on the typical subreddits mods or even the admins themselves were fast to remove comments or posts so they were “protected”

                • TheUniqueOne
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                  311 months ago

                  I mean not really that’s not how it was at all. Default subreddits were filled with racism. Comments and posts were not removed unless the comment was straight up saying slurs. Comments filled with less overt racism were heavily upvoted.

                • @CeruleanRuin@lemmy.one
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                  211 months ago

                  If you were lucky enough to never encounter them, then well, congratulations. That certainly wasn’t my experience, or, I’d wager, a common experience.