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

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[-] smoll_pp_operator@vlemmy.net 134 points 1 year ago

Allowing racists and fascists a seat at the table under the guise of 'fairness' or 'free speech'. Reddit became polluted with far-right astroturfing in the last six years.

It is not tolerance to welcome those persons who seek to harm you.

[-] Scrawny@lemm.ee 53 points 1 year ago

We cannot tolerate intolerance.

[-] Galluf@lemmy.world 10 points 1 year ago

That's a paradox. You cannot tolerate everything. That's why there's no such thing as not being bigoted. It's literally impossible to tolerate everything.

You just have to pick what things you're not going to tolerate. Now if only we could always agree on what that is.

[-] CeruleanRuin@lemmy.one 4 points 1 year ago

Intolerance. Intolerance is the one thing you don't tolerate. It being a rhetorical paradox doesn't mean it's difficult to implement.

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[-] lynny@lemmy.world 37 points 1 year ago

Reddit was full of racists even back in the early 2010s. /r/Coontown was a prime example of that.

[-] SpaceToast@mander.xyz 20 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I’ll counter and say that calling anyone you disagree with a racist/fascist in order to feel superior.

That shit was rampant on Reddit and seems to be slowly creeping into Lemmy as well.

Lol never mind, I guess it’s rampant here as well.

[-] Vlyn@lemmy.ml 29 points 1 year ago

I've never been called either in nearly 12 years on Reddit (and being plenty active with ~120k comment karma).

Maybe if you often get called that you should re-evaluate your opinions?

[-] Dee_Imaginarium@beehaw.org 10 points 1 year ago

Yeah, same. I think they doth protest too much lol

[-] SpaceToast@mander.xyz 8 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

You are a fascist.

It’s easy to blend in when you blindly follow the narrative.

[-] CeruleanRuin@lemmy.one 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

As if there is ever one "the" narrative. We're all following narratives, brother.

[-] c0mplexx@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago

brother I got called a racist for saying a football (soccer) player who happens to be black is shite
and football fans are way less trigger happy with accusations of racism than americans seem to be, even if they themselves are american for some reason

[-] CeruleanRuin@lemmy.one 3 points 1 year ago

Wow there's a lot of weird baggage in this comment.

[-] c0mplexx@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

are you doing what the other guy that is getting downvoted is talking about? 🤔
or wait did i misunderstand

[-] Feathercrown@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

Not in my experience; you just have to interact with the right people and they'll sling those accusations around like mashed potatoes in a food fight.

[-] ram@lemmy.ramram.ink 24 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Did you experience this often?

Edit: Y U P

[-] SpaceToast@mander.xyz 6 points 1 year ago

I know you think you’re being clever, but you see it in almost every front page thread on Reddit.

[-] ram@lemmy.ramram.ink 30 points 1 year ago
[-] SpaceToast@mander.xyz 9 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Not sure how you think any of those comments are some sort of gotcha.

Explain how they are racist/facist instead of just being an emotional child who follows the hive mind.

Also, like a typical Reddit user, you will dig through someone’s post history to find something to discredit them instead of having an actual point.

[-] Serinus@lemmy.ml 14 points 1 year ago

"dig through". Man, your comment after this one is defending oil companies. And a few comments before is a ridiculous propaganda talking point.

There's a very important reason post history is public. It makes this site harder to manipulate than 4chan. It's so much easier for one actor to overpower 4chan it's ridiculous. A Reddit operation is still certainly possible, but much more challenging.

[-] SpaceToast@mander.xyz 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Lol defending oil companies. You guys are ridiculous.

I guess pointing out how supply and demand works is “defending oil companies”.

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[-] msprout@beehaw.org 9 points 1 year ago

Mmm, this might be a you problem.

[-] CeruleanRuin@lemmy.one 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

If that's an issue that actually affects you often enough to complain about it, maybe, uh, maybe you should, idunno, search your soul or something.

You know what they say about someone who is always complaining that every room smells like dog shit when he walks into it.

[-] SpaceToast@mander.xyz 2 points 1 year ago

I never said people called me racist. I was a Reddit lurker. But you see it all over the place and unfortunately here too.

Such a sad way to live, constantly filled with anger and hatred.

[-] CeruleanRuin@lemmy.one 2 points 1 year ago

Don't be so quick to dismiss people's anger. It comes from a place of their own truth. They probably have a good reason for it. Acknowledge the truth first and then address the complaint.

[-] SpaceToast@mander.xyz 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I’ll give you that, but it unfortunately leads to a lot of prejudice and antisocial behavior.

My comment is a perfect example. All I said was that people shouldn’t call others facist/racist, and that was all it took for everyone to assume that I am.

[-] CeruleanRuin@lemmy.one 2 points 1 year ago

I'll grant that it is often used as a thought-terminating cliché, and we should all be judicious it its use. But sometimes you just call something what it is.

[-] SpaceToast@mander.xyz 2 points 1 year ago

And 90% of the time it is exactly that.

[-] peter@feddit.uk 16 points 1 year ago

In the last 6 years? If anything, reddit got less tolerant of the far right since inception, it just became a bigger deal when they banned them in the last 6 years

[-] smoll_pp_operator@vlemmy.net 35 points 1 year ago

You believe what you want to. Nothing I say is going to convince you, random internet person.

I had used reddit since the near beginning, and over time the prevalence of 'alternative facts' and other right-wing narratives has risen sharply. You also have communities like r/conservative that participate in open calls to violence and perpetuate right wing dogwhistles for maximum rage bait. The sheer slide of r/politicalcompassmemes going from people role-playing different ideologies to thinly-veiled alt-right propaganda speaks to this shift.

Catering to conservatives and right wing players results in the enshittification of the website.

[-] peter@feddit.uk 17 points 1 year ago

I think that generally the internet got more of those types of people and they got louder, reddit used to have subreddits whose names were just slurs or subreddits blatantly dedicated to racism. The idea of a "dogwhistle" on reddit didn't exist because the racists just said and did racist things without fear of being banned.

[-] Serinus@lemmy.ml 18 points 1 year ago

Yeah, you're both right. There's less outright hate now, but more propaganda.

Political Compass Memes is the Fox News version of fair and balanced. It's intended to convert people with a thin veil of "both sides". And that thin veil will be enough for a lot of impressionable kids.

[-] CeruleanRuin@lemmy.one 2 points 1 year ago

Well yeah, to continue with the fire metaphor, it's hard to put out a fire once you've already let it get out of hand. PLENTY of people were warning about those communities before they grew into the mob that stormed the capital, for example. Reddit only stepped in and did something about them when it became a bad look for them to let them keep shitting on the lawn.

[-] Galluf@lemmy.world 15 points 1 year ago

Whether or not it's tolerance isn't directly important.

The mistake that people make is assuming that tolerance is inherently good. It is to a certain degree, but there are many things that you do not want to tolerate. That's where we want to be.

However, many people think of themselves as tolerant and find it difficult to make that conceptual realization.

[-] c0mplexx@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year 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@lemm.ee 9 points 1 year ago

They shouldn't have even had those and they weren't 'contained'

[-] c0mplexx@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year 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 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year 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.

[-] c0mplexx@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

im sure banning those communities will end racism

[-] CeruleanRuin@lemmy.one 3 points 1 year ago

I'm sure installing fire hydrants in cities will end structure fires.

[-] c0mplexx@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

well if you want to compare people to fires be my guest

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[-] CeruleanRuin@lemmy.one 5 points 1 year ago

Everyone should familiarize themselves with the paradox of tolerance if they haven't already.

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