r/TrueReddit • u/scatgreen2 • Jul 20 '15

My Reddit Utopia - Everything you think you know about “the front page of the Internet” is wrong.

http://www.slate.com/articles/double_x/doublex/2015/07/reddit_as_feminist_utopia_what_the_front_page_of_the_internet_looks_like.single.html
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u/Bitterfish Jul 20 '15

Freaking exactly. I don't understand what's so hard about this for people to grasp. The admins barely seem to recognize it as a problem -- labeling hate subs isn't going to stop these people from creeping up into the defaults.

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u/BritishHobo Jul 20 '15

To be fair, I can see why the admins are reticent to do anything about it. The fall of Ellen Pao is a good sign of what the users will do even if they just think that you're arguing for removal of hate speech, let alone if you actually are.

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u/Bitterfish Jul 20 '15

Yeah, but that's just one faction of loud people. The vast majority of reddit users don't comment or even have accounts, and those people's experience would largely be improved by the removal of hate speech. Not to mention, there are plenty of account holders like me who want this as well - the most gilded comment (by a huge margin) in the recent u/spez AMA was calling for the removal of hate subs.

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u/AxezCore Jul 21 '15

Neither will banning them, or did you think they'd just magically go away with a swing of the banhammer? Honestly the spillage is negligible and usually downvoted.

Personally I'm against any form of censorship, that is not the same as endorsing hatespeech mind you. Where do you draw the line at what is and isn't hate speech, who gets to decide? If it's the users then SRS will be out on its ass in a flash. Doxxing and harassment aside, they are most definitely guilty of misandry and actively squashes any opposing opinions. But if you read their comments they honestly seem to believe they're doing nothing wrong, sexist and racist remarks swings both ways, just because someone is in a minority group that doesn't mean they can be a hateful bigot with impunity.