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The internet is growing up.

• learning_still 11y ago
  I think it just became popular. I don't think it grew up at all. This all seemed to start happening after the facebook boom and all of my friends suddenly knew what a meme was.
• mc32 11y ago
  The question is, is the locker room, the powder room, the boardroom, etc. growing up? There is a place for civil discourse and there is a place for people to be as ugly as they want to be or are. Else you're just pretending it does not exist or that you can wish it away. This is like religious people thinking that if you only think pure thoughts all will be well in the world. The same people who want to see crime-ridden neighborhoods bulldozed over to bring about the new society where everything is resplendescent, bright and tame and only the good people live and there is no Other. There are no drug abusers, misogynistic men, cruel women, or human traffickers.
  • tomlock 11y ago
    I don't really think that the action of sanitizing reddit could be characterized as "pretending it does not exist or that you can wish it away". Its pretty likely that the people that are trying to do that are acutely aware of the presence of the Other. I also find it curious that you're using the capital o Other. Is that a deliberately existentialist term?
    • zyx321 11y ago
      The capital-O Other is our capital-E Enemy. They stand for everything we don't stand for. Jokes aside, it seems that has been a growing awareness for the concept of "othering," as in emphasizing the difference between your ingroup (AKA Us, AKA people like you) and an outgroup (AKA Them). Unfortunately it has little to do with the relatively benign idea you might be thinking about.