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I've browsed TD since it's inception and haven't seen any violent, hateful, or racist posts. That's not to say that they haven't ever existed, but certainly no

I've browsed TD since it's inception and haven't seen any violent, hateful, or racist posts. That's not to say that they haven't ever existed, but certainly not anything remotely close to how it's perceived. And definitely not any worse than you would see right now on r/politics.

splintercell 6y ago
Same here, I don't know what their standard for racist and violent view is?
jayd16 6y ago
I don't know what to tell you. I followed it during the election but it got too disgusting. Immigrants, and Muslims were large targets from what I remember. Lots of misogyny towards Hillary Clinton as well but I guess that doesn't count. It was certainly much worse than r/politics which is very biased but not racist. Plenty of really gross Pepe memes. I mean, I don't know what to tell you. 538 did an interesting analysis into the kind of people on the sub at the time https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/dissecting-trumps-most-rabid-online-following/ https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/dissecting-trumps-most-... They always did a good job of some token news story as a "see we're good guys!" type post but if you scratched the surface and read the comments its was obvious. The 538 article has some examples https://np.reddit.com/r/The_Donald/comments/5ldfmg/red_pills_are_the_hardest_to_swallow/ https://np.reddit.com/r/The_Donald/comments/5ldfmg/red_pills...
purephase 6y ago
Oh give me a break. You're being willfully ignorant if you actually believe this to be the case. For months there were front page posts on reddit, manipulated by bots, from TD that were some of the worst content I've ever seen outside of 4chan. I mean, reddit scrambled to implement a subreddit filtering feature just to provide a means for users to filter TD out due to the near constant complaints about the content of that sub. Meanwhile, they banned other subreddits for much, much less. They actively fought to provide them their safe space and wrote actual features to support that subreddit.
inappropriately 6y ago
You're a liar.

splintercell 6y ago

Same here, I don't know what their standard for racist and violent view is?

jayd16 6y ago

I don't know what to tell you. I followed it during the election but it got too disgusting. Immigrants, and Muslims were large targets from what I remember. Lots of misogyny towards Hillary Clinton as well but I guess that doesn't count. It was certainly much worse than r/politics which is very biased but not racist. Plenty of really gross Pepe memes. I mean, I don't know what to tell you. 538 did an interesting analysis into the kind of people on the sub at the time https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/dissecting-trumps-most-rabid-online-following/ https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/dissecting-trumps-most-... They always did a good job of some token news story as a "see we're good guys!" type post but if you scratched the surface and read the comments its was obvious. The 538 article has some examples https://np.reddit.com/r/The_Donald/comments/5ldfmg/red_pills_are_the_hardest_to_swallow/ https://np.reddit.com/r/The_Donald/comments/5ldfmg/red_pills...

purephase 6y ago

Oh give me a break. You're being willfully ignorant if you actually believe this to be the case. For months there were front page posts on reddit, manipulated by bots, from TD that were some of the worst content I've ever seen outside of 4chan. I mean, reddit scrambled to implement a subreddit filtering feature just to provide a means for users to filter TD out due to the near constant complaints about the content of that sub. Meanwhile, they banned other subreddits for much, much less. They actively fought to provide them their safe space and wrote actual features to support that subreddit.

inappropriately 6y ago

You're a liar.