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WSB is notorious for also posting a lot of anti-LGBT slurs (for example, one of WSBs favorite insults is calling someone a "gay bear", or more commonly a rainbo

WSB is notorious for also posting a lot of anti-LGBT slurs (for example, one of WSBs favorite insults is calling someone a "gay bear", or more commonly a rainbow emoji followed by a bear emoji, or even calling people f*gs). Also worth noting that the Discord group is so much worse than WSB the subreddit. Sometimes on the Discord server there are just people spamming the N word for no reason.

Alupis 6y ago
And who exactly is hurt here? I've never heard of this subreddit before, nor it's Discord Server, but I do know that one doesn't just stumble upon either on accident. The only people being hurt here are the ones that went looking to be hurt. What we have here is a group of immature people, emboldened by internet anonymity, saying stupid things for the "lolz". Does anyone think they'll be more mature because their server was banned? Of course not... they'll just make a new one, further emboldened by the obvious censorship. Let idiots be idiots, folks... we all know one when we see one.
- f430 6y ago
  Recall not too long ago the drama over github when one of the employers simply said to "watch out for nazis" during the DC Capitol incident. We are at a point where certain languages are being banned and made illegal, you can't blame people for being worried that we are on the cusp of totalitarianism. The banning of discord and r/wsb going private is quite scary, especially given the timing. I guess hedge fund managers are just like mob bosses, they do not like being played. edit: why is it that ANY mention of the github nazi incident gets INSTANTLY mass downvoted and flagged? Every single comment about this on HN gets censored.
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  - lawnchair_larry 6y ago
    Because the woke left are fascists who are desperate to police people’s language.
  - snet0 6y ago
    I didn't follow the GH drama too closely, especially not on HN, but the "apology" seemed to be very thoughtful and almost exactly what you'd want a company to offer in response to the complaints being made against them. I think using it as an example of language being banned/made illegal is something a lot of people would disagree with, and thus the disagreement with your comment.
Tenoke 6y ago
>WSB is notorious for also posting a lot of anti-LGBT slurs (for example, one of WSBs favorite insults is calling someone a "gay bear", or more commonly a rainbow emoji followed by a bear emoji, or even calling people f*gs). For what is worth, they pretty much never use it actually insultingly, and do not seem to harbor any ill-will against LGBT people (and some of them are lgbt). They also mostly use those words to describe themselves, and do it more as a nod to boiler room talk/4chan. >Sometimes on the Discord server there are just people spamming the N word for no reason. As far as I know, a lot of that is done by bots, though possibly set by other users to prank the discord.
- tonyhb 6y ago
  Agree. I'm fairly certain a lot of the posts are self-deprecating - eg. "my wife's boyfriend", "i'm a r**d", "someone smarter than me", "i'm a gay bear". My wife doesn't have a boyfriend (hopefully), but I'd say that in a post there. This isn't necessarily inflammatory. It is - like it or not - WSB's culture. It is not meant to be taken literally. It is a frothy place, full of herd mentality. That is part of the clique. Going against that does incur the same tone of language against you. But it's not for who you are personally. It's the same language they use to describe the "in group", but it _seems_ worse to the out group. Is the intent to mock people? No. Does it mean anything negative? No, 99% of it is literally re. the financials. Are there bad people in every group? Yes.
  - tidepod12 6y ago
    That's like saying that southerners flying confederate flags is "just their culture, not meant to be taken literally". That dog don't hunt.
    - matz1 6y ago
      Same thing, intent matter.
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Der_Einzige 6y ago
"Gay bear" is not an insult or pejorative. Most of wsb were "gay bears* in Feb - April.
- tidepod12 6y ago
  "Gay bear" is almost exclusively used as an insult on the subreddit, and this week has been one of the primary insults used in reference to the short sellers (everyones #1 enemy on WSB right now). It would still be pejorative even if not used that way, but it's ridiculous to claim that it's not a pejorative when it is explicitly used as an insult.
  - Der_Einzige 6y ago
    I don't know what else to say except that you're wrong.
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  - llampx 6y ago
    The only insults being hurled at anyone right now are to CNBC and to the hedge funds and their market maker buddies. Possibly the SEC for allowing brazen market manipulation on the part of the above.
- virmundi 6y ago
  And that, kids, is how I lost $100,000.
chokeartist 6y ago
Who cares? Oh yeah. People like you.
dpumpshitlord 6y ago
Fag
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Alupis 6y ago

And who exactly is hurt here? I've never heard of this subreddit before, nor it's Discord Server, but I do know that one doesn't just stumble upon either on accident. The only people being hurt here are the ones that went looking to be hurt. What we have here is a group of immature people, emboldened by internet anonymity, saying stupid things for the "lolz". Does anyone think they'll be more mature because their server was banned? Of course not... they'll just make a new one, further emboldened by the obvious censorship. Let idiots be idiots, folks... we all know one when we see one.

f430 6y ago
Recall not too long ago the drama over github when one of the employers simply said to "watch out for nazis" during the DC Capitol incident. We are at a point where certain languages are being banned and made illegal, you can't blame people for being worried that we are on the cusp of totalitarianism. The banning of discord and r/wsb going private is quite scary, especially given the timing. I guess hedge fund managers are just like mob bosses, they do not like being played. edit: why is it that ANY mention of the github nazi incident gets INSTANTLY mass downvoted and flagged? Every single comment about this on HN gets censored.
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- lawnchair_larry 6y ago
  Because the woke left are fascists who are desperate to police people’s language.
- snet0 6y ago
  I didn't follow the GH drama too closely, especially not on HN, but the "apology" seemed to be very thoughtful and almost exactly what you'd want a company to offer in response to the complaints being made against them. I think using it as an example of language being banned/made illegal is something a lot of people would disagree with, and thus the disagreement with your comment.

Tenoke 6y ago

>WSB is notorious for also posting a lot of anti-LGBT slurs (for example, one of WSBs favorite insults is calling someone a "gay bear", or more commonly a rainbow emoji followed by a bear emoji, or even calling people f*gs). For what is worth, they pretty much never use it actually insultingly, and do not seem to harbor any ill-will against LGBT people (and some of them are lgbt). They also mostly use those words to describe themselves, and do it more as a nod to boiler room talk/4chan. >Sometimes on the Discord server there are just people spamming the N word for no reason. As far as I know, a lot of that is done by bots, though possibly set by other users to prank the discord.

tonyhb 6y ago
Agree. I'm fairly certain a lot of the posts are self-deprecating - eg. "my wife's boyfriend", "i'm a r**d", "someone smarter than me", "i'm a gay bear". My wife doesn't have a boyfriend (hopefully), but I'd say that in a post there. This isn't necessarily inflammatory. It is - like it or not - WSB's culture. It is not meant to be taken literally. It is a frothy place, full of herd mentality. That is part of the clique. Going against that does incur the same tone of language against you. But it's not for who you are personally. It's the same language they use to describe the "in group", but it _seems_ worse to the out group. Is the intent to mock people? No. Does it mean anything negative? No, 99% of it is literally re. the financials. Are there bad people in every group? Yes.
- tidepod12 6y ago
  That's like saying that southerners flying confederate flags is "just their culture, not meant to be taken literally". That dog don't hunt.
  - matz1 6y ago
    Same thing, intent matter.
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Der_Einzige 6y ago

"Gay bear" is not an insult or pejorative. Most of wsb were "gay bears* in Feb - April.

tidepod12 6y ago
"Gay bear" is almost exclusively used as an insult on the subreddit, and this week has been one of the primary insults used in reference to the short sellers (everyones #1 enemy on WSB right now). It would still be pejorative even if not used that way, but it's ridiculous to claim that it's not a pejorative when it is explicitly used as an insult.
- Der_Einzige 6y ago
  I don't know what else to say except that you're wrong.
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- llampx 6y ago
  The only insults being hurled at anyone right now are to CNBC and to the hedge funds and their market maker buddies. Possibly the SEC for allowing brazen market manipulation on the part of the above.
virmundi 6y ago
And that, kids, is how I lost $100,000.

chokeartist 6y ago

Who cares? Oh yeah. People like you.

dpumpshitlord 6y ago

Fag

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