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Do not mistake this very opinionated column for news. Sadly it does not even try to present a balanced view on the issue. What I would really like to know is w
by aw3c2 11y ago
Do not mistake this very opinionated column for news. Sadly it does not even try to present a balanced view on the issue.
What I would really like to know is why subreddits like coontown (racism against black people) are still there if fatpeoplehate was banned. What exactly made them ban it. A little honestly and openness would help everyone, at least I see no reason against it?
- erikpukinskis 11y agoFrom Reddit admin krispykrackers: "When we are using the word "harass", we're not talking about "being annoying" or vote manipulation or anything. We're talking about men and women whose lives are being affected and worry for their safety every day, because people from a certain community on reddit have decided to actually threaten them, online and off, every day. When you've had to talk to as many victims of it as we have, you'd understand that a brigade from one subreddit to another is miles away from the harassment we don't want being generated on our site."
- tzs 11y agoI believe fatpeoplehate was doing things like posting pictures of random fat people encountered out in the world so that they could make fun of them and insult them. These were pictures of people who were not public figures or in the news. Based on a brief look at coontown, it looks like it is a generic black people are bad forum. The only mentions I saw of specific black people were black people who were in the news. That seems to be the key distinction.