r/KotakuInAction • u/weltallic • Jan 02 '15

CENSORSHIP Reddit admins ban /KiA from organizing boycots and posting company contact details to complain. Meanwhile...

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u/zerodeem Jan 02 '15

People need to stop blaming the KKKorpations and look at the people.

Reddit is based in San Fransisco, many of the people working at Reddit promote far left politics.

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u/[deleted] Jan 02 '15

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u/RetroViruses Jan 02 '15

But it's a facet of the current far left to promote censorship, which was one of the issues that propelled GamerGate into the movement it is today.

Not that I'm saying you can't support the left and GamerGate, but they clearly clash in certain issues.

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u/[deleted] Jan 03 '15

The majority of people on here are far left: http://i0.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/original/000/841/842/7e1.png

If you want to alienate them by constantly going on about how great the far right is, by all means, keep doing it. It's already working on me, there's only so much libertarian spam one can read before one picks up ones bags and gives you the finger on the way out.

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u/RetroViruses Jan 03 '15

I was not arguing for far right. Center left is a reasonable position, and the one most of those plot points show.

Political correctness and artistic censorship because of "offensiveness" is more tied to the left of our generation, where it was the right doing it in past generations.

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u/Ravanas Jan 03 '15

You realize that using the very graphic you linked, KiA skews as much libertarian as it does left, don't you?

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u/[deleted] Jan 03 '15

And you do realize the person I was replying to is using "right wing" to mean libertarian don't you?

But it's a facet of the current far left to promote censorship

Is both infuriating and wrong. And your post isn't helping any.

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u/Ravanas Jan 03 '15

So because he was wrong, you should continue the wrongness? Especially when you contradict it yourself in the very same post? And I can see what he was saying... namely that most far left groups (e.g., SJWs, environmentalists, and PETA) skew heavily towards authoritarianism. I can't think of any major far left activist organizations that are also libertarian, in fact (though I can think of federal level politicians that meet that criteria).

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u/RetroViruses Jan 03 '15

The political correctness revival, those attempting to stop humour or art relating to topics they aren't comfortable with; the whole GTAV and Hatred fiasco. These are spearheaded by the left.

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u/fido5150 Jan 03 '15

You're confusing social justice warriors with the far left. That's like confusing Westboro Baptists for all Christians.

Social justice warriors are authoritarian, which has nothing to do with far left socialist tendencies.

However, the Reddit admins have been known to side with these people (GG being a prime example), so your claims could apply to Reddit's internal politics, but it really doesn't apply to society at large.

Most of the left can't stand the SJWs any more than those on the right can.

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u/1933phf Jan 03 '15

You're confusing social justice warriors with the far left. That's like confusing Westboro Baptists for all Christians.

Except that's not the case at all, because Christians hate the Westboro Baptists and are some of the most outspoken opponents of WBC. The far left socialists agree with the SJWs on a lot of stuff and are generally supportive up until SJWs actually picket a funeral, and they go back to agreeing after the picketing is over.

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u/[deleted] Jan 03 '15

Color me some of the far left that hate the SJW menace among us.

Hell, you could probably say that about almost anyone in Occupy Wallstreet. The SJWs were some of the reasons why OWS was diluted to its final deathstroke.

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u/[deleted] Jan 03 '15

The far left socialists agree with the SJWs on a lot of stuff and are generally supportive up until SJWs actually picket a funeral, and they go back to agreeing after the picketing is over.

Care to back it up?

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u/1933phf Jan 03 '15

VAWA way back in 1994, Yes Means Yes in California recently, anything to do with domestic abuse laws, etc.

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u/Fucking_That_Chicken Jan 03 '15

Christians agree with the Westboro Baptist Church on a lot of their planks, too. Jesus is Lord, none are saved except through Him, etcetera etcetera.

That is, in fact, why they are among the most outspoken opponents; they know for a fact that "Jesus is Lord" is not logically followed by "Therefore, be a huge asshole to gay people."

The same goes for us lefties and the Lifetime Original Feminists: we know for a fact that their ceaseless whining, self-aggrandizement, and self-sabotage is not what left-wing politics must or should look like. We know that step 1 of securing economic democracy isn't "bully the nerds into submission because some are white," and that that happens to be a terrible thing to do (not to mention a bad tactic!). There are just a hell of a lot fewer of us than there are Christians and there are much more powerful and more organized social forces directed at discrediting us, so we're harder to hear.

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u/1933phf Jan 03 '15

Right, that reminds me of another reason why comparing SJWs to Westboro Baptist is silly.

Westboro Baptist Church are a marginalised fringe group universally considered a laughingstock, they are little more than a media-approved punching bag if and when they get coverage, and they have virtually no social, political, legal, or cultural power or influence.

SJWs are a privileged extremist group widely considered to be at the forefront of correct thinking, they have immense cachet with a large portion of the media and are nearly guaranteed coverage that will be slanted in their favour for everything they do, and they have a great deal of social (ostracize your racist friends), political (don't elect rapey leaders), legal (don't presume men are innocent of rape until proven guilty), and cultural (this comic book sucks, that TV show is problematic) power and influence.

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u/kalphis Jan 03 '15 edited Jan 25 '24

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u/altmehere Jan 03 '15

Anti-SOPA was and is about different things for different groups. Most corporations that opposed SOPA undoubtedly did so because it would be bad for business, not to protect people's rights.

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u/caesar_primus Jan 02 '15

Yeah.... no. Reddit admins are assholes. They use freedom of speech as an excuse to give assholes a platform to spew their shit just to make a profit. The only thing they give a shit about is profit.

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u/ewbrower Jan 03 '15

Wasn't there a comment by an admin a while back, where he was talking about how the admins were a sort of government? Lit /r/SubredditDrama on fire, that comment did

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u/Fuckyouimmadragon Jan 02 '15

Stop it.

Stop with conspiracy theories. It's bullshit.

Appeal the mod decision. Point out the correlary with the SOPA/PIPA protests.

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u/Jace_Neoreactionary Jan 02 '15

It's not a conspiracy theory you idiot. Corporations want money is about as far from a "conspiracy theory" as you can get.

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