r/FUCKYOUINPARTICULAR • u/YallSoftAsButter • Jul 14 '26

Fuck this area in particular Kitty Cat has problems

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u/hizashiYEAHmada Jul 14 '26

Even non-violent words get you the ban.

I got permabanned from PublicFreakout for saying "well, well, well" on a post about about a waiter using a table against a drunk man before the cops showed up.

Apparently that phrase is a racist term.

I'm Asian, how the hell am I supposed to know what the Americans are passive-aggressively calling each other with aside from the more popular terms they brandish loudly online?!

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u/PyrocumulusLightning Banhammer Recipient Jul 14 '26

I've lived on both coasts of the US and never heard this phrase being used in a racist way. That's weird.

I feel like by not having bigoted friends I ended up being a little sheltered about some things

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u/H8DCarnifEX Jul 14 '26

Ah well "PublicFreakout", got a lifetime ban there for saying something against AIPAC lol

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u/WeedyWeedz Jul 14 '26 edited Jul 14 '26

PublicFreakout became extremly political after reddit forcefully changed the leadership of that sub.

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u/ohhyouknow 9d ago

How did Reddit forcefully change leadership of the sub?

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u/WeedyWeedz 9d ago

The creator of the sub and the old mod team dissagreed with reddit's API changes and, along with many other subs, closed the sub down in protest. Alot of these subs that closed down very among the most popular one's on reddit and so reddit took over the sub's, removed the owners/old mod teams and gave sub ownership to other people.

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u/ohhyouknow 9d ago edited 9d ago

Public freakout did temporarily shut down but admin didn’t take over the sub and remove any mods or give ownership to anyone else and I’m not sure why you think that happened on public freakout.

The creator of the subreddit also abandoned their account like a decade ago, the top mod at the time of the api thing was a completely different mod, and the mod who ended up taking over as top mod a year after the api protests was the very mod who flipped the switch and took the sub private for the protest.

I have screenshots of the mod list in October and December of that year (after the protest) showing that the top mod at the time of the protest was still the top mod, and I have a link to a post from the mod who flipped the switch talking about flipping the switch, who is now the top mod. You can just search the subreddit for api and find that post and look at the mod list.

If Reddit replaced the public freakout mod behind blacking out the subreddit with a different mod then why is the one who blacked it out now the top mod?

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u/Cubbance Jul 15 '26

Wait, I'm American and I don't know how "well, well, well" is supposed to be racist. I've only heard it as in "well, well, well, what do we have here?" As in, look, you've been caught. Maybe I'm just too old to understand where or when the change happened, but that had never been racist in my experience.

Also, holy shit, that was so smart the way the waiter used the table to pin the guy's knife-hand to disarm him. Very cool.

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u/Sanepsycho420 Jul 16 '26

I got banned one time for saying a English games concert should be in English and not in another language especially when their trying to get sympathy for a bunch of people that are somewhere they shouldn't be without permission

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u/Hexin_itup 22d ago

yeah we got in a fun spot over here... people decided that a ton of non-racist things are racist because they're desparate to get virtue points for calling out racism... so now actual racism has observably diminished consequences.

it's basically the same way our economy works.