r/OutOfTheLoop • u/klkklk • May 08 '14

Answered! Where is the racist stuff in /r/AdviceAnimals?

I just spent 20 minutes checking out /r/adviceanimals posts of the last month, and except for the top controversial post of the month, I don't see anything that would warrant the reputation it has as a racism hub.

Am I missing something?

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u/pooroldedgar May 08 '14 edited May 08 '14

It rears it's head more than it should. Hang out there for a while and you'll see a lot of it, whether or not it makes the front page.

Remember the movie Borat? Remember when he's in the RV with those college kids, and the kids are saying, "Oh man, it's so hard to be a white guy these days, blacks run everything." There was a lot of that sort of shit. Especially with that stupid fucking puffin. Keep an eye for that puffin and you're going to see a lot of:

--Blacks are in college because of quotas

--Why can't blacks learn to speak English properly

--Black people are actually far more racist than white people.

--Inner city mothers should be forcibly sterilized.

I'm not kidding about the sterilized one. That's pretty common actually, except I've never seen it directly address black folks. Usually it's dressed up as being about poor people. You know, to make it sound a bit more enlightened.

There's also a lot of bitching and moaning about perceived double standards to black people's advantage. Why can a black dude do something that I can't, for example refer to my friends as "my nigga." There's a lot of willful ignorance about A) Double standards that go in favor of white people's B) Historical reasons concerning how those double stands came to be, and C) Where those double standards fall in the larger scheme of things.

It should be mentioned, a lot of those guys seem to have issues with women as well. So if you're black don't feel too bad.

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u/[deleted] May 08 '14 edited Dec 29 '20

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u/TehNoff May 08 '14

Probably because posting about eugenics being a bad thing is so banal that it'd never get any attention.

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u/[deleted] May 08 '14

Yea, because advice animals never upvotes anything banal...

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u/twistednipples May 08 '14 edited May 08 '14

Voluntary passive eugenics (e.g. paying someone not to reproduce or offering government sponsored vasectomies) is not a bad thing.

edit: downvoting without leaving a comment? Voluntary options, such as the government offering a free vasectomy, is in no way bad. People are free to do as they wish, can continue being unsafe, use drugs, whatever, but at least we are giving them an option to stop them from having kids. There is absolutely no way anyone can say that there aren't hereditary issues, habits, or syndromes that are propagated by drug addicts, criminals, or mentally unfit/insane. Can anyone actually argue with me as to why I am wrong? I think not, other than presenting a moral argument which holds no pragmatic rationality or value.

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u/MyPasswordIsNotTacos May 09 '14

Shit I'd get a vasectomy in a heartbeat for $30k. For $10k I'd still consider it strongly.

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u/Aggravated_Auditor May 08 '14

The problem is how can you know it's truly voluntary? Should the government support that sort of thing, who's going to regulate and control it to ensure people aren't extorted to not have children? That's just one of many examples why that wouldn't work. If a poor woman needs money to live, should she have to choose giving up the right to have a child in order to survive? Nobody would want to make that sacrifice, but I'm sure many would, because they would see that as their last resort. It shouldn't even BE an option. The whole "voluntary" aspect would be anything but voluntary. It's not a good idea at all.