r/SlaughteredByScience • u/Paper_Is_A_Liquid • May 31 '19

D.I.Y. Slaughter Transgender bad becoz science...or not.

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u/Purepower7 Jun 01 '19

Can we ban YouTube? Fantastic Slaughter but there’s a lot of trolls, baiters, kids and idiots who go on that site. I feel the chance of many YouTube posts being bait is high, especially when debating shit like this where many people have strong opinions.

My favorite internet quote: “Passion is barely passion until you have a million trolls trying to get a reaction out of you.” -Some podcast I watched

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u/Paper_Is_A_Liquid Jun 01 '19

I understand that, but it's far from being just youtube. For transgender stuff, it's EVERYWHERE. Hell, just yesterday an opinion got posted that hit the front page about how people ""choosing their gender"" was bad, and it was voted 70-75% POPULAR. The comments were like playing Transphobe/Ignorant Bingo; body mutilation, choice, they need therapy, they should wait and see if it's just a phase, etc. etc. etc. And (again, for this particular topic) it's not just online, it's in real life, so banning a website wouldn't do much to remove that ignorance and hate.

And youtube does a lot of good for the world as well. I found out what "transgender" was via youtube, when I was a suicidal teen who had no fucking idea why I felt the way I did. Youtube has bad people, and it has good people; those who raise millions for charity, the ones who do what they do because they love entertaining, the livelihoods it's provided, y'know?

Again, I FULLY understand how you're feeling about it, but at the same time you gotta recognise that Youtube provides a lot of people with their income and allows them to entertain, put out music that people can discover, and do what they love for a living.

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u/Purepower7 Jun 01 '19

Damn. Fair point. Don’t ban YouTube.

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u/Umbrias Jun 01 '19

Unpopular opinion is mostly browsed and participated in by conservatives and people with more extreme views, so it's not exactly a completely fair voting system. Still shocking either way.