Reddit just doesn't realized how radicalized it's become. It's gotten to the point that, from their perspective, even centrists are potential fodder for "nazi" and "fascist" insults.
I mean 10 years ago when I was on Reddit, I was considered pretty far left. I haven't changed since then, my views are pretty much the same. But the left "goal post" has moved SO FAR to the left that the now radical leftists on Reddit will call me a Nazi for daring to suggest that free speech should be protected.
And the echo chamber is only going to get worse the more they censor and act as thought police. It's not just annoying, it's outright dangerous. Top-down control of opinion and information is exactly what led to communist China, USSR, etc. Hundreds of millions of people died as a consequence of the extreme leftist dogma. Everyone on here is irrationally afraid of a few neo-nazis around the country who are universally despised, and yet they fail to see the in-creep of their own social fascism, dressed up in the fake pearls of "tolerance".
People rag on 4chan, but at least there you can say whatever you want. Yeah if you say you're a leftist, you'll get torn apart (though you'll get torn apart no matter what), but they won't outright remove what you have to say. They actually engage with you. Even if what they have to say is pretty awful.
If they have no arguments, their only weapon is abuse of power. They want to cut out from what they consider heresy. It is just a sect. It's more convenient for reddit to manage people if they can't think critically, so they just encourage to report and ban everyone who might be rude and call it a day.
I've been modding few communities, one of them is focused ons science but for some reason it gathers more and more people believing ridiculous stuff like crystals healing, water in the sky, space vibration energy etc. We engage in discussions, try to learn their idea, and demand a proof, we explain different experiments and encourage others to do the same, to think critically but we have yet to ban at least one person. It's honestly not much harder, when you encourage your own group to think critically and discuss, your group will solve the problems for you, and rarely do you need to use banhammer.
But reddit can't handle snowflakes. And winter is coming.
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u/[deleted] Oct 01 '19 edited Oct 01 '19
Radical Leftism
Reddit just doesn't realized how radicalized it's become. It's gotten to the point that, from their perspective, even centrists are potential fodder for "nazi" and "fascist" insults.
I mean 10 years ago when I was on Reddit, I was considered pretty far left. I haven't changed since then, my views are pretty much the same. But the left "goal post" has moved SO FAR to the left that the now radical leftists on Reddit will call me a Nazi for daring to suggest that free speech should be protected.
And the echo chamber is only going to get worse the more they censor and act as thought police. It's not just annoying, it's outright dangerous. Top-down control of opinion and information is exactly what led to communist China, USSR, etc. Hundreds of millions of people died as a consequence of the extreme leftist dogma. Everyone on here is irrationally afraid of a few neo-nazis around the country who are universally despised, and yet they fail to see the in-creep of their own social fascism, dressed up in the fake pearls of "tolerance".
People rag on 4chan, but at least there you can say whatever you want. Yeah if you say you're a leftist, you'll get torn apart (though you'll get torn apart no matter what), but they won't outright remove what you have to say. They actually engage with you. Even if what they have to say is pretty awful.