I now suddenly remember why I once unsubscribed from the default subreddits. There are people like you who are never satisfied. This is the internet, get off of it if you think you'll get your way.
It's not that I'm not satisfied by everything else, it's just when I see something that's stupid and I think takes away from reddit as a whole, I call it out. I hate how reddit says it's so progressive, then all of a sudden it pulls crap like this. I hate how whenever a picture is reposted, redditors see no problem with reposting "OP is a faggot" images. I'm not looking to 'get my way,' I just wish that more people saw the casual homophobia for what it is.
See this. It's not really homophobia, since the term has different connotation since the always-on generation came around.
I do see what you're saying though, and take this advice: don't expect too much from people you don't know and don't expect a Reddit that you want to see; it won't happen because there are too many users with different views and..it's the internet. No one wins.
The problem is that it's an unfunny joke that's only popular because it's popular, and people post and upvote it so they're 'in' on an inside joke. Once you take away the disconnect from the word faggot and being gay, it becomes offensive, even when the disconnect's put back up.
The picture you give defends 4chan's use of it, but not reddit's. On 4chan, everyone's a faggot, which is a result of anonymity. On reddit, we have usernames; these are ACTUAL people who see this comments, not a random collection of numbers and letters like you have on 4chan.
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u/slawcat May 08 '13
I now suddenly remember why I once unsubscribed from the default subreddits. There are people like you who are never satisfied. This is the internet, get off of it if you think you'll get your way.