Here's my opinion as a fat guy. I am agreeing almost completely with Boogie in this video.. Sure, it was a shitty sub. It was filled with idiots with shitty opinions. However, I think reddit is hypocritical. They advertise themselves as the keepers of free speech but then break that narrative when it isn't financially beneficial for them. And they decide to ban this before /r/coontown, /r/picsofdeadkids, and other much worse subs. I mean it took them goddamn forever to ban /r/niggers. I don't disrespect their decision to make the site less bullying-friendly. I disrespect that they pretend that it actually is a safe space when they ONLY actually take action when it makes them look bad as a business. That is not a safe space. That is hypocrisy. We'll see. I don't think this is the death of reddit. I'm just disappointed with how they handled the situation. Let's see if they keep the promise and actually make a real attempt at making the site a safe space. I really doubt it.
I think this is the most important point to make. There will always be people hating on others for whatever retarded reason. Regardless of whether you ban them or not, you will not stop them from thinking it, and they will find other ways of expressing it.
Why would you want to oppress people who are expressing things on your site? Because it looks bad and it costs you advertisers' money. Really shit move, Reddit admins.
Here's my opinion as a fat guy. I am agreeing almost completely with Boogie in this video.. Sure, it was a shitty sub. It was filled with idiots with shitty opinions. However, I think reddit is hypocritical. They advertise themselves as the keepers of free speech but then break that narrative when it isn't financially beneficial for them. And they decide to ban this before /r/coontown, /r/picsofdeadkids, and other much worse subs. I mean it took them goddamn forever to ban /r/niggers. I don't disrespect their decision to make the site less bullying-friendly. I disrespect that they pretend that it actually is a safe space when they ONLY actually take action when it makes them look bad as a business. That is not a safe space. That is hypocrisy. We'll see. I don't think this is the death of reddit. I'm just disappointed with how they handled the situation. Let's see if they keep the promise and actually make a real attempt at making the site a safe space. I really doubt it.
I think this is the most important point to make. There will always be people hating on others for whatever retarded reason. Regardless of whether you ban them or not, you will not stop them from thinking it, and they will find other ways of expressing it.
Why would you want to oppress people who are expressing things on your site? Because it looks bad and it costs you advertisers' money. Really shit move, Reddit admins.