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Re:Can Steve Huffman Save Reddit from Itself? by girvo on Wednesday October 07, 2015 @07:00AM (#10345261)
> Reddit as it stands now is a hive of scum and villainy

200 million users, and you think they're all that are left on there?

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Re:Can Steve Huffman Save Reddit from Itself? by JulianMorrison on Wednesday October 07, 2015 @07:17AM (#10345319)
A rhetorical exaggeration, but the scum and villainy contingent are loud, and enablers are many. If it isn't you being targeted for hate, it's all too easy to say "oh I just talk about games" and never even notice how very white and male the discussion is. Not bothering to notice oppression is oppression (and an exercise of privilege).
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Re:Can Steve Huffman Save Reddit from Itself? by mark_integerdsv on Wednesday October 07, 2015 @09:48AM (#10345956)
What is wrong with being white and male?
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Re:Can Steve Huffman Save Reddit from Itself? by JulianMorrison on Wednesday October 07, 2015 @10:33AM (#10346233)
There are complications about the origin of both concepts, but in context, absolutely nothing.

What's wrong is not noticing that your conversation is nothing but white and male. It implies that there are people who have been driven out, one way or another, and you aren't surprised by their absence.

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Re:Can Steve Huffman Save Reddit from Itself? by mark_integerdsv on Thursday October 08, 2015 @03:41AM (#10351374)
>There are complications about the origin of both concepts

Are you suggesting that my race and gender are ...'problematic?'

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Re:Can Steve Huffman Save Reddit from Itself? by JulianMorrison on Thursday October 08, 2015 @04:10AM (#10351439)
Nah, at this point I'm suggesting that you're looking to argue.

Read this: https://medium.com/message/how-white-people-got-made-6eeb076...

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