Re:Reddit’s Plan to Recover from Its Meltdown
by tomlock on Thursday October 08, 2015 @01:51AM
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I don't really think that the action of sanitizing reddit could be characterized as "pretending it does not exist or that you can wish it away". Its pretty likely that the people that are trying to do that are acutely aware of the presence of the Other.
I also find it curious that you're using the capital o Other. Is that a deliberately existentialist term?
Re:Reddit’s Plan to Recover from Its Meltdown
by zyx321 on Thursday October 08, 2015 @05:55AM
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The capital-O Other is our capital-E Enemy. They stand for everything we don't stand for.
Jokes aside, it seems that has been a growing awareness for the concept of "othering," as in emphasizing the difference between your ingroup (AKA Us, AKA people like you) and an outgroup (AKA Them). Unfortunately it has little to do with the relatively benign idea you might be thinking about.
There is a place for civil discourse and there is a place for people to be as ugly as they want to be or are. Else you're just pretending it does not exist or that you can wish it away.
This is like religious people thinking that if you only think pure thoughts all will be well in the world.
The same people who want to see crime-ridden neighborhoods bulldozed over to bring about the new society where everything is resplendescent, bright and tame and only the good people live and there is no Other. There are no drug abusers, misogynistic men, cruel women, or human traffickers.