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Re:Reddit’s Plan to Recover from Its Meltdown by tomlock on Thursday October 08, 2015 @01:51AM (#10351127)
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?

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Re:Reddit’s Plan to Recover from Its Meltdown by zyx321 on Thursday October 08, 2015 @05:55AM (#10351732)
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.

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