Reddit shuts down subreddits including r/The_Donald and r/ChapoTrapHouse

Re:Reddit shuts down subreddits including r/The_Donald and r... by fernandotakai on Monday June 29, 2020 @01:52PM (#23680135)

also banned gendercritical, which was an extreme left, radical feminist (as in, Valerie Solanas radical feminism) board.

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Re:Reddit shuts down subreddits including r/The_Donald and r... by Miner49er on Monday June 29, 2020 @01:54PM (#23680170)

Gendercritical was not "extreme left". It was an anti-trans (TERF) subreddit hated by actual leftist subs.

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Re:Reddit shuts down subreddits including r/The_Donald and r... by cylon13 on Monday June 29, 2020 @02:21PM (#23680563)

Confusion caused by attempting to sort human beliefs in a one-dimensional space strikes again! To be clear I'm not agreeing or disagreeing with you or the parent poster, just commenting on the ambiguity.

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Re:Reddit shuts down subreddits including r/The_Donald and r... by makomk on Monday June 29, 2020 @04:29PM (#23682455)

TERFs falling out of favour with the "actual leftist subs" is also a relatively new thing... they used to be strongly TERF apologist at the very least, if not actively and heavily promoting them in the case of several of the more feminist-aligned ones. Think last few years. This isn't just a Reddit thing either; questioning their ties to the UK's main left-wing political party (which has actually influenced our laws for the worse) used to be way outside the range of acceptable leftism, but has suddenly become a controversial hot topic in the last few months.

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Re:Reddit shuts down subreddits including r/The_Donald and r... by u320 on Monday June 29, 2020 @02:11PM (#23680404)

Just because something is hated by most of the left doesn't make it "not left".

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Re:Reddit shuts down subreddits including r/The_Donald and r... by abellerose on Monday June 29, 2020 @02:16PM (#23680472)

As a trans person myself. All that subreddit did was target hate towards trans people. Anyone care to elaborate on what else they did with actual proof?

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Re:Reddit shuts down subreddits including r/The_Donald and r... by nullc on Monday June 29, 2020 @02:51PM (#23681009)

Asking for actual proof now is a bit of a tall bar since the subreddit is no longer accessible!

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Re:Reddit shuts down subreddits including r/The_Donald and r... by abellerose on Monday June 29, 2020 @03:02PM (#23681179)

Oh I'm sorry that you don't know of https://archive.org/web

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Re:Reddit shuts down subreddits including r/The_Donald and r... by brailsafe on Tuesday June 30, 2020 @06:28AM (#23688638)

Seems a bit strange that you'd simultaneously ask for proof and expect others to accept your premise as fact without also providing something more substantive than "I'm X so therefore I'm an authority on Y"

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Re:Reddit shuts down subreddits including r/The_Donald and r... by duskwuff on Monday June 29, 2020 @03:35PM (#23681599)

"Skeptical of gender" is a cover phrase for "denying the existence of trans people". So, yes.

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Re:Reddit shuts down subreddits including r/The_Donald and r... by empthought on Monday June 29, 2020 @04:53PM (#23682873)

Are you skeptical of the shahada? If you are skeptical of the shahada, does this mean you deny the existence of Muslim people?

Are you skeptical of the Nicene creed? If you are skeptical of the Nicene creed, does this mean you deny the existence of Christian people?

Are you skeptical of body thetans? If you are skeptical of body thetans, does this mean you deny the existence of Scientologists?

Are you skeptical of climate change? If you are skeptical of climate change, does this mean you deny the existence of climatologists?

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