Re:Reddit shuts down subreddits including r/The_Donald and r...
by Can_Not on Tuesday June 30, 2020 @07:10AM
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Damn, I can't believe they took a non-neutral stance on extrajudicial murder of black people. Crazy stuff.
Re:Reddit shuts down subreddits including r/The_Donald and r...
by spamuel on Tuesday June 30, 2020 @01:25PM
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There are an endless number of causes one could "black out" for. But they just so happened to black out for the one with a pressure campaign and mob backing, that has intertwined itself with American national political ambitions?
The emotional blackmail of this movement will probably be its undoing.
Re:Reddit shuts down subreddits including r/The_Donald and r...
by Can_Not on Wednesday July 01, 2020 @07:30AM
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Imagine feeling "emotionally blackmailed" into not supporting extrajudicial murder...
Re:Reddit shuts down subreddits including r/The_Donald and r...
by wooger on Wednesday July 01, 2020 @08:39AM
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It is easy to support that stance. Or even perhaps just stopping extrajudicial murder by police as a whole.
Go look at the official BLM list of goals - they are advocating to abolish the police, end capitalism, abolish the western nuclear family & several other far left, badly thought out, unsupportable concepts.
Worse still, the same campaign has spread to the UK, unfiltered and unchanged, despite the fact that we have almost zero people killed by police outside of terrorist attacks, our police don't carry guns, and due to our government's austerity policies, they're woefully underfunded.
/r/politics is how I imagine the "Two Minutes Hate" from 1984. A complete circle-jerk that has infested many of the main subreddits. /r/pics, /r/nextfuckinglevel, /r/publicfreakout are rather outposts of /r/politics these days. No wonder, when a small clique of politically aligned mods controls the major subreddits.
Even /r/askhistorians joined the blackout in support of 'Black Lives Matter'. What's neutral about that?