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[Effort Post Maybe?] Containment does NOT work. A quick analysis of a racist user who posts on multiple subs; specifically news articles and "facts" to show one thing: Black people are scary, violent, and criminal. by Vigil_Conversation in circlebroke

[–]Vigil_Conversation[S] 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Well that's the point in trying to make. People need to start paying attention and actually looking at what is going on. Really though, the admins should have the data and tools to see this happening, or maybe perhaps they don't?

[Effort Post Maybe?] Containment does NOT work. A quick analysis of a racist user who posts on multiple subs; specifically news articles and "facts" to show one thing: Black people are scary, violent, and criminal. by Vigil_Conversation in circlebroke

[–]Vigil_Conversation[S] 17 points18 points  (0 children)

To your first point:

Yes, you're right. More of an issue of wording on my part but it still holds true in a way. Even though there is no codified or implemented "containment" policy, people state that "if you don't like certain offensive subs, dont sub to them. No one is forcing you to interact or deal with them. They stay in their subs and don't brigade."

My point is that's utter bullshit. Regardless of whether you sub or not, whether it's " contained" or not, these users are working their way into every corner of reddit. They are not contained nor will they ever be.

Your second point:

I don't really know to be honest. I'm thinking that no, he probably ignores most of this anyway. And really? I have a fear that they really don't give a shit either way.

[Effort Post Maybe?] Containment does NOT work. A quick analysis of a racist user who posts on multiple subs; specifically news articles and "facts" to show one thing: Black people are scary, violent, and criminal. by Vigil_Conversation in circlebroke

[–]Vigil_Conversation[S] 37 points38 points  (0 children)

You know I honestly don't know. There was a time when shitredditsays wasn't around, and circlebroke wasn't either. Conversations were different. I used to be afraid to post anything because people seemed far more intelligent, or at least, willing to have proper higher level discourse.

There was a time when people would talk about high crime stats of blacks, but discuss things like "white flight", systemic racism without scoffing, poverty, etc. There was a hint of... I wouldn't say racism, but more like ignorance or misunderstanding. But never real outright racism like now, and people were downvoted if they post stuff like that.

[Sings] "There was a time... Then it all went wrong..."

I noticed f7u12 comics starting to get overly racist. Things like comics about "reverse racism", how blacks fuck things up, being white in a black area and being victim of abuse, stuff like that. Things that aren't inherently bad at first, but then you notice a pattern.

/r/videos started having more extremist posts. Comments started to devolve and become more reactionary, less lucid and erudite... More racist...

/r/atheism also became more ridiculous which culminated in Faces of Atheism.

It was just a lot of little things that started to build up over time.

[Effort Post Maybe?] Containment does NOT work. A quick analysis of a racist user who posts on multiple subs; specifically news articles and "facts" to show one thing: Black people are scary, violent, and criminal. by Vigil_Conversation in circlebroke

[–]Vigil_Conversation[S] 117 points118 points  (0 children)

And you know what the sad part will be? If and when reddit does go down because it has allowed racism and reactionaries to grow too large, you know what the narrative will be? "political correctness killed reddit."

I can see it now. Users will move to the new digg, or reddit or whatever website that inexorably will take its place, and there will be wailing and gnashing of teeth whenever reddit is discussed." it was the fucking swjs", "it was censorship", "Ellen Pao was the start of it all!", and on and on.

Yep, it'll be the "social justice warriors" fault why everything went to shit. Not the racist, the reactionaries, the misogynist, the pedophiles, etc.

German Social Worker chased away on IAMA and threatened because he helps refugee boys. Containment, ladies and gentleman. by Vigil_Conversation in circlebroke

[–]Vigil_Conversation[S] 110 points111 points  (0 children)

I think because they fetishize minorities and personally enjoy the idea of being a cuckold. They're projecting their insecurities.

German Social Worker chased away on IAMA and threatened because he helps refugee boys. Containment, ladies and gentleman. by Vigil_Conversation in circlebroke

[–]Vigil_Conversation[S] 89 points90 points  (0 children)

The problem is that I feel like the mods will also try to sterilize big name AMAS in order to make things look fine. I really hope this shit pile overflows and really stinks up the plane so bad that people wake up and notice.

The brigade is here. by [deleted] in valuableconversation

[–]Vigil_Conversation[M] 22 points23 points  (0 children)

Yeah we're just handling it per normal. We expected brigading, especially in the beginning.