Discussing Blackness on Reddit? Photograph Your Forearm First

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/10/08/us/reddit-race-black-people-twitter.html

by paul7986 • 7 years ago

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coolspot• 7 years ago

Sounds like discrimination by race. Try this with white instead of black and watch all hell breaking loose.

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lazyasciiart2• 7 years ago

"If you did this differently people would react differently".

mistermann• 7 years ago

Is racism wrong in principle, or only for certain skin colors?

zozbot2342• 7 years ago

It's certainly prejudicial. Perhaps it just goes to show that prejudice can be a two-way street.

guelo2• 7 years ago

It's the (mostly white) trolls that ruin these things but you blame the people trying to salvage something.

zozbot2342• 7 years ago

So, the only way to salvage something is to assume white people must be trolling, unless they write the right things about their 'white privilege' to the mod team? That's quite insane. This is the sort of stuff you get when people start treating "racism", "prejudice", etc. as pure thought-terminating cliches, with no real understanding of what these terms actually mean. We knew that this was going on somehow, but I don't think we've been aware of just how ingrained this has become.

luckylion• 7 years ago

I'm afraid a segregationist would argue the same way: it's those people who ruin our society, but you blame the people trying to salvage something.

posterboy• 7 years ago

Dunno what you talk about with "race", the problem with racism is race is a flawed concept. The arguments' premisses might be true nevertheless despite drawing invalid conclusions. But they might be one sided on both sides, while those with the real motives just don't participate in these discussions

peterwwillis• 7 years ago

There's a difference between "discrimination" as in "consideration based on a particular class or category, such as gender, race, sexual identity, etc", and "discrimination" as in "acting upon unreasonable preconceived judgments or convictions". The former is distinguishing differences, the latter is using them in a prejudicial way.

zaroth• 7 years ago

I actually thought the White/Black PeopleReddits were supposed to be some degree of comedy or trolling. At least that’s the impression I got from posts that would hit the front page.

The fact that historically that actually was the case but now it’s turned literally into Black People’s Reddit is I guess life imitating art?

I have no problem whatsoever with exclusive social clubs of any kind, as long as they are not promoting hate speech. The problem is they tend to devolve into “hating the outgroup” clubs.

You may find you end up further from your goal by becoming more insular.

alphabettsy• 7 years ago

Why was there was a perceived need for this and why does it exist in the first place?

This can’t be the only way to have a subreddit without racist posts or “trolling”?

notacoward• 7 years ago

This can’t be the only way to have a subreddit without racist posts or “trolling”?

OK, what's your suggestion?

Discussing Blackness on Reddit? Photograph Your Forearm First

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