First they came for FatPeopleHate, but I said nothing

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[–]AFutureConcern 64 insightful - 5 fun64 insightful - 4 fun65 insightful - 5 fun -  (11 children)

A great many people did say something. We warned that the first sub to be banned was the beginning of a slippery slope. That pretty soon, bans would be used for political purposes, to sway elections.

Pro-censorship advocates, in a move that would today be termed "gaslighting", ensured us that this was not a slippery slope, and that it was only egregious content that would be banned.

2016 was the year things accelerated. Free discussion online, a large part of it in response to Black Lives Matter, Critical Race Theory and Queer Theory, helped secure the election of Donald Trump and the exit of the UK from the European Union. This surge in nationalist sentiment, while modest, spooked the powers that be, and one of the largest propaganda campaigns in history, "The Resistance", set out to prevent it from ever happening again.

Activist groups pressured the media to run 24/7 "Orange Man Bad" content, attacking Donald Trump as a fascist, a Nazi, a sexist, a racist and all manner of other slurs. Disparate elements joined together in reaction to this, including r/The_Donald. This content defending Trump became labelled as so-called "Hate Speech" by activist shill accounts and bots that amplified this message, while at the same time Trump supporters were being accused of being Russian bots in a textbook case of Marx's maxim, "Accuse your enemy of what you are doing, as you are doing it to create confusion."

The cultural rot accelerated. Absurd claims from Critical Race Theory and Queer Theory, having incubated on Tumblr, and widely mocked at the time, now started to become gospel truth in a new religion. Any dissent from these ideas was now being routinely dismissed as "a rise in far-right radicalization". In reality, simply holding a centrist liberal view from circa 2005 was enough to get one branded a "far-right extremist". This widely-reported rise in "far-right extremism" was accepted unthinkingly by the politically-ignorant masses and they unwittingly helped enable further suppression on Reddit, supporting subreddit bans and then quarantines for major subreddits.

In 2020, with the majority of dissenting subs quarantined or suppressed, the second time Black Lives Matter was pushed, there was no memetic resistance to its spread. Systems were in place to downvote and suppress comments critical of the movement. Those claims from Critical Race Theory were now accepted by the visible majority of Reddit, and those claims state that "racism" is omnipresent in society, and that everyone must fight to defeat it.

Of course the only trace of "racism" left was a few humor and debate subs that had been quarantined or suppressed anyway. In the wake of Black Lives Matter, a quixotic Reddit decided to strike the killing blow to the enemy who was already defeated.

The story isn't over. This pattern repeats on scales large and small, through every community, as the Western world spirals into death.

[–]onemoredaydream 10 insightful - 1 fun10 insightful - 0 fun11 insightful - 1 fun -  (10 children)

Yeah, but Donald Trump actually is an idiot. I don't think it's some conspiracy to think so... it's just having 2 eyes and any sort of moral compass.

[–]AFutureConcern 9 insightful - 2 fun9 insightful - 1 fun10 insightful - 2 fun -  (9 children)

His stupidity actually made things worse because it meant people could criticize him on the grounds that he's an idiot, where their real reason was that they're communists and they must purge any right-wing thought. It got a lot of centrists/center-right on board with joining "The Resistance" and ushering in leftist censorship.

[–]quickbeam 5 insightful - 3 fun5 insightful - 2 fun6 insightful - 3 fun -  (7 children)

There are almost 0 actual communists in any position of power anywhere in the United States. The fact that you think there are any communists in positions of power in the States is pretty funny though, I'll give you that. U.S. Communists would actually very much understand why banning speech is bad, if anyone would, since historically it was Communists who were blacklisted in the 50's in our country. Even if they had only attended a meeting or two at a time when that was quite common.

[–]AFutureConcern 7 insightful - 3 fun7 insightful - 2 fun8 insightful - 3 fun -  (1 child)

There are almost 0 actual communists in any position of power anywhere in the United States. The fact that you think there are any communists in positions of power in the States is pretty funny though, I'll give you that.

There are absolutely many neo-Marxists in positions of power. They form the HR and PR departments of major corporations, they are the editors of newspapers, they are the directors of movies and TV shows. They are the leaders of Black Lives Matter, which has been praised by governments and corporations worldwide. They have internalized totally a religion of equality in which different identity groups are viewed as "oppressor" and "oppressed" (in contrast to traditional materialist Marxism in which class is the sole consideration). By constructing these ideas, they invoke an inverse force against those designated as "oppressors". Class is simply lower down their list.

I sympathize to some extent with traditional Marxists who feel that this craziness has really taken things off course, but this is yet another case of "this isn't real communism" when this is literally how communism has gone every time. Purges of dissidents, purges of those who initially helped to tear down the old system, tearing down of monuments, destruction of culture, and concentration of power in a tiny elite while average middle-class people have their quality of life decimated. All we're missing is the famine.

U.S. Communists would actually very much understand why banning speech is bad, if anyone would, since historically it was Communists who were blacklisted in the 50's in our country. Even if they had only attended a meeting or two at a time when that was quite common.

They understand why banning speech is bad for those who are banned. It's become quite clear over recent years that censorship works and all of those centrist copes that "censorship will drive it underground and make it worse" just simply weren't true. They're quite happy to censor others to protect their power as we can see today.

[–][deleted] 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

trotsky probably would recognize the craziness has taken things of course, he basically got cancelled and stalin said he wasn't woke enough.

[–]King_Brutus 5 insightful - 2 fun5 insightful - 1 fun6 insightful - 2 fun -  (3 children)

0 actual communists in any position of power

yet.

Also, marxists that run Reddit clearly don't care about freedom of speech as is evident by the constant banwaves and demonizing of people they consider "the majority".

[–]Mouldy_Badger 2 insightful - 2 fun2 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 2 fun -  (2 children)

dude, the guys who run reddit have no inclination to spread their money to the masses. They are, at best, uncle Stalin.

[–]King_Brutus 2 insightful - 3 fun2 insightful - 2 fun3 insightful - 3 fun -  (1 child)

Still sounds like every communist ever.

[–]Mouldy_Badger 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Trotsky would like a word with you but he but got a bit murdered. Nothing to see here.

[–]Lastrevio 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

They were talking about voters.

[–][deleted] 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

this is done on purpose, long time democrat and friend of the clintons. Get in there when Hillary loses on purpose by not campaigining in the rust belt. Act like a fool for two terms and get the sjws riled up into a tizzy while having all the same policies as Obama.