Today on reddit I posted 3 comments on a post on the front page. They were deleted by mods, and to verify my account, I have to send them a picture of my forearm showing my skin color. If my skin is not dark enough, I don't get approved.

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Subs shutting down others for no other reason than that they are different is bullshit. I think it'd be reasonable to kick someone out who tries to join a group about cats but starts talking about dogs. I think it's reasonable to kick trolls out, after a good amount of post history was scrutinized to support that. And any threats of violence or "go die" should definitely be banned. Maybe BPT has the notion that if they want a group only for black people, then they should have that. But that notion has to go all ways and it just doesn't, people's eyebrows raise.

Other than that...yeah. No one wants to actually argue with people anymore. No one wants a different perspective or opinion. If I joined a group about cats and struck up some arguments about cats, I'd probably get screamed at and shut down. Because a group about cats is never to be questioned. People's inability to stand by their beliefs and concede to a valid argument to that belief is really quite scary. It's not that I'm attacking those beliefs. You can have yours and I can have mine. The word of the day is concessions.