You’re not dumb, it’s political compass memes AKA the sub where openly calling yourself a fascist is based and where self proclaimed “anarcho communists” talk about how trump is actually a working class hero and that trans people are the problem. If anything deserves to be nuked, it’s that
“According to Emma Goldmans treatise on the states monopolization of violence I uh.. uhm.. you know.. uh…….. so trans people” is basically the vibe of the “anarchists” there
Well nobody on that sub is actually an anarcho communist. It’s either feds or right wingers posing. They know basics like kropotkin and Bakunin but they don’t really understand it which says to me they’re just bad actors. I’m not even an anarchist and I’ve probably read more anarchist theory than the “anarchists” on that sub
I'm no Reddit strategist, but surely it's best just to let them sit there instead of being forced to leave and infecting our 'good' subreddits?
41
u/MekraniLiterally shaking and crying and shitting and cumming rn1d agoedited 1d ago
Nah, that never worked and deplatforming has always been the most effective means.
By letting them keep their little shithead corner on a popular website, you allow them a space to proudly proclaim their shitheadedness, and grow by finding more shitheads and converting people already on the platform into shitheads.
Every time you nuke a group like that you scatter them, with only a chunk being able to organize into a new, now smaller group, ones that try to infect normal spaces usually get immediately put in their place by more well adjusted people already there, and some will leave the website altogether and go to more obscure ones where they'll have harder time recruiting.
Absolutely not. It provides them an echo chamber to amplify and embolden intolerant views that normal civilized society would shut down, like blatant racism, sexism, homophobia.
Like say a 14-year-old stumbles upon a sub supposedly for gaming memes and it’s just a circlejerk of dudes shitting on women in video games that don’t adhere to their conventional beauty standards. The teen will just see everyone in the sub cheering on the misogyny, and anyone speaking out for women will be shut down, thus promoting intolerance. If the same shit were posted elsewhere it would rightfully be shut down for being wildly misogynistic, and the teen would see that’s not okay.
That’s basically what happened with 4chan. The ironic edgelord teenagers left when they realized other people were being serious, and it festered from there.
849
u/TheLoneSlimShady KRSCH is perfect video game 1d ago
A*m*n*o*d subreddit would be long gone if that were true