Eh, while it would be nice for the people who go on r/coontown to be suddenly kidnapped by aliens and have their neurotoxin tolerance tested, I don't really see why their existence on reddit would reduce my enjoyment of r/writing and r/tf2. I mean, it's not like r/coontown can colonize the subreddits that I follow. Right?
Right?
Mmm, I don't know, honestly,
why I'm taking this so badly when I have literally never been on Reddit apart from gametales and have never had the slightest semblance of an idea of what Reddit has actually been going through.
Perhaps it could be my disagreements with Reddit basically funding Coontown by way of removing ad revenue? But I didn't have those sentiments before I read someone pointing it out, do I object to it because of my own moral compass or because I believe enough people I think are like me believe in that being a really bad thing?
Perhaps it could be the idea of congratulating killing coloured people? Perhaps it could be (like one or two people have said) the fact that impressionable people without much of a view of the outside world could be radicalised, but does that betray my own idea of humanity and my thoughts of standing as a humanist in the world by thinking that all some (through no fault of their own) ignorant people could be so easily swayed?
Or perhaps (As one poster so eloquently put it) it could simply be the idea that people are aversely affected by what they see, and are afraid of normal people they don't know about because they could be judging them like animals because of their skin colour, but at the same time, it is only a vocal minority.
Yet they are a vocal minority with a dangerous ideal, some posters, while paranoid, do have a point about the next shooting, but again, does that betray my idea of standing as a humanist, thinking humans can be so easily convinced into removing all empathy for one skin colour without having been born sociopaths?
Perhaps I'm rubbing up against the people who speak about free speech, I understand the driving concept behind it but the idea of letting these people go unabated because of an ideal doesn't seem right to me, should people be allowed to speak about privileges without being part of the ethnicity who're receiving the near constant hate and degradation?
I wonder if most of the trouble being stirred up is coming from the hypocrisy in the rules and by extension how most people seem to think that the maker of the big rules post is simply placing these rules down to keep as many people as possible or if this was always there, and this provided a good way to let loose those lingering problems.
See kids, this is why it's so hard to take the high road when talking about ethics and the like.
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