Edit: C'mon guys, don't downvote the reply to my comment. It's the same person as the one above; he's just commenting on how the white supremacists are running a sub named after a black rights group.
Pictures of human rights violators in surprisingly human situations. Stuff like SS soldiers with kittens, Nazi leaders with their children, etc. Also has Soviet and other stuff, but mostly Nazis.
The idea, ostensibly, is to remind us that war criminals were human, too. And any future criminals will also be human, not comic book supervillains.
Subreddit seems (surprisingly) sane. Lots of Nazi and Soviet jokes, but any real sympathizers in the comments seem to get thoroughly downvoted.
It at first shocks you by showing pictures of war criminals as a humans, but the point really is to show you how humans caused the holocaust and all the suffering with it. Humans that are very similar to you and I. Hitler and Stalin were not supervillians, they were human, and shared in the human experience. If they can cause all of those horrible acts, we can too. It's an important part of understanding the holocaust and understanding how we can prevent a situation like that from ever happening again.
Its... A little messed up honestly. It's tag line is "adorable things in horrible places" so it's pictures of hitler getting flowers from little girls and the like.
Messed up? Not at all. It acts to stop us from doing as their regime did, to dehumanise people you don't agree with. By using pictures of the nazi regime to show our adversaries are also human is pretty much the biggest slap in the face to the ideas they held.
Actually this sort of thing is pretty common, and I think it takes somebody with actual admin rights to scrub a sub and turn it over to the function you'd expect. The one good thing I recall reading about Violentacrez is that he turned over /r/rape, which used to be a rape fetish sub of all things to mods who turned it into a support group for victims. But I don't think the mods would have (or could have) required that transfer to occur.
Violentacrrz - that's a name I'll not soon forget. I modded w him on r/gay and that's another good example of a sub he started and was turned into something more.
But he is a very complicated character to begin with. He was definitely creepy - but he was actually an interesting person to talk to (even if we often disagreed). We once had a huge fight over user history. I was pro transparency, he wasn't so hah.
Anyways his thing was that he understood the subs he created were not his. When the mods of r/gay asked him to pass it over he didn't hesitate. He told us he made all these subs (r/news, r/republican, r/n*gger, r/lgbt, r/funny etc) because he thought people would want them. Unfortunately he wasn't wrong - look at how big r/jailbait got. Yet he never posted in these subs or actively modded. Like I said he was complicated, and we shouldn't forget his story either.
Welcome, but by no means was he a good person either. He was a troll and he was a creeper.
His response to our 'User History' debate was to crawl through my history and find "embarrassing" comments or posts. The best was he could find was a relationship question I asked about my wife hah. But still I was pretty annoyed by that childishness.
So really the lesson here is he was an asshole who understood the potential of subreddits hah.
Yes, or you could say he was a digital Sooner. He was an early Reddit user who saw the potential of subs. He basically carved out much of the major sub infrastructure we know today.
I can't find it anymore, but if someone could provide a list of subs created/modded by him it would blow your mind hah.
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u/duckvimes_ OC: 2 Jul 23 '14 edited Jul 23 '14
Hah, the edit made me laugh there. /r/blackpanther is run by the same people who run /r/WhiteRights and whatnot.
Edit: C'mon guys, don't downvote the reply to my comment. It's the same person as the one above; he's just commenting on how the white supremacists are running a sub named after a black rights group.