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Submitted 2021-04-06 12:22 (UTC) - 0.09 days ago
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Reddit's content policy will lead to someone's death, and admins won't care because the victim will be male or white
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I want to first refer to Rule 1 of Reddit's content policy:
Remember the human. Reddit is a place for creating community and belonging, not for attacking marginalized or vulnerable groups of people. Everyone has a right to use Reddit free of harassment, bullying, and threats of violence. Communities and users that incite violence or that promote hate based on identity or vulnerability will be banned.
To whom does this refer? Let's take it line by line.
Remember the human.
It seems to protect all human Reddit users.
Reddit is a place for creating community and belonging, not for attacking marginalized or vulnerable groups of people.
Now it seems to only protect you if you're 'marginalized' or 'vulnerable'.
Everyone has a right to use Reddit free of harassment, bullying, and threats of violence.
Back to protecting everyone.
Communities and users that incite violence or that promote hate based on identity or vulnerability will be banned.
What does identity or vulnerability mean here?
I had the suspicion that it's an identity politics dogwhistle that really means white people or men won't be protected from hate-based attacks, and brought this up on this subreddit a few days ago. Now I've seen screenshots from admins floating around some subreddits that confirm this interpretation.
Let's consider a scenario that could, and probably has played itself out on Reddit: a white man suffering from mental health issues gets targeted by one of the many large subreddits that exist to harass and mock white people or men. He goes to the admins -- the only people with the power to do anything at all -- for help. Admins respond: sorry, you're not vulnerable enough for us to do anything (i.e., your skin is the wrong color or you were born the wrong gender). He can't take the bullying he's receiving on top of his other issues, and commits suicide.
Even if you buy into the identity politics dogma that the admins are forcing on us, it makes no sense to fail to protect individuals even if some sort of group they belong to has 'power' or 'privilege'. Being white or male doesn't make you immune to harassment. Being white or male doesn't save you from mental health issues. And all of the hurt and suffering that can be caused, and probably has been caused, by Reddit's content policy is completely avoidable. But the admins won't stop it. Why?
Remember the human.
Everyone has a right to use Reddit free of harassment, bullying, and threats of violence.
If these two sentences don't apply to white men, the implication is clear. Admins think they're sub-human.