• ToastedPlanet@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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        1 year ago

        Ok, so it looks like stormfront is a website that promotes white pride. It sounds like there might have been a subreddit at some point based on that stormfront image.

        https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Stormfront

        And /r/196 is a leftist meme posting subreddit that is trans friendly.

        https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=r%2F196

        I’m using non-reddit links because I don’t want to direct traffic to reddit.

        Can you help me find a source that shows, stormfront, a white pride website, influenced the 196 rule please? This seems like an important point to learn more about. I’ve been googling, but I haven’t found any connection yet.

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          1 year ago

          I think stormfront the user, Stormfront the right wing website, and Stormfront the Apple store are all 3 seperate entities.

          I think you got them mixed up. I hope you mixed them up and they aren’t somehow connected anyway.

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            1 year ago

            I honestly know very little about Stormfront, beyond what I’ve googled. I don’t support white pride groups. I have seen people referencing it on Lemmy though.

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                1 year ago

                I won’t contest that racism and bigotry existed on reddit. It definitely did. I also experienced and saw kindness and acceptance. Saying Reddit in its entirety is racist is really no different that saying everyone is racist. And not everyone and not everyone on reddit is racist.

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                    1 year ago

                    It goes without saying all lives matter. It needs to be said that Black Lives Matter. I am aware racism exists on reddit. I’d love to see a survey or study that indicates a majority of people are racist on reddit.

                    I’m not convinced that calling reddit predominantly racist is based on actual sympathy for people of color. There is a competing reason I can think of why someone would want to discredit reddit however. They tended to moderate against authoritarian communists, people who are notorious for their support of governments that committed genocides against minorities.

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                    1 year ago

                    They said elsewhere that they’re autistic. The need to be exact and truthful when people generalize something like a community is something i identify with. Its why I dont really love the stormfront joke myself, just go along with it for community peace. This person to me is clearly well intentioned and is an example of the dunk impulse going too far because I think they’re trying to do right.

                    ETA: Actually I got them mixed up with another user they never said they were autistic. But I still think they are well intentioned.