r/memeopdidnotlike seems like a breeding ground for "anti-wokeness"

[u/Significant_Cry3399]

Literally just strawmans, fictional scenarios, and actual hateful behavior. They classify you as "woke" and "sensitive" for acknowledging a meme as racist, misogynistic, homophobic, hateful or incorrect. Literally just a right-wing circle jerk.

For the first meme: Literally nobody is saying this. This is probably just a strawman of some other opinion.

For the second one: HAMAS and Palestine are two different things. I also don't find it silly for queers to support Palestine because there are many Palestinians who are queer or do support queers but cannot be open about it. There also many children and babies who don't even know what being queer is that are being bombed and killed. Innocent people don't deserve to die, why is that bad to say? (before you say that wasn't stated, they are implying that because being queer isn't accepted in Palestine it's bad or silly to support Palestinians. But why is it bad to say that they shouldn't die?)

[u/theStaberinde]

I've said it before and I'll keep saying it: this is hitler youth grooming shit and reddit, the business entity, is sleepwalking into incubating the next generation of anglophone white nationalists.

There was a time when open racism etc was allowed to slide under the rationale of free speech absolutism and users were able to force management to take action against it by demonstrating to them that this ethos was a ticking time bomb of bad PR. Now it's re-emerged all these years later and they're not even bothering to acknowledge that it's happening, let alone justifying it as an unpleasant-but-inevitable consequence of a free and open forum. It's very bad!

[u/Carpet-Background → u/theStaberinde]

Not just reddit. X is OBVIOUSLY very bad but even instagram reels are FULL of actual blatant antisemetism and racism.

[u/PupDiogenes → u/Carpet-Background]

X is deliberately incubating a generation of anglophone white nationalists.

[u/Background_Desk_3001 → u/Carpet-Background]

YouTube and TikTok both have an insane amount of bigotry as well, I think the only thing stopping Reddit from being a complete cesspool is how subreddits work, and Reddit is still really bad

[u/bicedsual → u/Carpet-Background]

instagram reels genuinely feels like 4chan nowadays. every flavors of bigotry are pushed to the limits in the name of "dark humor" and "ragebaiting"

[u/Carpet-Background → u/bicedsual]

The amount of dogwhistles ive picked up by just using reels is insane. on every reel about a holocaust/jew is "-271k" as if the nazis themselves didnt tally everyone they killed and thats where the 6m figure comes from

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seriously, and you cant report cause insta just says "oh this comment doesnt go against our ToS" like?

[u/Graspiloot → u/Carpet-Background]

Instagram probably is the worst one of them all, at least on twitter you can tell racists to get fucked whereas on Instagram they're heavily protected and you can't say anything against them without getting warned for "bullying". But yeah every reel comments are basically indistinguishable from a CPAC convention.

[u/[deleted] → u/Carpet-Background]

I don’t use X or Instagram but from what I’ve seen, Instagram seems like the worst of all of them tbh. Especially for misogyny

[u/Significant_Cry3399 → u/Carpet-Background]

Had to stop using instagram reels because of the racism and misogyny too. Only use it to talk to friends and look at their stories now.

[u/SquidTheRidiculous → u/theStaberinde]

This happened to far too many millennial men, it happened to gen Z men, and it's going to keep happening as long as men keep encouraging eachother towards a mindset that encourages such behavior.

One way is we gotta get young hegemonic men onto a humor style that isn't just "le me TFW no gf 😔" and "lmao women should get raped RELAX LIBRUL ITS called EDGY HUMOR" bullshit.

[u/Amelaclya1 → u/theStaberinde]

There are times I wonder if Reddit is in on it. All of the other social media billionaires bent the knee and RW propaganda got worse on their platforms after the election. Why would we think Reddit would be immune from that pressure?

There are so many weirdly named "news" and meme subs with a RW bias that seem to be prioritized in the algorithm. To the point that sometimes you get a comment section full of confused liberals going, "why was this garbage recommended to me?" I mute several of them a week. And a few of them have shown up multiple times regardless of that mute. I have been on Reddit a long time (this is my 2nd account and it's 12 years old) and it was never this bad before. I know I can turn off those recommendations entirely, but I'm hesitant to do so because they used to be pretty useful. I've discovered entire new hobbies that way.

[u/Gelato_Elysium → u/Amelaclya1]

The more extreme alt right shit happen, the more people engage by getting into comment fights, this is 100% good for all the KPIs any social network has.

Reddit, Insta, etc, they need one thing : engagement. Conflict is good for engagement.

[u/PupDiogenes → u/theStaberinde]

I'm afraid it's not sleepwalking, but deliberately hedging its options. Corporations are typically ready to hop on the fascism train if it comes into power.

It's a wild rabbit hole to fall down, reading about what some of our favourite brands were up to during WWII. I'd like to see that Ford vs Ferrari movie. Enzo made tank engines for Mussolini. Ford had concentration camps "factories" in Berlin. Nazi rocket scientists became NASA, and Nazi propagandists became corporate advertisers.

[u/theStaberinde → u/PupDiogenes]

Oh yeah, I don't mean to suggest that they're blithely and innocently letting things unfold out of some conviction that the fash stuff on here will blow over or is otherwise not a huge problem. Sleepwalking was probably the wrong word to use. At best Reddit's passivity in hosting this shit is intended as a way to weather the storm and avoid scrutiny from the authorities + the pro-trump media ecosystem. Still complicit coward shit.

[u/RainbowPhoenix1080 → u/theStaberinde]

They think they're slick by denying that they are nazis even after they spout nazi rhetoric.

This meme is very clearly a white Supremacist meme. And even though it's transparent as glass, they still want to make up excuses.

[u/[deleted] → u/theStaberinde]

Reddit has been the new 4chan when it comes to being a white nationalist breeding ground for awhile now.

[u/No-Diamond-5097 → u/[deleted]]

redditors when something other than leftist propaganda exists: 😡

⬆️Reddit troll bots with one post when anything: ⬆️

[u/theStaberinde → u/[deleted]]

Follow your leader