It's a bad sign for things to come. As platforms become more and more openly fascistic, it's only a matter of time before they start actively promoting Nazi accounts rather than just passively protecting them. People are too addicted and reliant on social media to switch to other platforms, and even if they did there would probably be a massive amount of suppression put on those other platforms. We're going to have to deal with the consequences of all major media openly pushing for our governments to implement outright fascism. How are we supposed to deal with that when most of us primarily operate on these platforms?? We can't survive on the good grace of those who actively want us dead forever, and the very same fascists are monopolizing alternative forms of media.
Trump barely won and only because of a technicality with only marginal media support. Could you imagine how utterly fucked we would be if every one of these platforms just all at once decided to gaslight the public and put their support behind an actually dangerous fascist? People already forget that less than 100 years ago the concept of fascism was popular in the States, and it's getting dangerously close to making a comeback.
I don't mean to be a doomer but holy shit when you consider all the stuff that's going down, things are looking bad.
I think it's more a platform acting in a corporate don't say anything that could plausibly offend advertisers way
Literally nobody is offended by 'cracker' it was little more than pointlessly appeasing white supremacy.
Bro capitalists literally liquidated the Aunt Jemima and Uncle Ben's brand icons with damn near zero prompting trying to capitalize on the largest market share shifting towards progressive politics. Businesses do dumb shit all the time.
occam's razor applies even to this kind of stuff, with a bunch of pencil neck suits following the logical conclusion of liberal anti-racism
Yes no one is offended by cracker but it's still not corporate friendly, corporations don't understand what's bad for example when Netflix banned that episode of the golden girls because of mud masks I could easily see a corporation deciding cracker is a substitute for the N-word. I don't think this is fascist as for one I don't think even fascists are offended by the term cracker
as an asside I did know someone who made people uncomfortable when he said cracker as he only used it as an obvious substitute for the N-word e.g. "What up my crackers"
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Look I've changed a lot since middle school.