r/videos - Reddit mod gets laughed at on Fox News
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I thought there was an antiwork community here? Anyways I'm not sure where to put this. Just kinda sucks that the interview didn't go well and that people are shitting on this person and misgendering her for not being a white male factory worker or something.

/r/antiwork is kind of in shambles rn because the mods are trying keep the discourse from spinning out of control but a ton of people there are being transphobic and turning on the mods, and of course the mods are being accused of being authoritarian for trying to run the sub.

I hope the sub can bounce back, but it's a dark day in there for sure.

    • GnastyGnuts [he/him]
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      3 years ago

      It's what it always seems to come down to. You court the anti-tankie hysteria, and you get chewed up yourself.

    • meme_monster [none/use name]
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      3 years ago

      Couldn't they just submit a professional headshot and do audio only? I've seen plenty of audio only interviews on live tv. Is that just not done anymore?

    • Koi [any]
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      3 years ago

      while i probably would just pigpoopballs the interview… we should not be so quick to forget that a lot of the proletariat are working people watching fox news. people who deep down know they are exploited by their bosses, people who know something is wrong. we need to convince them. we do. no one wants to admit it but if we want working class solidarity and class war, those are our allies and we need to get through to them.

      this was an opportunity to do that and the worst possible outcome is happening because of this reddit mod.

    • viva_la_juche [they/them, any]
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      3 years ago

      one of the things people have to learn from all the rabid anti-tankie shit is either a. authority is good actually or b. at least have the baseline of what is authoritarian not be "any kind of decision that doesn't have full 100% approval of every isolated member of the org." This is a completely self defeating definition of authority.