I do not like it when I am forced to acknowledge oppression or my own privilege
-All of reddit
Also saying "transgenders" feels pretty :yikes: to me
If you ask me to even for one moment just acknowledge that other people's lives may be substantially different than mine I swear to god I will drive my truck through a crowd :frothingfash:
When I step back I genuinely can't understand how the concept of privilege survived even a second of discourse. But that's not how all this works, is it?
I hate being called a cis-woman. Why can't I just be a woman.
Okay, so there's this trans-woman...
Like half the comments are just "wow I would hate it if someone used cis as my pronouns"
I was actually surprised to see some pushback on those though
People equating calling cis-women cis with not respecting a trans person pronouns
Brought to you by the people who think 'cracker' is a slur on par with the n-bomb
Reddit is just going to be 4chan. The left...left or got banned. The right has been obsessed with having a dominant cultural presence there for years. They've worked on taking over subs and slowly pushing the site to the right. At the end of the day the people who are going to spend the most time online and post the most about their grievances are the right. They were able to turn youtube's algorithm into an alt-right pipeline for the same reason. Liberals aren't equipped nor have the inclination to properly get rid of them. They're not going to go away, only ratchet the entire site to the right. In 5 years reddit will actually be like stormfront. Spotify will be the home of Rogan, Peterson, and whoever else. Youtube will just be Prager U.
Social media is going to the right and that's why it's important we let them while building actual in-person networks and influence. It's the perfect time to trap the fuckers online and let them toil away for decades thinking that posting is how power works. But if we choose to remain very online as well and don't do anything to build a real social presence in the physical world, they will win both.
At the end of the day the people who are going to spend the most time online and post the most about their grievances are the right. They were able to turn youtube’s algorithm into an alt-right pipeline for the same reason.
The right taking over yt is at least partially due to their largest channels all being vocally aligned with corporate interests and receiving tons of funding in return. Shapiro, Crowder, PragerU, Peterson and so on and so on, they're all on the payroll of Texas oil money as they're vocal climate change deniers (or, in Kermit's case, climate deniers). The fash turn of :reddit-logo: is likewise propagated by corporate donors and federal agitprop squads. r/neoliberal is a PPI pet project, the rampant sinophobia is heavily astroturfed etc., reddit's head of policy has CIA links etc. etc.
The fact that there's a bunch of terminally online fash weirdos as well doesn't make these takeovers organic. Successful PR always utilizes people like that as multipliers, but no rightwing movement succeeds on its own accord. This has always been a result of the ruling class propping the fascists up either deliberately or neglectfully.
Definitely agreed that we need to be building in-person networks, but I don’t care for the idea that the right is winning because they’re just more online or that we should surrender that space as a result. Right wingers dominate social media because they have the support of capital up to the point where they get too much public backlash for recruiting children to wear the iron cross or whatever the fuck. We’ve seen it a many times. Left wing sub gets popular on Reddit. Admins coup the mods or manufacture a splitting event. Right wing “moderate” alternatives are promoted. Given a true free market of attention, the left would be doing fine online. But it’s not a free market. It’s an automated propaganda machine that we’re expected to exist within.
I think the ideal would be to tie the physical organizing in with a new form of decentralized social media. Allow cells to form naturally while sharing information. A propaganda machine not controlled by capital.
The fact that all of social media ventures are, well, capitalist ventures run by libertarians techbros with delusion of grandeur, it is no surprise that they would be biased against leftist thoughts and supports right wing thoughts in reaction, even if only tacitly.
The right has been obsessed with having a dominant cultural presence there for years.
Is it even right wing? Or, at least, more right wing than it was during Ron Paul mania or the The_Donald heyday?
It just feels more and more like a propagandized monoculture. Just boilerplate American domestic mainstream dogma.
Like, what is currently being headlined that would be to the right of a Bill Clinton democrat from the 90s?
You know it's a good website when the word "true" consistently means "fascist"
Yeah I dont like it when cis people call me a removed removed but here we are.
"I claim to be an expert in biology, but I don't understand why the opposite of trans is cis!"
- Hogs.
"People should only allowed to refer to me using terms that I choose for myself!"
why are you using that platform? it’s literally state department propaganda and people who regurgitate it with no critical thought
I'm too afraid to ask this question that's exactly what :reddit-logo: asks every single fucking second over and over again
Also, assuming that reddit is a propaganda arm of liberal institutions, I have to wonder why it's so rabidly transphobic. I mean, companies and the establishment love to say that they support LGBTQ folks, but we all know that it's just surface-level garbage, so... why doesn't this same trend of surface-level discourse extend to the most basic platform? Why must they let this sort of vile content bubble up to the surface?
I have this notion that the main thing here is that they're trying to figure out what is more useful to liberal interests: is the empty advocacy of trans rights more useful to liberals as a way to pretend to be virtuous and on the right side of history, or is it more useful to keep transphobic discourse as a tool, a convenient way to galvanize shitty people into ignoring what is truly wrong in society, as a distraction?
How can we have turbo chuds who are vehemently transphobic and at the same also have that thing that was posted here recently, that REI anti-union podcast where they start off with their pronouns and acknowledging that they're on stolen Native land? Both of them ultimately serve the same interests, and yet are on a surface level completely different.
I don't know, I just feel like modern liberals can't make up their minds if they'd rather maintain a façade of acceptance or just use transphobia and other garbage discourse as a way to make people fall in line, so they try to have it both ways and claim that it's "freedom of speech". Sorry if I'm not making sense or if I'm being a dumbass, I'm just trying to understand what's going on with ideology. It's hard to wrap my head around so much discourse.
Redditors of Reddit, how do you feel about this thing none of us have shut up about for six months and all have the exact same opinion on?
i think corporate "trans rights" signalling is even more surface level than other kinds of corporate wokeness because while e.g. corporate antiracism seeks to capture the spending power of nonwhite consumers, trans people aren't a large enough demographic to be a worthwhile market by themselves, so the marketing effort is actually directed at liberal allies who might feel a bleeding heart affinity for trans people, but don't have much of an idea of what trans liberation would mean.
It's meant to appeal to that type of cis person that claims they really care about trans people and will put pronouns in their bio, but would never actually date a trans person.
True, and besides that, from a labor perspective, I also feel like people who are already oppressed on a daily basis are easier to exploit.
Why doesn’t the world care about what’s happening to the Uyghurs in China?
They obviously do since theres one of these posts on here everyday.
Fifty thousand upvotes, twenty seven awards, front page for a week
"Uh... unpopular opinion but why don't more people uncritically ingest memos from the US state department?"
