How SRS is feeling right now : gifs

The fact is Reddit touts itself as a special place where ideas can mingle and the best of the best floats to the top. Yet when racism, misogyny, stereotypes and cruel jokes about the disabled, shit that is fundamentally WRONG with our SOCIETY runs rampant (on this place that considers itself fucking egalitarian?) people like you come along and say "Deal with it."

It's a crock of shit. What are you upholding with a comment like that other than shit? Other peoples "right" to act like assholes? Thanks for teaching me that important lesson. Tell me more about the cold hard world. First, though, let me tell you something. If someone thinks it's worth their time to stand up for any of the kind of shit that, for instance, SRS would argue against, they might want to reevaluate how they spend their time

Also, I'm on mad pain meds right now, sorry for how hard this probably is to read. And nothing personal meant toward you, sir.

Edit: Said that at the end but realized it did get a little personal. Rephrasing to make it less attack-y. Apologies.

[–]Flyingbuffaloman 9 points10 points11 points 4 months ago

"Reddit" is not one entity. It can't consider itself egalitarian or special. Sure, some people might circlejerk about how kind and equal the people on the site are, but I don't think they represent the majority. Reddit is just like any other site on the internet, with about the same douche: nice ratio. Of course there are going to be douchebags on the site, with 10 million accounts there are going to be some jerks. It seems pointless to have a subreddit where people just pick out shitty things that people say. It would be similiar to going through your life and writing down every time someone was mean. It's utterly pointless and it doesn't change anything. I'm not defending anyone who acts like an ass on reddit, I'm just saying that having a subreddit where people whine about all the bad things that are said is pointless.

[–]supercooleo -3 points-2 points-1 points 4 months ago

I feel like if someone did that to me as you say I'd be a lot more inclined to be nice. If I thought someone was watching, as I'm sure most people agree, I'd act a lot better in general. SRS holds a candle to the dark and stinky nether regions of Reddit, I don't see that as pointless. People see the things that get posted there and think "Wow, that's terrible," and sometimes start to evaluate themselves and become not-jerks. That's what happened to me.

Simply laying down and accepting there will be jerks everywhere is a choice, but one that a lot of people don't want to make. There's a lot of crap in the world, you raise a good point, but this boils down to whether or not you want to take a stand against it and make the world better. We can all just kick back and be in on the jokes and let all the shitposts slide as so many people do, or maybe sometimes call them out, and say it's not okay. That's how popular ideas change, and Reddit is the perfect medium for that kind of change.

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[–]supercooleo -1 points0 points1 point 4 months ago

Well, it's a circlejerk, allowing for some modicum of detachment when dealing with the routinely awful subject matter. Yet it's also kind of a haven. It can get really depressing for some people, say if they have experience with rape or mental disability, to constantly be confronted with Redditor's cavalierness and inexcusable attitudes toward the subject. They go to SRS to be able to try and laugh at it all and feel like they're not the only ones who don't think it's funny, y'know?

SRS certainly has had some affect on Reddit's attitudes, though, judging by (even in this thread) how absolutely threatened some people seem to feel by it. When something shitty does get posted, someone usually warns that "SRS IS GONNA GET YA!" That shows to me that it's made people more conscious, at least, even if they're taking it the wrong direction.

Also, downvotes and upvotes are just reversed! It still works afaik.

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[–]Russbear -4 points-3 points-2 points 4 months ago

As far as I can tell they are more about being the devil's advocate to the hivemind that is reddit. When someone posts a very eloquent argument for something like "pedophiles aren't that bad" or "that sexual assault was maybe kinda your fault too" they step back and say "Hey, that's a great speech and all, but he's a FUCKING PEDOPHILE, you have to draw the god DAMN line somewhere."

They get a really bad rap. I can't say I frequent that sub-reddit, but I don't have a problem with a counter-circlejerk if you will. There's some really stupid shit on this website and I don't seeing a problem with acknowledging it and/or talking about it.

Btw, "about how stupid the whole site is using a subreddit on Reddit" isn't that crazy. There are people in America talking about how fucked up America is, it doesn't make it hypocritical or anything. The best place to talk about reddit is on reddit, I think that's obvious.

[–]fhite_n_derdy 7 points8 points9 points 4 months ago

For all that, where they choose to draw the line is even more ridiculous. I've seen SRS discussions arguing that "crazy" is a misogynistic term (because, y'know, some guys on Reddit refer to their awful ex-girlfriends as crazy). They've created (appropriated, really) an elaborate lexicon of doublespeak where all social issues fit their version of the facts. Absolutely every social ill, major or minor, from the glass ceiling to violence in the black community to homophobia to the draft being male-only, is blamed solely on The Straight White Cis-Man and his (Rape) Culture of Privilege and Patriarchy. They launch regular harassment and trolling campaigns (check out /r/Mens_Rights, the SRS false flag pretending to be /r/MensRights) and they run their subreddits like /r/pyongyang, deleting entire threads and discussions where the prevailing opinion starts leaning too far from the approved party line. And they've invaded /r/LGBT, one of the largest gay-friendly communities on the internet, and turned it and its 30,000 subscribers into an experiment to see if they could enforce their beliefs in the "real world." Bear in mind that this decision was made by back-room politics, and is still despised by a large portion of LGBT's base. That fiasco is where the alternative /r/ainbow subreddit came from.

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