Hate crimes against Asians rose 76% in 2020 amid pandemic, FBI says
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Posted in r/news by u/fundementaloutrage • 23,132 points and 2,528 comments

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something to do with the media trying to fan the flames of a new cold war? maybe r*dditors might introspect about consequences of their own rampant fearmongering? no sweaty dont be silly, its black peoples skull shape

  • GnastyGnuts [he/him]
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    3 years ago

    are redditors the most racist social media demographic of all the mainstream social media sites (so not counting shit like 4chan or whatever)?

    • deadtoddler420 [any]
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      3 years ago

      Honestly at least 4chan knows they're racist. Like most people who post on 4chan I met just think saying slurs is funny. Meanwhile redditors think they're heroic for hating Chinese people.

      • LoudMuffin [he/him]
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        3 years ago

        Youtube can be a mixed bag though, there's usually some pushback along with Facebook surprisingly....

        reddit is just pure chauvinism IMO, redditors are largely really dumb sheltered mid twenty somethings, a lot of Youtube and FB comments are from middle aged people who fried their brains with internet but have enough life experience to know differently and kids

      • OfficialBenGarrison [he/him]
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        3 years ago

        Democratized media and its consequences have been a disaster for the human race.

        MAYBE all this would have fared better after a cultural revolution to purge the west of its sadism.

    • RandyLahey [he/him]
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      3 years ago

      i think its a hotly-contested crown, but yeah its not just that they had subs like r/c*ontown etc or still have openly-fash r/pcm, its that theres an environment where "enlightened" self-important people in mainstream "serious" subs can just casually post "actually the real problem is that were not allowed to talk about how much crime black people do" and get tonnes of upvotes and ridiculous awards

    • JoesFrackinJack [he/him]
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      3 years ago

      So I'd say that because of how the "hivemind" thing works on reddit, generally the racism and xenophobia is more accepted and common as it's just seen as the right think. Of course there is also definitely subs that go out of their way to be racist/edgy-- so bad that other redditors think it's too racist for them.

      Like even in real life, there are many liberals or even "progressives" that hold some pretty racist views. Whether it's closeted or not, there are definitely people who don't think they hold any problematic views thinking they're anything but racist. There is just some narratives that stick to big groups of people that don't consider themselves holding racist or xenophobic views.

      It's really hard to say if reddit, Facebook or YouTube have more or less racism, I think it's possible to be worst in some areas than others. like outwardly nazi content creators are absolutely going to have vile shit in their comments. But you can also be blind sided by seeing it in areas you wouldn't expect.