When I started using reddit about 7 years ago, it was a bastion of intelligent, sometimes irreverent community discussion. But with things like this, and the recent talk of "segregating" communities which reddit "wishes didn't exist", its become a very different place. The mass logging of users by a certain segment of those users is extremely troubling. It actually makes me watch my words, and where I comment. The path they're going is having a chilling effect on speech right now.
Its an awful shame, and what's crazier is that in their zeal to make a safe place, they're enabling shaming and bullying on a massive level. I don't even think the SJWs behind this even comprehend what they're doing.
Reddit will fall. And where the people go, the SJWs will go also to yell at them. How will Voat handle them when they eventually come?
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[–] idunnome ago
Okay. Really stupid question here: What's an "SJW"?
[–] Confusion 0 points 5 points 5 points (+5|-0) ago
Social Justice Warrior. Note the warrior bit? SJW are like knight of yore, gallivant around the internet like they are on some religious crusade, and that religion is social justice. Think of them as extremist for equality, but take it so far that everyone becomes unequal again by race and gender segregation, class separation, privilege stacks, and culture appropriation (the last bit is anti-culture spreading). They usually use complaining, calling people racists and sexists, and claiming to be oppressed to get their way.
[–] idunnome 0 points 1 point 1 point (+1|-0) ago
Gotcha. Thanks for taking a minute of your day to explain it. All the posts referring to SJWs now make perfect sense. :)