Superstraight just got banned
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I didn't downvote you, but the subreddit had nothing to do with race. I never saw anything about that during my time. Whatever your thoughts are on interracial relationships or media agenda, it's an easy way for a subreddit to be banned. If anyone wants to oppose that, Reddit is 100% the wrong platform. Even as parody, it'll be shutdown super quick -- there's not much twisting you can do on the topic.
The whole biological sex-based semi-parody focus was doomed for failure too, of course, because even if that was allowed, there were a lot of comments while I was browsing on /new/ that explicitly stated that trans men and women are not men and women. That assertion of gender is definitely not allowed on Reddit. It's why the subreddit creators went out of their way to say that trans mxn and womxn are mxn and womxn (or something along those lines).
Maybe they'll successfully contest the ban, but the community was waaay too active for there not to be "hateful comments" (hate as defined by Reddit, of course), and there was visible TERF activity as has been acknowledged in multiple places -- including 1 of TheDonald threads covering the ban -- so I don't expect any permanence since liberal Reddit admins need nebulous excuses to get rid of what they don't like.
Lastly: having this (super straight) sort of content on places like the WIN platform is completely pointless. It HAS to be on Plebbit or other mainstream media, pushing their own rhetoric against them.
Yep - that age-old dilemma. You stay on reddit, you play by their rules. You leave reddit, you lose 95% of your outreach. You're right about that, for sure.
My point is that the people supposedly fighting the left with their own language, were in fact fully embracing identity politics ("I'm a black female superbi"), and not just pretending to for the purpose of ridiculing it. Meanwhile they were having a fit over some nebulous white supremacy scare. I wholeheartedly support gradually waking up the left, but let's not pretend these people don't mostly align with the opinions of a typical redditor.
Ah, I see. Good point. Another user also pointed out:
I don't recall seeing that, maybe I missed it or it was put up after I last browsed it, but tons of red flags all over the place.
Would have been nice if it just stuck to the satire.
That's actually a great way to combat leftist identity politics.
not when the person doing it
if you look like a leftist, walk like a leftist, quack like a leftist and dilate like a leftist, you're not winning.
you can't beat the left at their own game. you don't have nearly enough resources, and most people don't even possess the necessary skillset.
It's not reaching out, it's using their own weapons against them. Like we did with NYS.