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after I got banned from Reddit Admins for single reporting racist comment I decided its best time to leave. i am not going to bow to that racist scum. https://imgur.com/a/8B2dlSQ https://imgur.com/a/ctET6Rb
As per your screenshot & the contained link, you reported this comment as racist?
It sounds to me like you got banned for a good reason, because that was an abuse of the reporting tool.
Reporting a racist comment isn't "abuse".
Even if you think racism is OK if it happens to be against a group you hate, it's still not justifiable to ban someone for bringing it to the the attention of the administrators.
That would achieve nothing except make people afraid to alert the mods.
Thats a bad outcome no matter what.
Hi @raspberriesareyummy@lemmy.world , would you be so kind and elaborate about, how comment that is aimed on group of people based purely on their skin color is not racist and therefore reporting of it should be punished as it was? I say, it is misusing admin, or mod privileges for sake of spreading hatred against that specific group of people. All people should treat each other equally and nobody should banning people that fight racism by only option they have (had) on that platform, ergo reporting that.
Racism: attributing certain attributes (positive or negative) to a group of people based on perceived ethnicity. Also, to think that something like "race" even exists.
Comment in question:
That being said, for this particular comment, both parts of the statement are based in truth. On average, "white" people are still very much privileged in many parts of the world, and most world-wide atrocities committed post renaissance era were committed by the same group.
I am about as white as it gets, and I can definitely recognize this simple truth and certainly do not feel the need to get butt-hurt over someone saying it out loud.
people and communities got in full rage mode for much less. racism is racism and is always bad and therefore it got reported. you are just trying to excuse that with all that bs around. it was racistic comment aimed on people based on their skin color, period. i guess some particular admin got butthurt even more by that report, and misused his/her power, dont you think? doesnt that fact annoy you more, than that someone reported such a comment and you feel urge to attack me in comments around?
Yeah racism is racism, and that just wasn't racism. It's your definition that is incorrect.
Ahh yes, whites, the real victims of racism. 🙄
https://www.loc.gov/free-to-use/presidential-portraits/
Probably saying privileged yellow/black folk is not a racism too. /s
On the other hand if you agree, I will appreciate your consistency.
Personally, "privlaged ritch folk stuck in their infantile fantacy" works as a really punchy drop-in replacement.
Indeed, rich is not a race. Good replacement.
Imagine if you were to replace "white" with "black" or "asian" or "gay" in the text you quoted. Is it now a racist comment?