Just wanted to let you all know about avery diverting — and damnably difficult — little game you can play on the internets: Reddit or Stormfront?
The premise is simple: You’re presented with an assortment of terrible comments, and you simply have to guess whether each one came from the hive of whiteboy bigotry known as Reddit … or the hive of white supremacist bigotry known as Stormfront.
It’s actually really hard. I’ve been playing it off and on since last night, and I’m barely doing better than pure chance.
The game was evidently inspired by the funny/disturbing Reddit-critical subreddit, SRSsucksOrStormfront. You might also enjoy perusing MRMorWhiteRights.
Unfortunately, I did really well at this game and played to the end. Familiarity with Stormfront and how the members word their comments was a big help. As previous commenter noted, many members are pretty savvy with how they are perceived and that their comments are readily available for anyone to see.
I’d rather not be as familiar with Stormfront as I am (or the creepy little recesses of Reddit) but I teach introductory Critical Culture & Race classes and knowing the wording and opinions can be helpful in diffusing potentially circular (and time consuming) arguments in and outside of the classroom.
Plus, I live in an area where there are large and active Aryan and White Nationalist groups operating, so I like keeping an eye on what they are up to.
On the up side (I think) I also did really well on the MLP game, so thanks opium4themasses for a little antidote to the poison.
It’s fair to assume that anyone killed in the Holocaust is hated on Stormfront.
I got 10 out of 29 for 34%. Then I got this:
@katz, Fair point, that. Also, I see you got more adorable kitties! All boys?
Shame katz isn’t closer or I’d offer to go babysit the kittens when she’s busy.
(I’m not allowed to foster kittens, landlord would be most displeased if I tried.)
2 boys and 2 girls, and the mom’s orange too! They will go SO fast.
So cute. My very first cat was an orange tabby, and I have such a soft spot for them.
This was actually pretty difficult. I’ve generally overlooked a lot of the racism on reddit – I’ve seen plenty of the misogyny and homophobia, but I was luckily unexposed to the race stuff. Ugh, what is wrong with the world.
I know this is off-topic but I love orange tabbies too, every orange kitty I’ve met or lived with always had such great personalities. I hope a little kitty talk is welcome after the hideous bile we’ve subjected ourselves to.
Kitty talk is always welcome on this site.
Kitty talk is always welcome.
I have definitely found the right place then š
Biscuit is our ginger baby, and he is the sweetest, happiest cat I’ve ever had. Of course he only has two settings–complete freakout or total lovebug, but he’s growing out of freakiness.
I got 60% on the quiz, and then it told me I’d gone through all the questions.
The quote about gypsies was easy to identify as being from /r/worldnews, unfortunately.
@misery
probably not best to use g**sies, since it is a slur :/
My mom’s orange tabby w/white follows her around like a duckling. He’s so sweet. The poor guy was stuck in a shelter for four years before she finally adopted so I guess he’s really grateful to her for finally getting a good home.
Cute Overload defines orange tabbies as “MARMIES: The Best. Cats. EVAR.”
I saw that SPLC finding mentioned on Pharyngula (that or RS) – I wondered if you’d seen it, David.
I was torn between Mads and an orange tabby at the shelter. Wish I could have brought both home! (I ended up asking Mr K which kitty, and he said Mads.)
Marmalade cats are absolutely the best ever.
I spent my childhood in a home made heavenly with two of them. Being little kids, sis and I gave them cute names (so we thought). They were from the same litter, one quite dark — like the jar of marmalade you made years ago and forgot at the back of the pantry, the other a beautiful classic orange marmalade. Dad wanted to call them Pete and Re-Pete, but we wouldn’t let him get away with a permanent dad joke.
And then my sister brought another one home when they were about 8 years old. He was divinely beautiful, classic orange with a white bib and soft glossy fur a bit longer than the other two. And super clever. (The other two were noticeably unimpressed.)
I did a little photo retrospective about my last litter.
Orange tabby kittens? I really wish
my husband wasn’t allergic to cats.
::Crosses fingers and hopes that all that formatting works.::
It took me 7 questions to get one right, and that was only because I thought “Oh? Saying shit about rape? Must be reddit”
Yeah…
Y’know, I’m not doing -awesome- on that quiz, but I found a quick trick: the Reddit ones usually give the impression that they expect/hope actual Black people are in their audience, reading their crap. The Stormfront ones give more of a ‘closed doors’ impression, as of a private conversation Black people aren’t perceived as attending. It’s… Interesting?
Even with all the tips in this thread, I still only did as well as chance.
I gave up after about a dozen questions and getting them mostly all wrong. I guess I’m at a bit of a disadvantage because I only tend to go on reddit to look at pictures. Oh well.