By David Futrelle
So I’ve been taking a brief “I can’t stand to look at this shit every single day” hiatus, but the thing about the manosphere is that the news never stops breaking. And the latest no-longer-quite-breaking news is that the Reddit admins have, at long last, banned the Braincels subreddit for violating the site’s newly strengthened rules against harassment and bullying.
The subreddit went down on Monday, along with several dozen other subreddits that also should have been banned a long time ago. According to the folks in the SubredditDrama subreddit, here are a few of the other subreddits that are no longer subredditing as of two days ago. I’ve had to lightly censor some of the names for obvious reasons. See if you can detect any themes here!
Several days before the crackdown, the Reddit admins shut down more than a dozen other racist subreddits with names like
Tellingly, the We_Hate_N*ggers subreddit was banned, not for hate, but because it was abandoned by its mods. “This subreddit was banned due to being unmoderated,” the Reddit admins note in their ban annoucement. “If you’d like to take it over please make a post in /r/redditrequest.”
I should note that the mods took down several subreddits making fun of white people as well, but the worst anti-white slur in any of their titles was “mayo,” which I didn’t even realize was a slur and not just something that goes great on sandwiches.
You may find yourself wondering why Reddit wasn’t already instabanning all subreddits WITH THE N-WORD IN THEIR GODDAMNED TITLES. You may find yourself wondering what sort of “content policy” Reddit was operating under that made all of these subreddits just peachy as of a few days ago.
Needless to say, numerous hateful subreddits remain standing — from r/MGTOW to r/TheRedPill to The_Donald, Reddit’s main hangout for MAGAheads.
The inhabitants of these subreddits, worried that they’ll be next, are making plans to regroup on other sites. And bravely announcing their plans to never shut their pie-holes ever.
“I’m not going anywhere,” declared someone called MaestroLogical in the Men Going Their Own Way subreddit.
They don’t dare unleash us on the masses.
They remove the sanctuary and we’ll simply start espousing our ideals in every thread, in every sub.
Er, how is that any different than what Reddit misogynists do already?
While banning all these subreddits won’t shut up all of the dedicated haters who used to populate them, it will make it harder for them to find one another online — and harder for them to recruit. Reddit’s latest ban extravaganza is a step in the right direction from a site that’s generally marching the wrong way.
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r/The_Donald did briefly try and move to VOAT but they weren’t allowed to shut out people who disagreed with their circle jerk. If Reddit upheld the terms of service they’d have been gone years ago. I do wonder if, as this impeachment really does seem to be getting some traction, spez will finally bite the bullet and kick them. I’ll throw in a recommend for r/againsthatesubreddits here. They do good work against a torrent of vileness.
As for David Irving, he’s brilliantly played by Timothy Spall in Denial. Well done and holds pretty close to the facts.
Oh, and Braincels, in contradiction with their name, tried to set up a ban evasion sub that has already been booted.
And, to quote a meme that the kind of edgelord who inhabits these places is generally fond of, nothing of value was lost.
@Katamount
Wow! He owned up to that shit? Can I get references? Because the only one I seem to find is stuck behind a paywall.
@Diego Duarte, Katamount:
I took a look for that, and found https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/davidmack/todd-phillips-joker-woke-culture-comedy
So, yeah, ‘it’s impossible to be funny because of SJWs’ isn’t much of a paraphrase.
I don’t get why all the Joker people are complaining about the “”controversy.”” Thanks to some edgelord incels making terrorist threats and people responding to that, they got tons of free publicity and are going to make a lot more money then their mediocre, tepid film deserves.
I get all the others, but what was the Identitarian subreddit about?
Whenever people say that political correctness ruined comedy, what they seem to mean is “now I can’t get away with bigotry when I say it’s a joke.”
@Wandering October
Identitarian is an alt right buzzword that is short for “white identity politics,” or white nationalism. It’s probably another white supremacist subreddit.
One of those “real talk freeze peach unpopular opinions off my chest rant” subs is currently carrying out a raid on any LGBT sub that includes trans people, including r/LGBT which obv always had a T in it, bc som TERF got mad at a lesbian space that has long had trans mods and included trans women.
Because trans women totally didnt know some women are obsessed with how much they dont like penis and dont see why constantly announcing it in the grossest way is transphobic and insisting women who date trans women cant be lesbians.
I honestly had a bit of a breakdown seeing some of the worst comments.
@Wondering
Well, I dunno but my take would be “White supremacist” since it’s the term they explicitly adopted for recruitment purposes and to camouflage their racist rethoric, under a veil of pseudo-intellectualism.
@Wondering
For some reason my phone autocompleted your ‘nym to “Wandering October” and I didn’t catch it till after the edit timer ran out. Sorry about that. My previous comment was addressed to you.
… same one they’re STILL using — “We don’t GIVE a SHIT! (unless it affects our bottom line)”
And you may find yourself saying: “This is not my beautiful wife! This is not my racist reddit hangout!”
re: “Identitarian”
I’m guessing “Christian Identity”
wikipoedia
Thanks, everyone! I wasn’t familiar with that term, and these days, I don’t know how much to trust the sites a Google search would bring up.
@Moon_custafer:
Okay, I just had to suppress laughter. Particularly since a DJ friend of mine was playing ‘Dog Eat Dog’ at the wind-down from a recent show, so I totally heard that in my head as Weird Al doing David Byrne’s voice.
@ Wondering
If you want a handle on Identitarianism I suggest checking out what Austrian professional troublemaker (hmm, sounds familiar…) Martin Sellner says he believes in. He actually got banned from the UK for his hard- Right shenanigans trying to provoke unrest here in districts where large numbers of Muslims live. Not exactly Christian Identity, which looks like essentially a prison gang from where I’m sitting, but not a million miles from their ideas.
I’m disappointed that identitarians aren’t people who eat white supremacists.
I don’t think they’d taste very good.
O/T, but did anyone else follow Jacob Wohl’s antics yesterday?
For those who don’t know, he held a press briefing in his friend’s driveway with a man who told a fabricated story about how Elizabeth Warren hired him as a pro submissive. The story unraveled pretty quickly and was a bit entertaining. Warren also had a pretty good comeback.
Thing is, I know it’s fake, but honestly if she was into BDSM that would make me support her more.
I’m assuming Jacob met this mysterious sub fellow in a hipster coffee shop.
@naglfar
YES. I laughed and laughed. Do you get a glimpse of the paper they handed the press? The “facts and statements”.
I think the most hilarious (and horrible) thing was that they were attempting to smear her by saying she fucks. Oh no, a consensual relationsip; she “admits” shes in an open relationship with her husband. So where is the harm?
Shes also so frail and small and and yet so VIOLENT with her BDSM, lol.
And HORMONAL. lolol, its called menopause motherfuckers.
i highly recommend watching the video or at least reading the ”facts”. It was entertaining for hours.
@cornychips
I didn’t see those yet. Got links?
Out of curiosity, is she actually in an open relationship?
She has not publicly claimed she is an open relationship irl. Wohls “gotcha” arguement was that warren has declared shes monogamous to her husband irl 6 times, but gigilo marine boy says shes not!! CHECK MATE DEMS!
I’ll work on that link.
I suspect Wohl is pulling his smear attempts in a deliberately super mockable manner because he hopes for progressive social media to spread the word. That way, Fox news doesn’t have to stoop that low.
Another matter is whether he’s actually having/trying to have some political impact, or just grifting rightwingers.
Booo i cant find that paper of “facts” but surely another mammoth has it.
Here is the actual video for the conference
https://www.pscp.tv/w/1BdGYeDDwOMGX