Apparently it's "racist" to discuss phenotype or taxonomy on Reddit....

[Profileid]

I'd never heard of it. Silliness. Oversensitive blacks twisting the meaning of words to insinuate racism.

I can see how someone would be offended by that word tbh. The implication is that they're perceived as acting above their station.
Plus Meade clearly dislikes black people.

[Dandelion]

I also noticed that reddit is quite left wing leaning. Nothing wrong with left wing, but it's often also of the SJW variety. Still I post there.

[Smitty]

I can see how someone would be offended by that word tbh. The implication is that they're perceived as acting above their station.
Plus Meade clearly dislikes black people.

I admit I haven't followed the specifics of the incident here, but I've never thought of this word as having racial connotations. I use it to mean snooty or snobbish. I think Rush Limbaugh got in trouble for using it in reference to Michelle Obama. But I think the word is a perfect fit. Can it have racial undertones in certain instances? Sure, but so can most words. I object to the classification of a word as off-limits, at least for a given group, when the word has a clear, objective meaning completely independent of the subjective meanings given it both by those using it and those hearing it.

[xtal]

Honestly Reddit sux ass!

[Dragoon]

A significant majority of Rededit is full of commies and radical liberals. Not Karl Marx? Too bad you are racist!

[Smitty]

I can see how someone would be offended by that word tbh. The implication is that they're perceived as acting above their station.
Plus Meade clearly dislikes black people.

? I thought that made sense.

[Incal]

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[New user]

It often does carry racist undertones and lead to racist discussions, the glorification of one type, and the putting down of others. Look at some of the post here lol. Exhibit A

Good to see those skulls, they are so beautifully un-"modern-daySlavic".

^ Hence it no longer being practiced academically.

I don't even know why you would even post about that outside of an anthro forum and expect it to go any other way, no one else follows that stuff. It's been dead and categorized under scientific racism for years. Being left leaning has nothing to do with anything. That stuff won't be entertained on right leaning forums either.

Everywhere I look 'The Beatles', 'The Beatles'.... 'The Beatles'.... I watch interviews with bands like Guns N Roses and they keep mentioning the flippin' Beatles too.... The Beatles are so overrated. I can't escape from them.

Oh you know it. So much to the point the fans credit them with things they didn't actually do.

[Universe]

Reddit is disgusting. It's a far leftist circlejerk.

I was browsing this thread https://www.reddit.com/r/europe/comm...boris_johnson/
and someone got 70 dislikes for saying he likes Boris Johnson and is pro-Brexit. His comment was "spoilered", that's how reddit works: after your comment gets some dislikes it will be placed under a spoiler and can't be seen like other comments that were'nt disliked.

That's the general attitude on reddit from what I've seen: right-wing opinions almost always get downvoted (and put under a spoiler) or even removed by moderators.

[LostSoul]

A few weeks ago, I also used to think it is racist, but now I think discussing phenotypes isn't that bad. I'm sometimes curious about how people look and there is nothing wrong with it.
Besides, I appreciate the fact that on this forum there is actual freedom of speech. In the mainstream Internet, everything has to be PC and it's irritating as hell!