Comment by DagAgren
6 years ago
It should be noted here that "culture war topics" that are banned means literal white supremacists, nazis and their ilk.
You are acting as if it is a great injustice done to the man that he was forced to do the absolute bare minimum to stop giving nazis a forum.
It does not. Anything that's obviously politicized in a way that relates to the culture wars (including "Blue Tribe vs. Red Tribe" topics) is inappropriate outside CW-specific spaces. And obvious calls to harassment, violence, blatant bigotry etc. have always been off-limits altogether.
But talk about how white people are superior was not off-limits, was it?
And the fact that he would clumsily ban everything political instead of specifically the nazi shit isn't exactly a great look, either.
Political discussion relating to the culture wars was not banned, it was corraled in order to encourage non-culture-wars discussion. And by and large, nazi $#!+ and "white people are superior"-style bigotry was banned and got zero attention. (When people refer to racist views at SSC they don't mean that literally as a rule, they're just disparaging uncomfortable views about very well defined issues in social science and the like, that have zilch to do with superiority or supremacism of any sort, naziism etc. Shooting the messenger, basically.)
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