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"Coon" is a highly derogatory word for Black people. The subreddit was a hive of racist shit.
Reddit finally bans "Coontown", "WatchN*****sDie", & animated child porn forums
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"Coon" is a highly derogatory word for Black people. The subreddit was a hive of racist shit.
backflip10019
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It's a racial slur against African Americans.
SliceSabre
Banned
Coon is a term racist whites use against blacks.
Nah, it's gone. It was moved to 8chan where it's forgotten.
No, that was banned in the first culling.
Coon is an antiquated racial slur used primarily in the south these days. It's surprisingly not derived from "racoon" but possibly from a portuguese word for a slave trading house.
ultratruman
Banned
someone should open a subreddit named cooncity and it beeing a fan page about resident evil. just to mock these lowlifes
crimsonheadGCN
Banned
A former mod of Coontown is threatening a black lady and a mod of /r/GamerGhazi and /r/BlackLadies and the admins haven't done anything about it:
https://www.reddit.com/r/GamerGhazi/comments/3g27yp/just_in_case_any_of_you_thought_things_had/
https://www.reddit.com/r/GamerGhazi/comments/3g27yp/just_in_case_any_of_you_thought_things_had/
Cow Mengde
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Wow, this really open my eyes on some of the disgusting shit in reddit. Now I understand why it has such a reputation. Also makes me glad that I only sub to the more decent sections of the site.
Silver Arrows
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Blackladies ha essentially been bombarded before, and both the previous and current admins did jack shit about it.
I just got the pun in his name. Jesus Christ.
theignoramus
Member
Or even worse...a site where racist vermin and their hives of scum and villainy are shrugged off apathetically with half hearted appeals to free speech.
Chezzymann
Member
A subreddit for racist people who believe "the blacks are the problem" to congregate together and spew their hateful thoughts
This was the /r/coontown greeting:
reddit said:
That's advocating genocide.
That's reddit.
For a taste of what can be the future, have a gander at Like Rand Paul's comments that he eventually had to walk back after a large public backlash.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/taylor-marsh/rand-paul-on-civil-rights_b_582674.html
chaobreaker
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It's been more than a day and the front page of /r/all has not been bombarded with posts by /r/coontown renmant subs and posts calling for the resignation and/or facepunching of /u/spez.
I don't know if should be impressed or disgusted how these white supremacist didn't have as much of meltdown as the FPHers did when /r/fatpeoplehate was banned last month. But then again /u/spez is a white dude and not an Asian woman.
Look at what the front page of reddit is right now vs. what it was when /r/FPH was banned.
I don't know if should be impressed or disgusted how these white supremacist didn't have as much of meltdown as the FPHers did when /r/fatpeoplehate was banned last month. But then again /u/spez is a white dude and not an Asian woman.
Look at what the front page of reddit is right now vs. what it was when /r/FPH was banned.
/r/enoughlibertarianspam
Jesus Christ!! I'm speechless. Are you telling me those proclamations were tolerated? You could go to jail in certain countries of Europe for such remarks. That's some neo-nazi levels of shit.
I used to go to Reddit to check for info of FFXIV, it seemed like a very good site to get info on certain topics but after this I'll stop. I don't want to support the website anymore.
Yep. Absurd.
Mammoth Jones
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Yea, I read a few posts there. It was really, really, really depressing to me. Just the idea that some hate me with all their hearts without even knowing me due to them cherrypicking data. Ugh.
Glad it's banned.
thechristoph
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i think it's unfair that people blame reddit for what it's users do. It's a platform. People may choose to do shitty things with it. People are shitty, not reddit.
Dongs Macabre
aka Daedalos42
But when they don't do anything about it, it is also their fault.
Massive Duck. C.M.
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The people who run Reddit decide to let those shitty things rock, as long as their purse strings aren't in danger
They're weak
Cowardly attitude tbh. You gotta know what your tools are used for. Eventually you're at least partially responsible for how people use your shit.
This is some "guns don't kill people people do" type ish.
It's more "I won't kill you, but I don't have to save you"
Icyflamez96
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They're just going to move somewhere else.
umm batman is a fucking psychopath hypocrit also you're bad at analogies: raz alghoul was a bad guy so it's cool that he died (I guess, if you're a psychopath) but black people aren't a bad guy so it's not cool they get harassed by these idiots
Will that somewhere else be as large, popular and exposed as reddit?
If not then reddit made the right decision getting rid of them.
Icyflamez96
Member
No it's definitely the right decision lol
Protip, its a racist term.
Nothing of worth was lost. Creepy animated child fetishes can get ze boot IMO.
As far as I know, a ton of the Coontown regulars including at least one mod were black. There were certainly quite a few racists, but it was also a giant troll playground. Kinda like a Jewish acquaintance of mine who loves singing banned Nazi songs in public just to offend people I guess. Some people have a very weird sense of humor.
Jelly Rajah
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Yup, because all Reddit users frequented r/coontown.
Reddit is just like any other large gathering of people - some are nice, chill individuals and some are douche bags.
MrCunningham
Member
As much as I am all for freedom of speech, no matter how stupid it may be. I am OK with this... especially the child pornography forum being nuked.
Sorry no. I am all for the banning of hateful subreddits, but the banning of the subreddits you are talking about in the last part of your post was complete bullshit. There was absolutely no reason to ban it, when it's perfectly legal in the US, where reddit is hosted.
You're not going to find many here that are openly sympathetic to your cause. You can see how that material makes people uncomfortable, right? They're essentially children, physically. Coontown was a legal forum technically as well. Doesn't mean it wasn't a necessary culling.
goofballs or... nah?
If you're appealling to legality as moral campus you're blowing it.
"There's no reason to ban things that aren't illegal", your last sentence, doesn't track at all. Lots of things are legal and distasteful / gross / exploitative / troubling. In this case I'm so reticently sympathetic -- that loliporn has some value maybe for some people -- but you gotta motivate that value better than "it's legal".
Making people feel uncomfortable is not a reason. They were not attacking anyone. Also it's not CP, since they're not real, and therefore aren't even people. Drawings don't need to be protected. I am absolutely disgusted by actual CP, but I don't see a moral issue with this. Also, you're quite wrong that not many are sympathetic here, if you look carefully you'll see there are plenty who agree with me. I would also like to state for the record, that I myself do not consume the material, however I defend its right to exist.
Except I don't really see it as a moral issue. So for me that is reason enough.
I don't know if it's necessary, but it's certainly pointless. No racist stopped being racist, no troll stopped being a troll and no pedo stopped lusting for children. They'll all just move on and continue elsewhere. As long as the idiots on Coontown just write crap and the pedos are content with drawings, and nobody actually conspires to commit crimes, those subreddits are harmless and easy to ignore. And possibly ultimately a good thing - driving them away and antagonizing them certainly won't help.
Massive Duck. C.M.
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Reddit decided they were not harmless to their financial interests and junked them
nothing more
For Reddit it's not about changing racist/pedo minds or the harm those users might cause to other reddit users or outside people, it's about covering their own ass
Oh, I understand why Reddit banned them. I'd do the same if I was financially invested. Doesn't mean I necessarily agree from a legal, moral or psychological standpoint.
That was the exact opinion of those posting in Coontown. Doesn't mean the material they were actively posting wasn't fucked. The subject matter on whatever banned loli forum etc clearly was not something Reddit wanted to be part of. That's their decision to make and one I agree with, personally. I get you feel this is some sort of attack on creative freedom etc but choosing to defend the 2d banging of childlike characters seems an odd place to make your stand.
It's not fucked, because they're just drawings. Real children, of course, that's totally wrong, and most certainly should not be allowed. No one is actually being harmed by these drawings. It's completely a different case with racist subreddits, where the content is actually hurtful, and does more than a fair share of harm.
Massive Duck. C.M.
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No one is obligated to give a platform to something they don't agree with, much less a for-profit business. There's nothing illegal, amoral, or psychologically damaging about removing filth from your vicinity.
If you're just interested in defending the right to being filth, I don't really know what else to tell you.
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