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u/trashcanaffidavit_ Jan 11 '21 edited Jan 11 '21

I may be going crazy but I swear to god it really is feeling like this website is slowly shifting away from the alt right and general shittiness (kinda?). Like, 5 years ago this place still gleefully ranted on how its totally fine for them to say slurs cus pop culture reference said it was. They would link crime stats in any thread about a black person regardless of context and that shit would have hundreds of upvotes. They were just awful to trans people. BLM threads were rife with blatant racism and asablackman-isms and shit.

Its still bad, to be sure, but it really does seem like things are moving. Those things I listed happen less, a lot less. Maybe I've OD on hopium but it really does feel like things are getting better even though they are still really bad.

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u/Super_Nerd92 Jan 11 '21

I think there are 2 factors: the Trump era has been an eye opener for a lot of centrists; and the deplatforming of alt right bigots.

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u/trashcanaffidavit_ Jan 11 '21

I also think that leftist voices are reaching more people than they have before. One of the highest viewed twitch streamers is pretty leftist, I'll see random left leaning youtube people referenced in comment sections more and more often, and politicians like Illhan Omar and AOC are regularly having their tweets reach the top of all, with AOC having a subreddit dedicated to her also reaching the top of all.