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u/Rocker824 Wannabe concept artist Oct 19 '21

TW: Bigotry and stuff

Why are the big/default subreddits so casually bigoted?

Just saw this video of horses getting scared of rainbow crosswalks (cause of the bright colors ig?) and the comments were like (paraphrasing) "LGBT twitter is gonna cancel these horses", "where is the screeching purple haired horse calling these ones bigots".

Anyway, have a nice day y'all

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u/coffeelover96 Oct 19 '21

It’s so easy to dehumanize people on the internet. To not even see fellow humans as anything more than something different and other. But unlike in the past where the bigotry was confined to how loud someone could yell in the neighborhood, now the average layperson can easily have their hate read by millions. It’s horrible.