REDDIT LOST SOUL ASIDE FREE
That can be a boon to free speech, say proponents of the policy. Its several hundred million users are known to one another only by their screen names, without the profile pictures and biographies that are typical of other social media sites. It can be difficult to tell a person’s race on Reddit. As one of the forum’s moderators recalled, the thought was that the white users who held sway in nearly all of Reddit’s 157,100 other communities, known as subreddits, would see no need to dominate this one. Given that the vast majority of Reddit users are white, no one seemed to be under the illusion that only black people would weigh in. Conversations about topics in the news and personal encounters with racial bias were interspersed with sometimes off-color humor about sex, romance and lifestyle advice. A post parodied the discomfort many white people seem to feel with the phrase “black lives matter.” Participants riffed on the rapper Kanye West’s suggestion that slavery had lasted too long to have been involuntary. The forum, one of the many on Reddit, featured a feed of jokes and memes and commentary circulated on social media by black people, and comment threads where discussions could unfold. It was meant to be a destination on the internet where black people could let down their guard.
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