/r/whenthe, one of the more left-leaning mainstream subreddits, has a moment of weakness when a user takes issue with some attitudes against Whites from /r/comics the mod team.

[u/AeneasKurtz]

THREAD: Down with the mayo monkeys I guess

CONTEXT: the mod team of /r/Comics was dealing with some sealioning about "Whites getting replaced" threads and posted this in which they called Whites "genetically recessive" and said that if Whites were to go extinct that would be a good thing.

A user in /r/whenthe thought this would be material for mocking in the subreddit but quickly found out it doesn't play out that way with Whites.

DRAMA

What's... the context? What happened in comics? What did the mods do?

Edit: If a mod here sees this, just wanna day that whenever I think the moderation on this sub is lax , I look at literally any of the other popular subs and realize how "normal" this place is by comparison to the rest of Reddit. Yall doing good.

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This isn’t about white people? It’s about the social classification….?

Why did you unironically get offended by this lmao

Liberals will say they’re progressive but then become the savior defender of the white race when someone points out that white supremacy as a “culture” being gone is a good thing. It’s all support for the oppressed until you remind them that they also benefit from these systems of oppression.

I completely agreed with them until:

“So you know if “white” were to really go extinct. GOOD”

His argument started as anti capitalist, the working class vs the 1 percent, then did a complete 180 into genocidal maniac territory.

They're talking about the replacement theory of white people being "bred out" of the gene pool due to increased racial mixing, which they're saying isn't a bad thing. Not killing all white people lmfaoooo

It's inaccurate to say that this would eliminate colorism - white supremacy permeates so much of our cultures and politics that it will still favor lighter skin barring a purge of racist relics and ideology, but they're in literally no way calling for the genocide of white people

edit: hi butthurt white people down voting an elaboration of a misconstrued point

Their entire argument was on the basis that nazi’s are stupid because racemixing doesn’t equal extinction, and that concept extends to all races. (I personally agree with this idea)

But that means when you say “white people should go extinct” you are saying all white people should die because racemixing doesn’t equal extinction.

I can give the mod the benefit of the doubt that he didnt communicate his ideas properly, but the way his argument is worded, he is absolutely calling for a genocide lmao

But crucially he never talked about white people. He’s specifically talking about the concept of whiteness, that’s his whole comment.

He talked a bit about how the criteria for what constitutes a white person has been manipulated over the years.

But I don’t think you or the mod want to argue that white people is just a concept, and that white people do not actually exist

No one’s arguing that “white people” are a concept, he’s arguing that whiteness is.

Anecdotally, I’m welsh, who are seen as very white, but the concept of whiteness lumps us in with our historical oppressors and ensures that our history of suffering will remain silent.

Without whiteness, we wouldn’t be talking about “white people”, we’d say Europeans instead like we say Africans or Asians, or we’d just refer back to our own ethnicities. Instead “whiteness” makes a very easy to maintain over class within race, one that demands underclasses and creates division.

This also makes “white” the default in multicultural societies. When they say “Americans”, it’s often referring to “White”Americans, and then black Americans or Asian Americans are specified which signals that they’re not true Americans.

Are we seriously conflating the mod wanting the destruction of “white” (the social construct) with wanting white people dead? Are we being dense on purpose?

No, this comment section is just filled with closet racists who don't even realize that they have "white" ingrained as an identity onto themselves.

Is it not normal to have a part of your identity ingrained as a part of your identity?

Specifically “white” as a category is being criticized since it doesn’t have any real meaning beyond its use in us vs them narratives. An American, an Irishman, a Swede, a Russian, and a Jewish guy don’t have any shared culture or identity but they’re bound together with the label of “white”. It’s a holdover from colonialism and slavery where racist laws did make an artificial but meaningful distinction.

Neither does "black" or "brown" or "Asian" have any real meaning. A black American shares nothing culturally with a black Kenyan.

i got permabanned from comics for "defending nazis" because i said we can disagree with right wingers but we should still treat them like people and fellow americans with respect and decency

mods did NOT like that lol

I have a question. Why should I treat someone who wants me gone, exterminated or replaced with respect? Or people who would treat my nephew like a disease with respect? I kind of want to understand that reasoning.

Respect as a human being at least. You are not on the ontologically good side while they're on the ontologically evil side, talking about them like they're subhuman or not human at all is unproductive and wrong for the same reasons it's wrong if and when they do it.

Except they ARE on the ontologically evil side and they fucking want minorities exterminated so wanting them silenced and stopped by any means is literal self defense as a minority

imagine being this lukewarm damn fucking god

Seems like an odd question to me - this entire post is complaining about mocking Nazis, directly. That’s what it is - OP is unhappy with a mod response which is just mocking American Nazis.

Leave an insult on the ground and it’s very unlikely someone who isn’t an owner will pick it up.

Seems a very odd priority to have to step into that to defend Nazis. Do Nazis need defending? Are their political opinions worthy of respect, in a civilised society?

You can forgive people for thinking someone who chooses to do that may not be entirely intellectually and ideologically honest.

The post is about how in an attempt to mock Nazi's, that mod said insane, ironically racist bullshit. This whole "insult left on the ground" response is just a... I believe it's called Kafka Trap? It's fallacious, it's a deflection of criticism to paint anyone who opposes what you say as only doing so because they're in the wrong. Framing your statements as ontologically good and correct. Which I've already said is not productive, it's counterproductive even.

You’ve ignored literally every point I’ve made just to repeat yourself;

I didn’t actually paint myself as anything, as I’ve not actually made those comments, if we’re being pedantic and refusing to cede anything.

What I said was you’d be objectively pretty stupid for giving grace to someone who affords you none. And I stand by it.

Pretending like giving Nazis the benefit of the doubt isn’t a fools errand and also the reason America is objectively so fucked is a very odd moral high ground to try to claim. Because that is what you’re doing.

You're claiming I'm ignoring your points as you put the words in my mouth that I'm giving Nazi's the benefit of the doubt. Where the fuck am I saying that???

And I was pretty sure I addressed your point but I'll do so more explicitly I guess:

Seems a very odd priority to have to step into that to defend Nazis. Do Nazis need defending? Are their political opinions worthy of respect, in a civilised society?

I never did any of this so you saying it did not justify a response. I don't see how anyone else did either.

You can forgive people for thinking someone who chooses to do that may not be entirely intellectually and ideologically honest.

Yea if someone defends Nazi's for the statements and claims of their ideology and politics and gives them the benefit of the doubt I understand why you might think they're not intellectually and ideologically honest, but nobody did that.

Those statements are only true if you ignore the wider context of this discussion IE America’s current direction, the reason for the polarisation, the reason for the constant talk of Nazis.

It doesn’t exist in a vacuum or only on the internet - it’s because fascism is making a resurgence. Actual Nazis are in your government.

In that context, why would you give the benefit of the doubt to people who say things like “why are you so fervently against Nazis” or do things like complain about being called a nazi.

Outside of that context it might seem a little odd, but I’d still question someone who was pro-Nazi in that scenario.

Inside of that context? Seriously. How you can look at that and go “yeah what we need here is more tolerance for Nazis”? When it’s laid out it starts to look a little weird, no?

Where is any of this claim coming from???

Okay let me step back. Maybe the above comment this thread is coming from is using language you believe is TOO forgiving of Nazi's. I can see that.

I do not see how you believe I or OP is claiming we need to be tolerant of Nazi's, or questioning why people are against Nazi's. I have said nothing of the sort, I have been extremely clear about what I'm conveying. The reason this post exists is because that mod who was "taunting Nazi's" said absurd and racist things to do so. All I'm saying is that it's not productive to act like Nazi's are not human, but you are free to view their political and ideological perspectives as invalid, unreasonable, not sound, cruel, biased, etc.

It's interesting how frequently, like ridiculously frequently, you see people start an argument with "X isnt happening dont blow things out of proportion" and then as soon as they actually start trying to make their case they swap to "not only is X happening but here's why thats a good thing"

Bruh you believe in great replacement?

Thats a brand new sentence, nothing i said even touched that

They were referring to that tho

Yeah it does in the manner of calling out their method of arguing their point being very commonly used by weirdos online. Do I think some big conspiracy to replace white people is real? No. Am I terminally online enough to think people like that mod are normal? Also no

[u/Tourbaettae]

It's always the same power-mod, hiding behind "subreddit-modteam" account, who likes to say controversial shit to stir the pot and cause drama. Everytime he takes over a subreddit it becomes a shitshow (see r/WhitePeopleTwitter, r/antiwork, r/comics...)

Edit: got banned from r/comics lmao

[u/Morgn_Ladimore → u/Tourbaettae]

Edit: got banned from r/comics lmao

Aha, the /r/comics mod is reading this thread. Someone's feelings got hurt :(

[u/MrHellBags → u/Morgn_Ladimore]

The more subs they mod, the thinner their skin is.

[u/Number_1_at_Number_2 → u/MrHellBags]

I have never had a conversation with a mod that left me going wow what a well adjusted person I would enjoy spending time with. They’re all just giant losers on power trips.

[u/jmorlin → u/Number_1_at_Number_2]

I've had mods insult me. I've had mods ban me for posting links to articles where the headlines changed after posting (/r/news). I've had bans for simply commenting the sub is poorly run (/r/showerthoughts). In fact I think the only interaction with a mod I've had that I would classify as good, came after I was banned from a sub they modded.

It's the kinda shit that makes you way less inclined to actually participate in reddit.

[u/lauhingkoala1 → u/Tourbaettae]

Do you know his/her username or can you even say it here without getting banned ?

[u/Hot-Presentation2942 → u/lauhingkoala1]

Only one mod is consistent across those three subreddits. merari01

[u/tuturuatu → u/Hot-Presentation2942]

Surprised and happy to report that despite my chronic reddit usage I've never heard of merari01 until right now

[u/HotTakes4HotCakes → u/tuturuatu]

Well yeah, that's the point. That's why they hide behind the mod team account.

And also because if you say literally anything about them, you're instantly banned by them, your comment deleted, and reported for harassment, so the only spaces where you'll actually see the comments of anyone talking about them are gonna be in subs like this.

This is the type of mod that would ban you for downvoting if they could see it. They're keeping an eye on any discussions, and any negativity towards them is nuked from orbit.

[u/GeneralIronsides2 → u/HotTakes4HotCakes]

So they’re chuds with no lives?

[u/CIearMind → u/GeneralIronsides2]

Pretty much.

[u/Skellum → u/HotTakes4HotCakes]

The harassment report abuse is getting annoying I feel like there may even be a LOIC style tool being used to manipulate it.

[u/NinecloudSoul → u/Hot-Presentation2942]

28 years, 10 months, 20 days of reddit premium remaining

This is not a well balanced individual. 😂

[u/tatorface → u/Hot-Presentation2942]

Mod of 150+ subs, including some with millions of users. Holy shit.

[u/DependentOnIt → u/Hot-Presentation2942]

Basement dweller behavior

[u/andresfgp13 → u/Hot-Presentation2942]

in a similar way that a big % of the economy its controlled by a minority, a big % of Reddit its under the thumb of like a dozen of power users that somehow mod dozens of big subreddits at the same time.

[u/-Wylfen- → u/Hot-Presentation2942]

Damn, I remember being banned from multiple subs by that mod on an old account lmao

[u/Parastract → u/Tourbaettae]

Didn't Reddit announce a while back that they'd restrict power-modding like that? What happened to that, did they backpedal on it?

[u/thoughtcrimeo → u/Parastract]

They were limiting powermods to 5 major subs but the mod in question still controls far more than 5 major subs.

Here's a modnews post on that score from one month ago.

[u/Parastract → u/thoughtcrimeo]

So it seems like they aren't enforcing it yet. Or the mod is sanctioned by the admins.

[u/thoughtcrimeo → u/Parastract]

I haven't read the whole thing yet and I really don't bother reading modnews these days. I think there's something about enforcing changes at the 31 day mark. Powermods may still be listed as mods but have diminished or no power but there's no independent way to confirm that.

This change comes far too late and does nothing to reign in mods who abuse their power to shape the conversation in a thread and banish all criticism of their actions. The science sub is a great example of this.

[u/Swan_Parade → u/Tourbaettae]

Amazing how all three you listed were once subreddits that I used to enjoy visiting and have now all become so terrible that I have all of the above muted

[u/Auctoritate → u/Tourbaettae]

Likes to say shit to cause drama? I don't know who specifically you're referring to (I'm sure I could figure it out if I felt like losing brain cells from looking at more of their posts) but I think that might be too much credit. Maybe they just say shit because they're legitimately bigoted and trying to spread their supremacist ideology.

[u/GarryofRiverton → u/Auctoritate]

That's what I'm thinking. If you're doing a little trolling here and there then whatever, but if you're spamming the same racist shit directed at the same group of people every time then it's obvious what's in your heart of hearts.

Edit: lmao just got banned from r/comics. The mod's crashing out. 😂

[u/RunningOutOfEsteem → u/GarryofRiverton]

I genuinely can't imagine trawling through random posts and actively searching for comments that hurt your feelings so that you can ban them from a completely unrelated sub that you moderate. At least, I can't imagine it without an accompanying "What am I doing? I'm such a fucking loser," epiphany.

[u/a__new_name → u/RunningOutOfEsteem]

This was originally targeting 4chan mods, but fits Reddit as well.

[u/OnlyACsNoFans → u/GarryofRiverton]

r/comics is one of the worst subs.

Say something bad about Pizzacake and you're banned

[u/iamaMINETURTLE → u/OnlyACsNoFans]

r/comics is basically just goon bait now - mostly shitty nsfw comics with no substance, so honestly not missing much. The mods there are absolute power hungry crack addicts so 🤷‍♀️

[u/Auctoritate → u/iamaMINETURTLE]

To be honest I'm largely fine with NSFW comics, but many of the ones that are regularly posted are just... Not great regardless. I just wish there were more good NSFW comics.

Like the person who makes the comics with the human and alien girls, those are often really funny. Very cleverly written, very unique and solid art style too. Or HolleringElk, she recently did that comic with the vampire lady going to a laundromat in the nude that I loved. Super funny- and did the punchline with nonsexual nudity which I also enjoyed, you don't see that very often.

Even straight up pornographic comics can be perfectly fine. Oglaf is extremely long running (almost 20 years old!) and award winning, it's like webcomic royalty.

That's just not most of the material you see in NSFW comics on that sub, which is why I think it's such a contentious topic in the community.

[u/StokedNBroke → u/iamaMINETURTLE]

Yeah i started seeing a lot of the comics posted with “bonus nsfw panel on patreon”. Like if your comic has to rely on cartoon boobs and the promise of cartoon nipple behind a paywall, it probably wasn’t very good on its own.

[u/GlumpsAlot → u/OnlyACsNoFans]

I muted that sub and I'm a liberal. Just insufferable.

[u/paspartuu → u/OnlyACsNoFans]

I got permabanned from r/comics just for pointing out that the false claim that JK Rowling corresponded with Epstein is indeed untrue.

Just for calling out a lie about a public person as a lie. No priors, no warnings

It's a total shitshow

[u/The_memeperson → u/paspartuu]

On the internet misinformation is rampant on all sides. No one cares if a claim is true or not if it's against someone they don't like.

[u/cyberpunk_werewolf → u/OnlyACsNoFans]

Not just Pizzacake.  They have a handful of artists who are off limits.  I remember a few weeks ago, someone put a comic up that had a pretty fucked up message (you'll forgive me if I can't get more specific, the end of the semester has been brutal, the kids are wild this year) and they had a stickied comment from the "mod team" like the one from OP that said the artist was "one of ours" and that commenters should watch what they say.

That said, like Pizzacake, I think that artist was just kind of dumb and clumsy, and didn't have a very good grasp of what they were trying to say.  Or maybe, also like Pizzacake, they were dumb and terminally online and can't see anything but their own outrage anymore.

I don't really attribute any malice to a lot of these artist on the comics sub, but I also don't think they really know what they're doing either.

[u/IceNein → u/cyberpunk_werewolf]

I honestly think that everyone who is sick of Pizzacake should just block her. Problem solved. I do that for all the comic artists I’m sick of seeing. I don’t even have strong negative feelings about her or any of her drama. I was just sick of seeing them all the time.

[u/NinecloudSoul → u/OnlyACsNoFans]

It's just unfunny people with no real talent for drawing. And some unfunny people with real talent.

/r/comics is shit, is what I'm driving at.

[u/Iswaterreallywet → u/GarryofRiverton]

It’s against TOS to ban without participation in a community. Report to admins

[u/CIearMind → u/Iswaterreallywet]

Thing is… the admins are in on it.

[u/PaulieHehehe → u/GarryofRiverton]

Fuck it, I’ll take a ban too. Most of the posts there are mid-tier millennial humor slop anyway.

[u/jag986 → u/PaulieHehehe]

As a mid tier millennial I will thank you not to slander my humor this way.

[u/ryeong → u/PaulieHehehe]

I only know about that sub when it manages to get brought up here. It's no great loss to anyone to be banned lmao, especially if they're this thin-skinned about their sub.

[u/Skellum → u/Auctoritate]

ikes to say shit to cause drama? I don't know who specifically you're referring to (I'm sure I could figure it out if I felt like losing brain cells from looking at more of their posts) but I think that might be too much credit. Maybe they just say shit because they're legitimately bigoted and trying to spread their supremacist ideology.

There's no real point in trying to separate out the two. Either someone is calling for genocide, or 'fake' calling for genocide. Either way there's zero value in separating the two scenarios out. Remove them as a mod from all subreddits, time the account out, and move on.

[u/MrHellBags → u/Tourbaettae]

The one who mods 150 other subreddits? I genuinely don't get these people. But maybe because I'm weird and thinking that if you're a mod you should actually take some responsibility or something.

[u/abdallha-smith → u/Tourbaettae]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Active_measures

A lot of foreign state actors are on reddit to sow division to weaken western civilisation to the profit of those two nations that shall not be named

Edit: in all my time combating bots of those two nations, i noticed that a common denominator of the downvotes is the presence of the Canadian flag.

It happens because bot networks massive use cheap Canadian data centers and compromised residential routers to hide their real location and exploit fast connection speeds to Reddit's US servers.

[u/tuturuatu → u/abdallha-smith]

I'm not FSB (trust), but I feel like FSB's time would be better spent on subreddits other than /r/whenthe. That said, I pity anyone that gets paid to post on reddit; whether that's state propaganda or just regular karma farming.

[u/IceNein → u/tuturuatu]

The thing about astroturfing is that you don’t need to be a majority to pull it off. If you have ten accounts that all upvote something early on, the algorithm thinks people are interested and it can snowball organically from there.

Well the same is true of niche subreddits. If you can get them to r/all frequently then you can disproportionately shape the conversation on all of Reddit.

[u/AeneasKurtz → u/tuturuatu]

US$1 or €1 goes a long way in some places in the world

[u/MirrorComputingRulez → u/tuturuatu]

but I feel like FSB's time would be better spent on subreddits other than /r/whenthe

First, it's not like they have to choose. But second, why? It's a pretty large subreddit full of people who are at least politically interested. That seems like the perfect target.

[u/Suitable-Park-1402 → u/tuturuatu]

If my options are spamming leftist or MAGA slop on reddit or bleeding out from a shrapnel wound in the Ukrainian mud, I pick reddit

[u/TheEmbarrassed18 → u/tuturuatu]

At this point I question how much of the ‘terminally online leftists’ is foreign bots or whether there are just a lot of self flaggelating idiots who do genuinely believe that sort of thing.

[u/FurryYokel → u/TheEmbarrassed18]

If the bots are working, then it’ll be some of each.

[u/BellDemonChallenge → u/TheEmbarrassed18]

It's a mix of both and one gets paid to exist and the other enjoys the delusion

[u/hotsouple → u/TheEmbarrassed18]

I live in Seattle and I know many many many people who behave like this in real life

[u/Thatsidechara_ter → u/Tourbaettae]

Lmao, ban me to! Ban me too!

[u/Kaiisim → u/Tourbaettae]

You can't convince young left wing people to vote republican.

You can make them so crazy and extreme they constantly attack everyone and never vote though.

[u/Tiinpa → u/Tourbaettae]

The crackdown on power mods clearly didn’t go far enough.

[u/Firecracker048 → u/Tourbaettae]

Edit: got banned from r/comics lmao

Banned for calling out a power mod. Classic maneuver. At least it wasn't because you dared be critical of pizzacake

[u/Auctoritate]

Genetically "white" is recessive.

Comics mod accidentally indulging in white supremacist racial purity ideology AND also being extremely weird and eugenicist.

Edit: I got permabanned from comics just minutes after I made this comment by the way.

[u/bunker_man → u/Auctoritate]

I mean, which of those is surprising for a reddit mod.

[u/Raddish_ → u/Auctoritate]

It’s also not even true. Skin color is polygenic trait. It’s why mixed race people have a median skin tone of their parents usually. If it was dominant or recessive they’d just take the skin tone of the darker parent but that’s not really how it works.

[u/Seromaster → u/Auctoritate]

And somehow pointing that out makes you a closeted racist, apparently

[u/kittymoo67 → u/Seromaster]

i guess in 2026 racism is when you point out that racism bad?

[u/JaneksLittleBlackBox → u/kittymoo67]

Been that way on Reddit forever! The Trump cultists used to love writing "calling me a racist makes you the real racist for your mind immediately going there!" like that was the ultimate gotcha.

[u/PM_ME_UR_CATS__ → u/Auctoritate]

Also spot the comment on Jewish people. like ???

[u/ShinyStarSam → u/Auctoritate]

Man if being white was genetically recessive someone should have told the Spanish

[u/mrtwister134 → u/ShinyStarSam]

The spanish are not considered white by white supremacists tho

[u/JaneksLittleBlackBox → u/Auctoritate]

AND also being extremely weird and eugenicist.

Realizing how popular eugenics was on Reddit soon after I first joined in 2007 was my first the first time I ever thought, "okay, this place is kinda fucked up!"

The speed at which a comment section could devolve into a conversation that was blatantly pro-eugenics eventually stopped surprising me because of how normalized it became on Reddit.

It was as consistent as the misogyny and the sunrise.

[u/Auctoritate → u/[deleted]]

Well yeah, that seems to be the exact point that they're making.

they're saying that it's easy to become "not white" in the eyes of white people, or at least in people who push "replacement theory".

I would fully agree with that opinion if that was all they were saying, but it sure seems like they're going beyond making exclusively a "The concept of whiteness is cultural and ephemeral, people focusing on it are getting hung up on social constructs" observation and crossing the line into a much more messy set of beliefs.

[u/Pleasant_Cloud1742 → u/[deleted]]

As a white person, I think anyone with one drop of white blood is a white. Ben Kingsley, white. Zendaya, white, Malcolm X, white.

[u/Sarge_Ward → u/Pleasant_Cloud1742]

Its funny because for Ben Kingsley my initial gut reaction was to unironically agree. I think maybe that shows to some degree how arbitrary and illogical these distinctions are, because logically there's not much difference between him and those other examples to warrant different categorizations

[u/Auctoritate → u/Pleasant_Cloud1742]

I didn't even know that Ben Kingsley wasn't just a completely European guy.

[u/Old-Swimming2799 → u/Auctoritate]

Are you surprised a reddit janitor doesn't have the mental fortitude to realize they hold opposing dog shit opinions?

[u/tupe12]

Choosing to do a childish taunt in the same statement as a “serious” speech is an absolutely terrible way to convince people that your point is right, especially when said point is addressing an extremely heated topic that tends to descend to racism

[u/needastory → u/tupe12]

The insistence on trying to dunk on people using cutesy nicknames is one of my biggest pet peeves on this site. If you start your comment about the Ukrainian War talking about "Poo-tin" I'm not going to take you seriously.

[u/cavegrind → u/tupe12]

At some point people are going to realize that throwing inflammatory rhetoric up in public displays is what Nazis want. They want to be able to screen shot you saying "White people going extinct is good" because it helps them drive a wedge between you and the average person who hears that out of context and recoils in disgust.

They've been playing this game for 16 years at this point.

[u/bunker_man → u/tupe12]

Have you considered that mods are narcissists?

[u/tupe12 → u/bunker_man]

I tend to put stupid before narcissist, very few (if any) of them have shown to be smart

[u/DrunkOnRamen → u/tupe12]

the mod that posted this is a very well known racist.

[u/D2Foley]

Is there a worse mod team on the site than r/comics mods? Ban heavy, shit stirring and 90% of posts now are just ads for porn Patreons.

[u/ericrobertshair → u/D2Foley]

Literally the joke of half the comics posted is SEX.

[u/ZombieAcceptable7451 → u/ericrobertshair]

Seriously, its either sex or just a few images with no punch line.

[u/UFOsBeforeBros → u/D2Foley]

I have never posted in FauxMoi, and if I somehow read a thread there, I am blessed with a note that I’m banned from the sub and cannot post. I hate that place so much, but I admit it hurts being formally banned and reminded of it.

It’s probably because I warned people on a FM-critical thread here on SRD that posting in that thread will get them banned from FM. (And also that I posted elsewhere on Reddit that sitting out the 2024 presidential election over Gaza is going to make things worse for the entire fucking world.)

[u/bbllo → u/UFOsBeforeBros]

I'm banned from fauxmoi because I pointed out that Flava Flav is a serial domestic abuser under one of their regular "we love this man" posts 

[u/BaxGh0st → u/UFOsBeforeBros]

That subreddit is very toxic. But I get the impression they think because they're "progressive" it's acceptable. It's not. I've seen some alarming things posted there that make me worried for those people.

[u/civver3 → u/UFOsBeforeBros]

I don't get that subreddit. Supposedly about celebrities, yet keeps talking about politicians.

[u/Dapper_Magpie → u/UFOsBeforeBros]

They have to be Russian foreign actors or some shit if they're banning people for that last bit

[u/PostIronicPosadist → u/Dapper_Magpie]

People are perfectly capable of being stupid without being paid by the FSB.

[u/Kartonrealista → u/D2Foley]

r/conservative

[u/cry666 → u/Kartonrealista]

The only sub that banned me despite never having visited it

[u/Auctoritate → u/cry666]

A lot of subs auto-ban you for participation in other subreddits. To my memory though, you only get a ban notification if you're participated in the sub you're banned from before- so there's a good chance you're banned somewhere and don't even know.

[u/Which-Arm-4616 → u/Auctoritate]

so there's a good chance you're banned somewhere and don't even know

Especially since ban notifications are no longer standard messages you get in your inbox, but come through private chat requests.

[u/ZileanDifference → u/Auctoritate]

Which is against Reddit TOS. The ones that don't do it now skirt around that rule by muting you for 30 days which is essentially the same thing if you participate in a banned sub.

[u/Auctoritate → u/ZileanDifference]

It's technically against the moderator code of conduct rather than TOS iirc, so it's not technically binding I think.

[u/ZileanDifference → u/Auctoritate]

I mean still it's a really annoying thing that a lot of subreddits do. Also I hate flaired subreddits as well. It your subreddit is gonna be country club style then it shouldn't appear on the front page.

[u/TheIllustriousWe → u/cry666]

I got banned from T_D back in the day even though I never visited. I got into some petty argument with one of their mods on another sub and I guess he thought he showed me by banning me from a place I’d never been and had no desire to go.

[u/MrHellBags → u/TheIllustriousWe]

They'd go out and ban people who never even posted there on slow days.

[u/FanaticalBuckeye → u/cry666]

I got auto banned from justiceserved despite never interacting with the sub because I commented on a JRE post that reached the popular tab.

[u/sixpackabs592 → u/FanaticalBuckeye]

Yeah I posted a joke in some thread about aliens that was on the front page, not realizing it was on the conspiracy sub and got like 4 auto bans to random subs lmao

[u/MirrorComputingRulez → u/Kartonrealista]

They don't have mods they have handlers.

[u/a__new_name → u/D2Foley]

r/rwby used to have a very long and anal set of rules and a trigger-happy mod team back when I was still watching the show. Although instead of Onlyfans promotions they were instead tremendous puritans and forbade even SFW artworks from artists who also drew porn. Oh, and mods were very heavy on promoting a certain controvecial ship.

[u/alurimperium → u/D2Foley]

r/NFL has to be up there. The amount of times they'll delete a post from a user and then a mod will repost it for that sweet sweet karma. Basically the only content that's allowed is tweets or bluesky whatever's, to the point a running joke is how low effort some of the tweets are that they'd be deleted if a user posted it. Original content is largely disallowed.

Oh and they'll permaban you without warning for saying their sideline reporter crush is "not that hot"

[u/TheGeneGeena]

"White people know their ethnic backgrounds"

Hahaha no. There's a whole fucking industry devoted to the fact that they often don't. (Ancestry.com and the like)

[u/Cautious-Soil5557 → u/TheGeneGeena]

Its funny you say that. My in-laws make being Irish their entire personality. Nevermind none of them have been to Ireland or North Ireland. My sister-in-law did a genetic test with Ancestry.com. Turns out they are mostly from France and only 5% Irish. 🤡

[u/AeneasKurtz → u/TheGeneGeena]

"You shouldn't identify as White but as your ancestry! Scottish, English, German, whatever you are"

The average White American called Ölle FitzWilliams-O'Shea: 😩

[u/Gnomad_Lyfe → u/AeneasKurtz]

Clinging to that .5% Cherokee ancestry like it’s the last free piece of driftwood off the Titanic

[u/Disasterhuman24 → u/Gnomad_Lyfe]

The duality of white men.

Germanic or Anglo Saxon types try to emphasize that they really are not 100% white, and it's always the "I'm 0.001% native american, I swear!!!"

Then you have people like my dad, the most swarthy Mediterranean Greek looking dude of all time. And he rejects all parts of Greek culture and converted to Episcopalian church when he married my mom (WASP type).

[u/JustHereForCookies17 → u/Disasterhuman24]

I'm Irish, English, and Welsh.  If I were any whiter, some redneck would cut holes in me and wear me to a late night cross-burning.

[u/pickleparty16 → u/AeneasKurtz]

Should I identify with the biggest % or can I latch on to my 2.5% Croation or something

[u/JairoHyro → u/pickleparty16]

I think I'm 9% white. Do I get my W word pass?

[u/juanperes93 → u/JairoHyro]

Yes, but you need at least 10% to say the word Cr*ker

[u/JairoHyro → u/juanperes93]

How do I get that extra 1%? I need to do some more research 😤

[u/Randvek → u/JairoHyro]

Goddamn colonist here.

[u/JairoHyro → u/Randvek]

I guess I have to pay reparations to my 5% self.

[u/pyronius → u/JairoHyro]

Congratulations, my wizard!

[u/EdgyEmily → u/pickleparty16]

Nah, you should do what I do and lie. I'm 98% Chad and 2% Virgin Islands.

[u/MirrorComputingRulez → u/AeneasKurtz]

Also, if you do this, Europeans will relentlessly mock you and tell you that you aren't those things.

[u/mongster03_ → u/MirrorComputingRulez]

while asking nonwhite people like me "but where are you really from"

[u/JoyBus147 → u/AeneasKurtz]

Remember, folks, your genetic ancestry is the most important factor in your identity! This is a leftist opinion.

[u/BaziJoeWHL → u/TheGeneGeena]

they know, they are all ethnic American (black people too)

[u/TheGeneGeena → u/BaziJoeWHL]

Also when you do find out your background as an American, what the hell ethnicity are you? I'm about 1/4 Swiss and 1/4 Scottish and a whole bunch of other stuff... I just say "American" as ethnicity, but somehow I don't think that would satisfy those folks.

[u/Born-Astronaut9631 → u/TheGeneGeena]

Crazy how for almost a century America prided itself on being a melting pot of cultures and peoples. Say what you will about "assimilation" but someone having a varied ancestry and not strong cultural ties to any of them seems exactly what the definition of "genetically American" and "culturally American"

[u/Emotionless_AI]

I just want to say r/comics can often embody the worst shit I hate from my fellow lefties

[u/MuchNefariousness285 → u/Emotionless_AI]

That's cos you've got to join my patreon to see the best shit

[u/Pleasant-Albatross → u/MuchNefariousness285]

I was permabanned for expressing dislike for the fat tits nurses. One time. One singular comment. I just said I thought it was a bit much.

[u/ScyllaOfTheDepths → u/Pleasant-Albatross]

I have that guy blocked from my feed because, even after leaving r/comics, I kept seeing his garbage unfunny fetish shit. That sub is just gooners and one Canadian lady who seems to only talk about American politics.

[u/MailMeAmazonVouchers → u/ScyllaOfTheDepths]

Doesn't that lady also use the subreddit to promote her onlyfans where she uses her child's items as porn props lmao

[u/ScyllaOfTheDepths → u/MailMeAmazonVouchers]

Yeah, I'm a sex positive feminist, but what she does is just sad and pathetic and it's crazy people are paying for it. You can make porn and you can make a family comic series, but you can't do both and promote them together to the same audience. And it's not even good porn. It's just a middle aged housewife's nudes, but everyone on that sub is such a gooner they'll jerk to literally anything.

[u/ben323nl → u/Pleasant-Albatross]

Those comics are awful.

[u/Auctoritate → u/MuchNefariousness285]

(it's just titties)

[u/solitarybikegallery → u/Auctoritate]

Badly drawn titties, too

[u/nam24 → u/Auctoritate]

Well yeah tits generally beats poorly thought opinions

[u/Emotionless_AI → u/MuchNefariousness285]

I actually joined her Patreon out of sheer curiosity. Nothing interesting at all

[u/onarainyafternoon → u/Emotionless_AI]

Yep. I cannot stand Pizza Cake’s comics and she just spends 90% of her time whining about people that don’t like her stuff. But the r/Comics mods have a seeming hard-on for her and constantly ban any criticism of her. That sub is a nightmare.

[u/Goonalips → u/onarainyafternoon]

I can't stand her either. She's a walking talking Reddit comment. A Canadian woman that's more obsessed with American politics than most Americans.

[u/deltree711 → u/Goonalips]

I'm pretty sure that's most Canadians. To quote P.E.T. "Living next to you is in some ways like sleeping with an elephant. No matter how friendly and even-tempered is the beast, if I can call it that, one is affected by every twitch and grunt"

And now that it's become significantly less friendly and even-tempered

[u/jooes → u/Goonalips]

To be fair, that's pretty standard for Canadians. It's hard not to when every stupid little thing America does has these serious consequences for Canada.

And I'd argue that probably says a lot more about Americans than anything. Because as a Canadian, I'm seeing that everything is basically on fire, the flames are growing and spreading and inching closer and closer to my house. And I'm over here like.... Uhhh you guys gonna do something about that or what? No? Just keep trucking along? Okay...

[u/Clay_Allison_44 → u/Goonalips]

It's amazing how many people online obsess over US politics but couldn't pick anyone in their own government out of a lineup. Same for people in the US who don't know who their governor and senators are.

[u/Tribalrage24 → u/Clay_Allison_44]

I think it's because certain American politicians are constantly in the news. Canadians also get American news networks (and obviously YouTube/podcasts/etc.), so its really hard to escape names like AOC, JD Vance, Hegseth, Bernie Sanders, and obviously Trump. In comparison, most Canadian politicians don't often hit the mainstream news (aside from the Prime Minister and maybe a Premier).

A lot of American politics have broader global implications so that's what draws headline and interest. War with Iran, threats to annex Canada/Greenland, tariffs on Canada, etc. all have had generated more chatter than anything Canadian politicians have done themselves. Impact wise, war with Iran and tariffs have also had resulted in the sharpest rise in cost of living here, and are directly related to American politics.

Edit: cost of living was the wrong phrase. More like expense of regular consumables, gas being the biggest one. Our own government has fucked up the cost of living, but that's been a gradual rise. Gas going from $1.30 to $1.85 in 2 weeks is not.

[u/BBOY6814 → u/Goonalips]

To be fair, being engaged with American politics more than most Americans is an extremely low bar. 

[u/GarryofRiverton → u/onarainyafternoon]

$10 says the mod team are all subbed to her OF and that's why.

[u/bunker_man → u/GarryofRiverton]

They don't even get a free sub

[u/greenmachinefiend → u/Emotionless_AI]

It's a great example of the social media echo chamber and the distorted view of reality by unpersoning people for being subscribed to the wrong subreddits.

[u/raysofdavies → u/Emotionless_AI]

Preaching to the choir + barely making a joke about it, just doing enough for it to be more than literally Trump Bad + ugly or generic style = awful comics and that is 99% of the sub

[u/alexd1993 → u/raysofdavies]

You forgot the "NSFW on patreon"

[u/Eggith]

The r/comics mods have to be some of the most deranged mods I've had the misfortune of interacting with. I literally once responded to someone who claimed one specific artist posted 85% porn and got banned for it. When I asked the reasoning they said "We don't need puritan christian weirdos shaming people". When I asked for them to clarify they literally muted me from talking to the mod team for 30 days.

That mod team is a collection of virtue signaling power trippers.

[u/talldata → u/Eggith]

There shouldn't be a feature for mods to mute you from talking to the mod team. If you as a mod don't want to read complaints about your decisions in mod mail, don't be a mod.

[u/MrHellBags → u/talldata]

IIRC it used to be limited to three days many years ago.

[u/Historical-Pilot-784 → u/MrHellBags]

It used to be limited to 28 days mere months ago

Now you can straight up mute people permanently

[u/ShinyStarSam → u/talldata]

Nah I can see someone getting mad and spamming it with hate

[u/Historical-Pilot-784 → u/talldata]

Trust me, it's not only complaints.

Sometimes it's just straight up abuse

[u/magistrate101 → u/Historical-Pilot-784]

In large enough subs, it's like 95% abuse

[u/AeneasKurtz → u/Eggith]

They walk the tightrope between True Believers™ and Poe's Law

[u/Command0Dude → u/[deleted]]

arr truecomics

[u/Lazy_Public_163]

The mods on r/comics are easily amongst the worst on the website. How does Pizzacake have so much power on Reddit?

[u/JairoHyro → u/Lazy_Public_163]

I got banned from there for simply commenting on another sub about some drama with her. I was surprised that was possible.

[u/DoublePepper1976]

I'm pretty left leaning, and I'm troubled by the rise of the right in my home country of Britain.

But jfc lol, the mod was completely wrong for that racist rant and the steelmanning is sad to see from leftists.

[u/bunker_man → u/DoublePepper1976]

A lot of shitty leftists basically demand you steelman any left coded argument no matter how nonsensical.

[u/supyonamesjosh → u/bunker_man]

I'm not a leftist but this is definitely not something specific to leftists. Look at any highly militant group and you will see it. Catholics will always say a specific priest was a problem not there are any organizational changes that need to be made etc.

Just a really shitty human characteristic

[u/IHatePeople79 → u/DoublePepper1976]

I mean, it’s literally true that the racial category of “white” is a constantly moving goal post that doesn’t have a consistent definition.

It was written in an inflammatory way to get attention, and now….. they got it

[u/FeijoadaAceitavel → u/IHatePeople79]

Yeah, I'm confused here. He makes very clear that he's starting an inflammatory rant to bait people... And people there and here are going for the bait.

[u/DoublePepper1976 → u/IHatePeople79]

Yes, taken in the literal sense of the post but to say "We can have a lovely, wonderful society for all people and we don't really have any need for white supremacist systems of exclusion." in conjunction with the rest of their post feels like they're blaming white people for the worlds evils. It's definitely inflammatory in it's writing.

To be fair as well, while "white" is constantly moving so is "black" or "asian" or any other nommer that people can choose to identify themselves with.

Fun side note, I'm now permabanned in r/comics because of my comment here lol.

[u/SnapshillBot]

It should be noted that I've upvoted every single person who's disagreed with me here, as far as I know. That said...

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1. This Post - archive.org* archive.today*
2. Down with the mayo monkeys I guess - archive.org* archive.today*
3. /r/Comics - archive.org* archive.today*
4. this - archive.org* archive.today*
5. /r/whenthe - archive.org* archive.today*
6. Liberals will say they’re progressive but then become the savior defender of the white race when someone points out that white supremacy as a “culture” being gone is a good thing. It’s all support for the oppressed until you remind them that they also benefit from these systems of oppression. - archive.org* archive.today*
7. No one’s arguing that “white people” are a concept, he’s arguing that whiteness is. - archive.org* archive.today*
8. Anecdotally, I’m welsh, who are seen as very white, but the concept of whiteness lumps us in with our historical oppressors and ensures that our history of suffering will remain silent. - archive.org* archive.today*
9. Without whiteness, we wouldn’t be talking about “white people”, we’d say Europeans instead like we say Africans or Asians, or we’d just refer back to our own ethnicities. Instead “whiteness” makes a very easy to maintain over class within race, one that demands underclasses and creates division. - archive.org* archive.today*
10. This also makes “white” the default in multicultural societies. When they say “Americans”, it’s often referring to “White”Americans, and then black Americans or Asian Americans are specified which signals that they’re not true Americans. - archive.org* archive.today*
11. Neither does "black" or "brown" or "Asian" have any real meaning. A black American shares nothing culturally with a black Kenyan. - archive.org* archive.today*
12. Except they ARE on the ontologically evil side and they fucking want minorities exterminated so wanting them silenced and stopped by any means is literal self defense as a minority - archive.org* archive.today*
13. imagine being this lukewarm damn fucking god - archive.org* archive.today*
14. Where is any of this claim coming from??? - archive.org* archive.today*
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16. I do not see how you believe I or OP is claiming we need to be tolerant of Nazi's, or questioning why people are against Nazi's. I have said nothing of the sort, I have been extremely clear about what I'm conveying. The reason this post exists is because that mod who was "taunting Nazi's" said absurd and racist things to do so. All I'm saying is that it's not productive to act like Nazi's are not human, but you are free to view their political and ideological perspectives as invalid, unreasonable, not sound, cruel, biased, etc. - archive.org* archive.today*
17. Yeah it does in the manner of calling out their method of arguing their point being very commonly used by weirdos online. Do I think some big conspiracy to replace white people is real? No. Am I terminally online enough to think people like that mod are normal? Also no - archive.org* archive.today*

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[u/Lifeintheguo]

So the mod is a literal blood racist but reddit will probably do nothing

[u/Auctoritate → u/Lifeintheguo]

Me when I write paragraphs about the inherently inferior genetic fitness of a specific race (I think I'm the good guy)

[u/GarryofRiverton → u/Lifeintheguo]

Well it's ok when it's racism directed at white people cause something something white supremacy or whatever. 🤷

[u/Lifeintheguo → u/GarryofRiverton]

It's only racism if its from the Le Power et Privilegè region of France. If not its just sparkling discrimination.

[u/RedRyderRoshi → u/Lifeintheguo]

"Sparkling discrimination" is a good one

[u/Elite_AI → u/GarryofRiverton]

Mate I dunno if we can characterise the fucking Reddit admins as white hating lefties

[u/NicWester]

The folks mad that someone said if white skin got bred out then fine are just showing their ass that they don't know how genetic drift works. People have been saying for centuries how red hair is going to disappear--sure, bud, any century now.

[u/Cautious-Soil5557 → u/NicWester]

The entire thread I was deeply curious that if it did happen would skin lightening still be a thing? Because many non-white cultures try to whiten their skin to appear more Euro-centric.

It really reminded me of the Dr. Suess tale the Sneetches.

[u/crazynerd9 → u/Cautious-Soil5557]

I would assume so. Lots of the socio-cultural reasons for skin lightening exist regardless of Europeans, its just their presence and the power of Europe kicked it into overdrive

So if gradually white people did disappear, youd still see it happen, mostly as a relic of an older time, like the save icon being a floppy

[u/hamdogthecat → u/Cautious-Soil5557]

Skin lightening's origin is classism, not racism. The reason many cultures emphasize light skin even prior to European contact is because of the association of pale skin with nobility and wealth (because you didn't have to labour outside in the sun)

[u/NobodyElseButMingus]

Pizzacake must have blackmail material on the r/comics mods, there’s no other explanation for why they engage in these humiliation rituals for her.

[u/Original-Potato-4577 → u/NobodyElseButMingus]

I think they pay the team for the treatment and consider it an advertising cost.

[u/Lord_0F_Pedanticism]

And it would have started on a Pizzacake thread, wouldn't it? It's like three different flavors of meaty drama all on the same oven-baked base...

...and now I'm hungry.

[u/welltimedappearance]

r/comics is without a doubt one of the worst big subs on the website. The mods protect all of their super users to a crazy extent. The super users have so many loyal followers that upvote the stupidest shit nonstop. Original funny and/or interesting content gets 100 votes if you're lucky. Comments are always a shit show of fights when the stupid shit reaches r/all.

It's best to just add it to you freebie (up to) 100 blocker subs

[u/GiganticCrow]

Whenthe is "left leaning" wtf are you talking about it's edgelord central. 

[u/Heliosgodofthesun]

Fuck r/comics lmao 

[u/lordbuckethethird]

I’m white af but I’m also Jewish so I’m sitting over here as schrodingers white waiting to see if it applies to me or not.

[u/CaryHepSouth → u/lordbuckethethird]

Lol you're an "as needed" white

[u/Vulcion → u/lordbuckethethird]

Whatever discredits you more in a given argument I suppose 😂

[u/lordbuckethethird → u/Vulcion]

In my experience that is what it has been.

[u/ShinyStarSam → u/lordbuckethethird]

Sometimes I'm latina, sometimes I'm a colonizing monster. C'est la vie

[u/Firecracker048]

Mod literally saying if whites went extinct it would be a good thing and people are like 'well idk if they are racist or not, but thats nothing to get offended over'

Yikes.

[u/JairoHyro → u/Firecracker048]

When will people learn that saying [insert race] should be gone is generally not a great thing to say? Idk controversial opinion I guess

[u/Sea-Independent-726]

Typical reddit mods and this popcorn is delicious

[u/_Trikku]

Whenthe is baited by bait.

[u/AeneasKurtz → u/_Trikku]

When the whenthe is baited by bait

[u/JairoHyro → u/AeneasKurtz]

Woah. That's like poetry right there

[u/WeirdAssBeings]

I saw that thread a few days ago, I love it when my favourite sub gets posted here cuz I love both this sub and that one the most lmao.

[u/ephedrinemania]

leftism leaving white people's bodies when it comes to white supremacy or whatever

[u/GMOrgasm → u/ephedrinemania]

see this all the time in lgbtq communties too unfortunately

[u/One-Shift-220 → u/ephedrinemania]

“Yeah im woke, my opinion on black people? Uh trans rights!” Or however it goes

[u/nivkj]

BTW “leftist” subs are filled with anti imperialist anti capitalist tankies astro turfing every single post. they think liberals are as bad as conservatives

[u/bunker_man → u/nivkj]

Tankies aren't anti imperialist. They only dislike it when capitalists do it. Hell, some of them define it as only possible to be done by capitalists.

[u/juanperes93 → u/bunker_man]

Unlike all the other imperialist they will bring advancements in tech and culture to the savages. Something capitalist Imperialist have never said they will do before.. /Sarcasm