On a private subreddit, former BlackPeopleTwitter mod mach-2 calls out the SRD mods for their personal and political affiliations, including perceived reactionary tendencies.
Please note that, as this is a private sub from which I'm leaking, all of this had to be screencapped, cropped, and in some cases sloppily stitched together in order to make the whole thing coherent and digestible. This was a 500+ comment beast with many instances of "continue this thread". As such, I chose not to document the whole thing -- that would've been impossible. Instead, I trimmed the fat by collapsing irrelevant comment threads and omitting entire chains, leaving only the drama. Now onto the good stuff.
Setting: r/blank (I don't want to reveal the subreddit name) is a private chat sub for metaredditors. It has a pronounced left-wing bent. Most of the time, however, it is quite peaceful and civil.
This whole thing started when mach-2 joins in on an airing of grievances having to do with TAKEitTOrCIRCLEJERK's behavior in this thread. The users appear to have found him overly sympathetic to the admin's hands-off treatment of hate subreddits, and express disapproval of his attitudes and behavior more generally.
mach-2 writes:
[His whole mod team is TIA and r/drama angry white reactionaries 3 of who I know were gamergaters in its prime. The fuck are you expecting from SRD?](http://i.imgur.com/BGmPyav.png)
[The only mod on there who has some sense is u/theladyeve . Other than that, the rest of them are just white 20 something kids surprised that their reactionary buddies joined the alt right.](http://i.imgur.com/BGmPyav.png)
Snallygaster was bitching about this same thing the other day.
To which TiT's replies:
you could have the decency to ping me so I can defend myself! This is hurtful!
mach seizes upon TiT's invitation, doing just that.
He writes a call-out post, outlining his beef with the SRD mods (many of whom, it should be mentioned, also mod r/blank)
[I said all your mods are white 20 something year olds. The only sensible mod being u/TheLadyeve in some respects. The rest are all reactionary white kids. Yeah I know u/bethlooker(?) is Latina. Other than that, you've modded gamergate enthusiasts and drama shit heads and are surprised when you have motherfuckers like u/freet0 running rampant spewing sam harris IQ differences shit in your SRD threads.](http://i.imgur.com/xVCbCio.png)
Seriously...
Our society is going to have to grapple with these differences in IQ someday and the longer we wait the more it's going to hurt.
So lets go. You're a mod here so you can remove this thread if you want.
Also oxus00, soulshot,hammer_of_truthiness were all gamergators which I would hope we can agree was the prefix to the alt-right bollocks we know today.
Then there's the list of motherfuckers like...
snallygaster
zachums
phedre
and elfa82
who spend their days memeing with neo-nazis on r/drama while pretending to be doing it for the lulz.
So please again, how the fuck have I mischaracterized you and your sub?
EDIT: u/T_Dumbsford mods r/googletown with neonazis on reddit like drapetomania . Ask him why since he is also a mod of this sub. Ask him why he banned me as well for pointing it out
From there it's off to the races. There's a ton to go through, so I'll keep descriptions brief.
riemann derides mach for taking the internet too seriously, mach calls him a "white boy" in retort
One user expresses reservations about the claim that Oxus is a gamergator. Oxus responds to those accusations here.
mach's former BPT co-mod DubTeeDub shows some exasperation when he asks
mach responds by decrying the present state of BPT as a minstrel show and telling Oxus to go fuck himself (the first of many).
With his tongue placed firmly in his cheek, Oxus points out that his wife is Jewish and that he runs a women's self defense workshop for free. mach simply responds by saying
Nah, you're just a fucking douche bag who just used his wife as a political bludgeon. You're fucking disgusting fam Jesus.
and continues to disparage Oxus's progressive credentials (or 'progdentials').
Next comes the big daddy, in which 3 SRD mods respond to mach's charges all in one single comment chain
TiTs finally gets a word in edgewise, saying
mach, though, is not buying it, coming back with
Only white people interact and shuck and jive with nazis. Sorry, I don't give a fuck what their "actual beliefs" are . As long as nazism is not a deal breaker, that's clear enough for me.
Having waited patiently in the wings, InOranAsElsewhere gets his time to shine, calling attention to the fact that he is a "literal communist"
Once again, mach proves an inveterate skeptic and brings up Oran's former stint as a TiA mod and his current, albeit inactive, mod status on TiADiscussion. This all leads mach to the conclusion that Oran is functionally a centrist (paraphrasing) and ends on an accusation of "white fragility".
Oxus, always up for more punishment, has another go in the ring with mach, but is unable to keep the accusations of rightism at bay (some self-defense instructor, smh)
Lol, I'm glad you're in my brain and know my beliefs. If you compared how we spend our lives day to day you may start to feel a little ashamed of yourself brother. Assuming you can feel shame.
Nah bruv. Wear your rightwing bullshit on your sleeve. You can lie to your white mods and meme all you want but we both know you're not left wing. You came to menslib and went to SRD to bitch about not being allowed to bash feminism to your liking. This was less than a year ago. You were a gamergater two years ago. I don't know to what degree right now. You still bitch about SJW day in day out with your nazi buddies on r/drama. In other words, fuck outta my face.
Finally, Scopies seems bemused at mach's metareddit J'accuse.
Posted Jul 16, 2017, 1:32 PM UTC