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I Saw the Devil
I just swore off the DMC section of reddit. With JYB replacing Reuben Langdon there's been this whole thing where people have been chastising Langdon for his views. It started with the vaccine and moved on to transphobia. I don't know if any of it is true nor do I care. Political and personal stances are to each their own. I've only spoke to Langdon online so I have no horse in this race but if I knew he'd say something I don't agree with I would stand for his right to speech and his opinion. Even if I don't agree with it I believe in his right to have it.
I saw conversations where people were getting very vicious about their opinions and just moved on to other threads. Things took a turn when I was trying to post on a thread about Langdon deserving respect because of what he's done for the series and before I clicked my response the new mod had locked the thread. I didn't know the mod had left a response because I just clicked away; not until just a little bit ago when I saw someone posted a pic of it on another thread and the new mod basically said that Langdon's opinions were dangerous and anyone with wrong thinking opinions wasn't welcome. Specifically, homophobes, transphones, anti-vaxers and MEGA weren't welcome there. Honestly, I thought it was fake but I found the original and it's what they said and I've seen this rhetoric before. Basically, to them these are interchangeable and all equally grievous.
Said mod posted another response on a different thread they locked, too, which was made them come off as more reasonable and, frankly, should've been the first one, but since they made their stance that those who wrong think can f'*k right off first I decided to leave that page. I didn't delete my account since I only really post on the Criterion page but I can see the painting on the wall and I'm just going to abandon ship. I wasn't the only one. A lot of people just left, too, but they went by giving the place the middle finger.
One thing that sealed the deal for me what that on the second post I saw from the new mod they point out that the first and last rule of the page specifically state no bigotry and no politics. When the first thing I see from this person is an obviously political and even hateful post towards a huge subset of the nation they specified they lived it I know I'm better off leaving. If I have to specify my diversity points just to have value in my opinion, which they did, then that place is not worth being in.
And people warned me that reddit was garbage, too. I've had good experienced there, too, so I'll just go to the pages where this isn't an issue. Why can't we have nice things?
I saw conversations where people were getting very vicious about their opinions and just moved on to other threads. Things took a turn when I was trying to post on a thread about Langdon deserving respect because of what he's done for the series and before I clicked my response the new mod had locked the thread. I didn't know the mod had left a response because I just clicked away; not until just a little bit ago when I saw someone posted a pic of it on another thread and the new mod basically said that Langdon's opinions were dangerous and anyone with wrong thinking opinions wasn't welcome. Specifically, homophobes, transphones, anti-vaxers and MEGA weren't welcome there. Honestly, I thought it was fake but I found the original and it's what they said and I've seen this rhetoric before. Basically, to them these are interchangeable and all equally grievous.
Said mod posted another response on a different thread they locked, too, which was made them come off as more reasonable and, frankly, should've been the first one, but since they made their stance that those who wrong think can f'*k right off first I decided to leave that page. I didn't delete my account since I only really post on the Criterion page but I can see the painting on the wall and I'm just going to abandon ship. I wasn't the only one. A lot of people just left, too, but they went by giving the place the middle finger.
One thing that sealed the deal for me what that on the second post I saw from the new mod they point out that the first and last rule of the page specifically state no bigotry and no politics. When the first thing I see from this person is an obviously political and even hateful post towards a huge subset of the nation they specified they lived it I know I'm better off leaving. If I have to specify my diversity points just to have value in my opinion, which they did, then that place is not worth being in.
And people warned me that reddit was garbage, too. I've had good experienced there, too, so I'll just go to the pages where this isn't an issue. Why can't we have nice things?
