There was once a reddit alternative, namely voat, that started normal and became the most alt right incel qanon thing imaginable.
Here’s a dataset with voat data and posts
https://arxiv.org/pdf/2201.05933v1
It’s also used by Americans generally in the NorthEast of the USA. Hell, your most popular baseball team (based out of New York City) is named them.
I don’t know a single Newfie who would be upset calling them a Newfie. I’m Canadian. Do you think I’d take offence to being called a Canuck? That’s generally used for Western Canadians. I life in Nova Scotia. I couldn’t care less because I’m not 10-ply soft.
Their tolerance of racism and bigotry was why I left
It seemed like every shitty person wanted to make it a far-right safe place
I’m glad it failed
There was once a reddit alternative, namely voat, that started normal and became the most alt right incel qanon thing imaginable. Here’s a dataset with voat data and posts https://arxiv.org/pdf/2201.05933v1
those were the bots
I had interactions with a few, and they were very much the typical, stupid, bigoted yank
it’s crazy how you used the word bigoted and a slur in the same sentence.
Where’s the slur?
yank is short for Yankee, which was a slur used for Americans during the revolutionary war.
It’s also used by Americans generally in the NorthEast of the USA. Hell, your most popular baseball team (based out of New York City) is named them.
I don’t know a single Newfie who would be upset calling them a Newfie. I’m Canadian. Do you think I’d take offence to being called a Canuck? That’s generally used for Western Canadians. I life in Nova Scotia. I couldn’t care less because I’m not 10-ply soft.
by that logic it’s “ok” to call black people “removeds” because some of them call each other that sometimes, as a term of endearment.
is that what you’re saying?
a slur is a slur because of the derogatory context. the original comment implied that “yanks” are bigoted, which in itself is bigoted.
edit: it’s crazy that word is blocked but not any of the others…
Now you’re getting the point. Because Yank isn’t a slur.
It’s crazy how little I value your opinion
you valued my opinion enough to respond. I’d say that’s enough.