SJWs now turn to a new meme: "Grow Up" (Reddit-related)

But not from reddit!

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This is Reddit’s political reality: an aristocracy of the crass. Conde Nast, Y-Combinator, Snoop Dogg, Alexis Ohanian—all the people who’ve built and invested in Reddit are just figureheads and potential TechCrunch Disrupt panelists; emperors to the toxic praetorian guard of the men’s rights-Gamergate axis.

To this increasingly vocal coterie, anything resembling compromise away from adolescent male white mores is seen as the fascistic social justice agenda. Never mind that no one is being asked to do anything more than grow up: fricking grow up, you don’t really need giant jiggling breasts in your Xbox games. fricking grow up, it’s obnoxious, boring and lazy to make fun of obese strangers. And fricking grow up: if you have to go 4chan to make the same stale jokes about the holocaust, you are no less free than you were the day before.

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oh fyi, this is all about the reddit CEO stepping down after fricking shite the frick up

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To the site’s super-dedicated core, an overwhelmingly male group of very vocal power-users whose understanding of progressive politics is limited to the idea that their pirated ecchi torrents have just as much a right to bandwidth as Netflix, few things are more offensive than being told what to do by a woman. And when harassment was banned and their fat-hating subreddit was shut down, they plugged their ears and screamed and stomped and spammed swastikas until they got their way. (It obviously didn’t hurt that their way also happened to align with the interests of the site’s founders.)

So Ellen Pao’s first mistake might have been thinking she could ever actually lead Reddit. But Reddit can’t even be governed by the white guys who founded it, let alone by an Asian American woman who’d fought a highly public court battle over gender discrimination. The truth is that no one can run Reddit, because Reddit already has a boss: A organized, malignant band of the adolescent and adolescent-at-heart, ready to topple any would-be savior who attempts to clean house.

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for shits and giggles, let's look at the last line of the first quote: if you have to go 4chan to make the same stale jokes about the holocaust, you are no less free than you were the day before

doesn't teh same logic apply to gay couples who go to a bakery who refuses to bake a cake for them? just as you're free to engage in commerce found offensive by the property owner providing goods/services, you're free to engage in your commerce found offensive by the property owner providing a forum for discussion online. this isn't an issue of freedom; it's an issue of substitution

now if you disagree with the gay/bakery case then that's fine. you're free to. but by that logic reddit users shoudl be free to disagree with the choices and regulations of reddit's ownership and management. same exact concept.