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Reddit calling their users terrorists? And they wonder why all their userbase are leaving in doves.

I personally left because it became highly approved / encouraged to call Ellen Pao a cunt every other post followed by all manner of racist bullshit. Lo-and-behold, the idiot neoreactionary mob was wrong again and Ellen was trying to protect the reddit culture, but there will be no apology, they'll just move on to the next faux-outrage that justifies their intense racism and misogyny.

When thinly veiled stormfront posts regularly make it to the front page of your forum, it's time to jump ship and watch the burning mess from afar.

People where mad at her because she obviously is a scammer, along with her husband.

Her rap sheet and her actions were the things that brought her animosity from the users. I do not support the view that it was because reddit users obviously hate women, all women and since Pao is a woman, they must hate her too.

I think that position is inane.

So, that gives people a free pass to be misogynists and racists? Okay, that's good to know. /s

Everyone with an opinion is a racist, rapist, misogynist nowadays.

I think a big tell here is that when someone is talking about a certain subset of the reddit userbase that acts in a certain way, that if one reads that and thinks the person was talking about everyone on reddit, then one may actually fall within the subset under discussion.

Then maybe I'm a misogynist.

Her rap sheet? Obviously a scammer? Why is everything so dramatic?

Neither accusation had any bearing on her management of Reddit, and both are highly spurious. As far as I can tell, the entirety of the complaints against her are that her husbands hedge fund blew up and that she sued KPCB.. I'm glad that a mob of Internet trolls knows exactly what happened in both cases.

Have you actually read the Kleiner transcripts? She had better performance than many of her peers, faced actual harassment from senior partners but it didn't meet the threshold that the courts demand for her suit, so she lost. It was probably a good decision from the courts and she negotiated a settlement for not appealing -- this happens all the time.

I have no idea how any of this justifies literally thousands of people calling her racist and misogynist names.. And then having everyone of those comments upvoted to the hundreds or thousands of points. Talk about inane.

That's as far as you can tell. You are entitled to your opinion. If you opinion is that she was right in her lawsuit, that's fine. But the opinion a big part of redditors is that she made a frivolous lawsuit to cover the losses from her husband's scam. This is partially validated by the fact that the jury did not believe her claims.

It doesn't matter whether you think your opinion of her is the right one. I'm explaining to you that the reason why redditors hate her is not simply because she has a vagina and redditors hate all women.

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