“But people feel the need to weigh in.”Ĭritics accused the moderators of racism for lumping together white users with disparate opinions on issues like police violence and systemic racism, of shutting down debate, of retreating to “a giant echo chamber.” “Yeah, I get it, I’ll never understand what it’s like to be black,” wrote the user bobbymcprescott, “but removing a non-racist comment because I’m white is just childish.” “If they could say, ‘I’m just going to let this conversation rock without me,’ the system wouldn’t be needed,” said Wesley Moreno, the only moderator who allowed me to use his name. Mainly, though, it was meant to combat what one called the “subtle expression of privilege” that led to white voices dominating discussions in a subreddit devoted to humor and commentary about black life. It would also, they hoped, make it harder for white users to pass themselves off as black, a practice they believed was not uncommon. They told me the policy arose partly from complaints that black users had raised over comments that routinely characterized racial inequality as natural, nonexistent or the fault of black Americans. With nearly four million subscribers, Black People Twitter is one of the few large, public online discussion forums about black American life, and its moderators had instituted a policy that was drawing criticism from Reddit users across the political spectrum: On heated threads, they had announced, participation of white users would be limited.Īs part of an ongoing effort by The Times’s National desk to explore how technology is shaping our interactions around race, and vice versa, I reached out to the subreddit’s moderators - using, at first, various forms of text messages.
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Nor could I be sure I wasn’t falling for a devious scheme by the subreddit’s volunteer moderators to certify white users as black. Few users of the one I was writing about, Black People Twitter, would disclose their real names, so I couldn’t search the web for a picture.
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Reddit is home to thousands of topic-based communities, or “subreddits,” where privacy is held sacrosanct and pseudonyms are the norm.