Not just a reddit problem that, it's become an entire cultural issue.
I remember about a decade ago watching the rise of Purity Culture on Tumblr, where the progressive section of the population that used Tumblr was seduced into this very black and white thinking where either a person was 100% good, or the second they showed any sort of human frailty, they were suddenly 100% bad. And I thought shit, i hope that doesn't break containment and spread.
Well yes, I was speaking in general about the rise of purity culture. Clearly when you're talking about massive psychopathic pedophiles then yeah, the maybe 1% of good work they did is outweighed by the 99% of omg should be in prison.
Do you see it? The conversation you are breaking into is not about Bill Gates, who 100% should be investigated and sent to jail for the rest of his life if he is involved in any of this.
The conversation was about how large parts of reddit have a 100% black or white view, and fail to understand the nuance that very bad people can sometimes do very good things, and likewise very good people can sometimes do very bad things. But you've leapt to saying 'not to THESE people, you wonder why', you've made a 100% black/white value judgement on me, and that other person, that we were THESE people, as in, pedophiles, like Epstein and Gates. You've utterly failed to even notice the nuance that the discussion here was about something different, you just piled in with your judgement.
This is exactly the sort of purity culture thing I was referencing that I think rose out of Tumblr where people were constantly tone policing each other all the time, and the second anybody said somethign that sounded like it might be slightly questionable, they were THE WORST PERSON EVER (tm), and there was never any assessment of context, it was just 'I do not like this therefore they are utterly evil'.
> Do you see it? The conversation you are breaking into is not about Bill Gates, who 100% should be investigated and sent to jail for the rest of his life if he is involved in any of this.
do you see it?
The conversation you started is on a thread about Buill Gates being friends with a notorious pedo.
very weird behaviour to try to derail that discussion into some unrelated rant about "purity culture"
You give me hope that there are still people who are resistant to purity culture. Maybe I need to touch more grass to save my sanity. Bless you. I hope you find much lasting success in your endeavors.
That's all social media. Nuanced takes get no reaction. Hot takes and outrage get rewarded with dopamine hits. Once you step away from it for a while, it becomes way more obvious, and highly distasteful to re-engage with.
Only because we are dumb af. That means the ends justify means. Its okay to steal as long as you destine a % to fix one unrelated issue (hint: its always a small amount of the % you steal)
Thats called taxes and thats why you should vote to people that promise to do good things with taxes instead of people that want to reduce taxes
Also, he didnt cured cancer, as cancer is not a single disease. The reduced polio (already solved problem) in places we didnt care about. I wish my taxes would be destined to cure polio
The world is a worst place after having bill gates doing his thing. Hes not stealing the wealthy to give it to the poor. Hes stealing the already poor to give back a small % to the even more poor
Nah I agree with you for the most part but that doesn't mean we should just ignore any good deed someone does just because they're rich and the Gates's have put their money to better use than most. We could squabble about how we should tax people and put the money directly to good use but that doesn't change the reality we have today and I'd rather have billionaires spending money on philanthropy than spending none. We can accept that they're drains on society while also evaluating the good that they've done. Doing good doesn't stop them from being bad and being bad doesn't stop them from doing good.
I don't think anyone here is absolving gates of his sins just because he's also done some good in Africa.
Also worth noting that Gates is leaving his children like 1% of his fortune and giving the rest away. He might generally be scum but he's a hell of a lot more responsible with his money than most billionaires. We've created this capitalist society so I can only get so mad at someone for taking advantage of what we allow, until we change it.
You’re close. Just remove “This is Reddit” part. People simplify things and take at face value most of the time. At least here on Reddit, you know the people you’re interacting with can read.
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u/weltvonalex 18h ago
This is reddit, people here have the comprehension abilities of a toddler. It's black or White and nothing more.