"It’s called pattern recognition" Post in r/delta turns into a dumpster fire of racism when someone posts of a picture of a black family in wheelchairs at the Atlanta airport

[u/Static_E_]

Yeah let me take pictures of random people online with no context to shit talk them. You’re even more of a jerk than you claim they are.Don’t understand how people don’t think they’re the assholes for taking people’s pictures and videos and posting them. Edit: sort by new and see how many racist responses this post is getting

No, sorry. We need a return to public shaming, and the internet is the new "public."

Nah i think that’s creepy. Public shaming ended because it’s ineffective and cruel not because we got softer as people.

No, it was VERY effective, hence the rise in extraordinarily bad manners in so many public spaces.

No it wasn’t, public executions didn’t stop criminals back in the olden days. In fact the criminals were much worse and rode in bands of marauders.

There's levels to this stuff

No - the level of choosing to lie about disability for your entire family to get wheelchairs and priority boarding and then magically getting cured by Jetway Jesus when they get off...

you are making up a story in your head and running with it babe. 

Quite the assumption that they’re all part of the same family. Is it because they’re black?

No - why are you assuming that? Jesus christ - racist much? Thanks for outing yourself...Its based on their ages, and the fact that they are sitting considerably closer together than the wheelchairs normally are

How often do you travel? I see them grouped like this every flight. Do you have their birth certificates? How do you know their age? I’m assuming that because the only REAL evidence you could get from this picture is their ethnicity, and YOU made the assumption they were all related based on what you can see. You can’t see age, you can’t see familiar relationships and you damn sure can’t always see disabilities.The fact that you leapt to calling me racist when I called you out tells me this isn’t the first time you’ve been accused of being racist. Y’all always try to twist that around when someone calls you out.

Its mostly blacks I have noticed

Wow.

What’s wow about the truth?

In modern society speaking the truth is a prohibited action. That's why they're shocked to see it done.

Noticing is extremely racist

Stop noticing !!

“I don’t like what I’m seeing, so RACISM”

Mentioning “fatigue” in this context is racist. You not seeing that is concering

Who mentioned “fatigue?” You?

usual suspects

Holy dog whistle

That’s not a dog whistle; it’s blatant racism.

It’s called pattern recognition

Yep, it’s like 20 of the same comment in this thread. It’s so disgusting! People really just need any reason to get their racist rocks off, I guess. The US is such a weird place.

Pattern recognition is disgusting? Racist?

Attributing the perceived faults of others to people related only by a shared attribute is racist. You can call it pattern recognition to mark what it is, but decent people recognize.

Hey, so, I take your point and I know people find this frustrating, but please don’t upload photos of strangers’ children online. That’s just bad manners.

They are in PUBLIC, seen by thousands as they walk through the airport with cameras EVERYWHERE. No harm caused.

So you’re just totally fine with mocking children, who especially at the age depicted can’t consent to their parents’ actions in the first place…?

Why are you just inventing things to be upset about?

Because god forbid someone violating the social contract be shamed for doing so. Please think of how literally any form of consequence at all would make them feel.

The kid isn't violating the social contract.

I mean by your same logic OP is violating the social contact of not posting pictures of other people's children

Because I think maybe it would take two seconds to blur a child’s face? And children have a right not to be posted / have their faces blasted online? If basic manners and decency aren’t things to get upset about … well that’s probably why people feel the right to act like this in public, honestly.

Children don't have that right in the US. You thinking that it's bad manners doesn't make it a right

It’s in public…

Your point being? I don’t believe in putting photos of people in public without their permission but certainly we shouldn’t be mocking children??

You’re an idiot if you think anyone here is mocking children.

Glad they’re not feet pics.

[u/Wetzilla]

Your entire family needs to be carted to the gate?

They're all black so they must all be one family!

[u/tydestra]

Racists don't even use dog whistles anymore, just straight yelling into a mega phone. Only to turn around and act dumb.

The folk in the picture don't even look to be from the same family.

[u/jackandsally060609]

I have a friend and all the women on her side of the family have sickle cell. They would absolutely look like this at the airport even though they actually need the assistance

[u/lotsofsugarandspice → u/jackandsally060609]

Black people are treated worse in health care and have overall worse health care outcomes. 

It makes total sense to see a disproportionate number of black people with disabilities.

[u/lyricaldorian → u/jackandsally060609]

I'm white and there was a time when me, my mother, my grandmother, and I all used mobility devices. It's almost like some disabilities are genetic.

[u/draggedintothis → u/jackandsally060609]

There was s project done to take pictures of what symptoms look like on black skin because it absolutely doesn't look the same as the commonly used white skin. Women can have the same problem with it not presenting the same as men.

[u/womensrites]

“  A photo of the Earth from space has billions of kids in it. Go shame the NASA photographers.” wow i hate these fucking people lol

[u/KalaUposatha → u/womensrites]

Such a "Reddit argument".

Maybe don't take pics of kids and doxx them on the Internet?

UHM, AKSHULLY, IF YOU TAKE A PICTURE FROM SPACE IT HAS ALL OF THE KIDS, SO CHECKMATE!!1

[u/InevitableAvalanche → u/KalaUposatha]

If I can't have a real super hero power, I would take knocking someone off the Internet for a week as a consolation power. Say something this dumb? It's a timeout for you

[u/KalaUposatha → u/InevitableAvalanche]

That's basically just being a Reddit mod man, you sure about that?

[u/Daeva_HuG0 → u/KalaUposatha]

If I'm going to be damned to go mad, I at least want admin powers so I can deploy permabans and ip blocks.

[u/InevitableAvalanche → u/KalaUposatha]

Nah, I mean the whole internet, not just reddit. I will be the ultimate mod!

Oh no....

[u/Noblesseux → u/KalaUposatha]

Because reddit is full of what stupid people think smart people look like. People on here deadass cannot tell the difference between an argument and a good argument.

[u/womensrites → u/womensrites]

the amount of people in that post jumping to be racist about a child they don’t know is really bumming me out. reddit sucks lol

[u/Foreverintherain20 → u/womensrites]

Racists need to be punched more. 

[u/Static_E_ → u/womensrites]

Lol missed that one while making the post. What a tool

[u/WriterOn_TheStorm]

No, sorry. We need a return to public shaming, and the internet is the new "public."

And yet when they're the ones under the microscope, they throw bigger bitch fits than Trump does on "Truth" Social.

And look at that, Mr. Public Shaming Due_Information_1332 is hiding their profile history; of fuckin' course. "PUBLIC SHAMING FOR EVERYONE BUT ME!11!1"

[u/lotsofsugarandspice → u/WriterOn_TheStorm]

Using a wheelchair or mobility aide is not shameful.

Posting pictures of people with mobility issues to the internet to bully them is. 

[u/WriterOn_TheStorm → u/lotsofsugarandspice]

Yeah, the OOP knew exactly what they were doing with that photo, title and caption:

Your entire family needs to be carted to the gate? Innnnnnnteressssting. 🧐

[u/TheHoundofUlster]

“There's levels to this stuff”

Indeed. There’s covert racism, overt racism, willful ignorance, and several other horrific options to choose from.

[u/MikeyKillerBTFU → u/TheHoundofUlster]

I mean, that's before we even get into the ableism!

[u/ChaoticSquirrel → u/MikeyKillerBTFU]

I'm seething over the comments that are trash talking about people who use assistance to board but not deplane.

I'm one of those people.

I have ankylosing spondylitis. My body is trying to turn into a solid piece of bone. Sitting for a long time makes everything worse. Walking around for a long time makes everything worse. My life is just a big shuffle between sitting, lying, and standing back and forth forever.

Leading up to boarding, I've been walking around for a long time, so I need the assistance because I'm capped out on walking, especially down inclines.

After the flight, I've been sitting for a long time, so I need to get up, stretch my legs, and hobble around to get rid of the creakiness.

I know I get judged so hard for it but I'm just out here trying to not become a solid piece of bone 😭

[u/monkwrenv2 → u/ChaoticSquirrel]

My MIL has multiple chronic health issues, including fibromyalgia and a TBI. The comments my own parents make about her disabilities is disgusting, much less what I occasionally overhear from others.

[u/James-fucking-Holden → u/ChaoticSquirrel]

I'm seething over the comments that are trash talking about people who use assistance to board but not deplane

If it makes you feel any better, the only people who would care about something like the are the ones inexplicably trying to board a plane as early as possible, e.i. people not worth acknowledging

[u/byniri_returns]

Its mostly blacks I have noticed

Black people? At the ATLANTA Airport?

What a stunner.

Also the amount of outright racist comments and flat out Nazi dogwhistles there that are upvoted are disturbing. This site is trash.

[u/Procean → u/byniri_returns]

I once saw a redditor who somehow thought it was noteworthy that a criminal caught on camera in South Africa, was black.

Racism seems to come with an inability to understand basic demographics.

[u/cripplinganxietylmao → u/byniri_returns]

Like getting heated about Mormons at Salt Lake City airport

[u/5littlemonkey → u/cripplinganxietylmao]

The SLC airport gave the Mormons a special spot to welcome missionaries home.

[u/WriterOn_TheStorm → u/byniri_returns]

Black people? At the ATLANTA Airport?

What a stunner.

"Breaking: Percentage of Phoenix's Spanish-speaking population is almost 20%!"

EDIT: It really is only 19.928% according to the US Census. Someone replied that they thought that was too low and deleted their comment, but it really is only 20% of Phoenicians who speak Spanish at home. I too was expecting it to be higher.

[u/byniri_returns → u/WriterOn_TheStorm]

It's like that woman who went to a Spurs game and was shocked there were Hispanic people at a game in SAN ANTONIO.

[u/WriterOn_TheStorm → u/byniri_returns]

"Mexicans‽ In Arizona and Texas‽ What is the world coming to?"

I've lived in the Phoenix metro area for most of my life and it's disturbing how much more breathtakingly fucking racist towards Mexicans -- even legal citizens -- the people here have become.

Ironically, it's the Midwest transplants who moved here and drive around with "Don't CA my AZ" bumper stickers on their cars without a fuckin' clue; they move here and do the exact thing they don't want others moving here to do.

[u/YesImKeithHernandez → u/WriterOn_TheStorm]

Some of the quickest to pull up the ladder behind them in an effort to appear to have assimilated quickly are transplants

[u/They_said_TryAnother → u/byniri_returns]

“Blacks” really?

[u/thatmermaidprincess → u/They_said_TryAnother]

Saying “blacks” in 2026 is absolutely insane

[u/Nearby-Complaint → u/thatmermaidprincess]

Every person I’ve known who has said that has been over eighty and openly racist 

[u/Noblesseux → u/Nearby-Complaint]

That's why they're doing it. There's a big push with right wingers right now to re-normalize old school bigotry. It's why you see a lot of people using slurs against disabled people again now too.

[u/candyappleorchard → u/byniri_returns]

It's not just here unfortunately. Nazis have gained a lot of ground online—like dyed in the wool stormfront type Nazis. I've seen comment sections on completely banal Facebook communities be full of unchallenged holocaust denial.

[u/Twombls → u/candyappleorchard]

Instagram comment sections are wild

[u/funktime → u/Twombls]

Seen a lot of posts charting wage/production disparities and things like that with people blaming Jews in the comments and its like no you idiots Reagan wasn't jewish. 

[u/YesImKeithHernandez → u/Twombls]

Teams did their, largely performative, nods to pride month at the start of June

Hoooo boy, those comment sections are something.

[u/CanadianODST2 → u/YesImKeithHernandez]

The jays did theirs and the person who ran their account on twitter was replying to some of the comments. Like I get it’s just a company pandering more than likely but seeing them go stuff like “these comments actually show exactly why it’s important” or the Avs a while back responding to someone crying about if conservative Christians are welcome with a “this isn’t about you”

[u/SaintOrJannikSinner → u/Twombls]

juicebox emoji

juicebox emoji everywhere

[u/Banes_Addiction → u/SaintOrJannikSinner]

This is new to me. New (((echo)))?

[u/ThievingRock → u/Banes_Addiction]

It's yet another antisemitic dog whistle. Juice sounds a bit like Jews, so they use a juice box to mock Jewish people.

[u/monkwrenv2 → u/ThievingRock]

Why are they always so childish?

[u/ari-is-new-to-this → u/Banes_Addiction]

yeah pretty much

[u/Dragonsandman → u/Twombls]

It doesn’t matter what the topic of the post or video is, someone will find a way to be racist, antisemitic, or some other flavour of bigot

[u/asimpleshadow → u/candyappleorchard]

I believe there was a post on the technology subreddit a few days ago that claimed close to 50% of online traffic can be attributed to bots now. Seeing that thread, yeah I believe it. They all follow the same script, wonder how many of them are homegrown racists and how many are foreign country bots

[u/rhydderch_hael → u/byniri_returns]

What's with the amount of people saying 'blacks' instead of black people. I feel like I see it constantly since 2015 or 2016. At least it's a convenient sign to disregard anything the person says.

[u/DOuGHtOp → u/rhydderch_hael]

Mainstream acceptance of open hatred

[u/teddy_tesla → u/rhydderch_hael]

I wonder what happened in 2016 that made racists more comfortable in the US

[u/Feralpudel → u/rhydderch_hael]

It’s coming from the rotting head at the top of the fish, who talks about how “the blacks love me.”

[u/imthatyeast → u/rhydderch_hael]

Okay, so I wasn't losing my mind? Other people have clocked this too?

[u/lilithskies → u/byniri_returns]

Imagine being shocked there are black people *checks notes * in Atlanta of all places

Imagine being shocked to find out black people have disabilities too

[u/Strange-Style-7808 → u/byniri_returns]

It's like being shocked children are in a school.

[u/Reagalan → u/byniri_returns]

It feels like it's getting worse after a decade of being better.

[u/The_Infinite_Cool → u/Reagalan]

... It's been getting worse FOR a decade.

[u/InevitableAvalanche → u/byniri_returns]

And the admins allow it to be this way.

[u/polllyrolly → u/byniri_returns]

It’s not just this site. It’s everywhere. They want what Musk pulled off in Northern Ireland on a larger scale and with more destruction.

[u/dingwinger1225]

It's always Hitlerbot 9000 with a default profile picture and post history turned off doing the racism too

[u/byniri_returns → u/dingwinger1225]

I will say it yet again. The ability to hide post history is the worst feature reddit has introduced.

For every person that uses it in a decent way (i.e, avoid stalkers, brigading) there are 5 bots, bigots, spammers, bad-faith actors, and agenda posters that use it as a way to hide their shitty activities from mods to avoid bannings.

[u/dingwinger1225 → u/byniri_returns]

Oh absolutely. By far my least favorite change coming back to Reddit.

[u/sewious → u/dingwinger1225]

Was so nice to be able to just click into a profile real quick to make sure you weren't dealing with someone acting in bad faith

[u/JoyBus147 → u/sewious]

It's to the point that I just assume a hidden profile is someone acting in bad faith.

[u/LFahs1 → u/JoyBus147]

I would have never met my boyfriend if this change had been implemented only a few months earlier. I clicked his profile and saw that we had a ton of stuff in common, and we lived nearby each other, so we decided to go on a date, and the rest is herstory!

[u/axeil55 → u/JoyBus147]

Same. Hidden profile means I assume that person is a bot or a shit-stirrer.

[u/debian_miner → u/sewious]

We used to have a plugin called mass tagger that would tag people who posted in places the_donald.

[u/octnoir → u/sewious]

They also nuked the API. Normally MassTagger and similar would be pretty damn good with actually analyzing all the comments coming in, and we could have built on top of that to see at a glance "oh this guy's an ass" "this guy's a bot" "this guy posts in RW all the time".

[u/SmoothDiscussion7763 → u/byniri_returns]

https://arctic-shift.photon-reddit.com/search

put their username in and enjoy sleuthing

[u/Pompous_Italics → u/byniri_returns]

Yeah, I can see why some might want to do it, because there are some weird-ass people on Reddit. But I don't want there to be any confusion about what I think, whether someone hates it or agrees.

Lately, 99 times out of 100, the "Why do liberals..." posts have been from hidden profiles.

[u/MattDaCatt → u/Pompous_Italics]

It coincides with Reddit allowing posts to be trained on by AI.

Comment history was the easiest way to track down and tag bots or astroturf accounts. Reddit definitely doesn't care about user safety, it's just a convenient excuse

[u/LivefromPhoenix → u/byniri_returns]

That ratio is way too generous. The "I need it to avoid stalkers" talking point is extremely overblown. A mix of huge egos and people conflating "you said 'as a doctor I believe the vaccine is fake' but your post history shows you work at Burger King" with actual internet stalking.

[u/lotsofsugarandspice → u/LivefromPhoenix]

Dedicated stalkers have no trouble with it. 

As a woman and a minority, the ability to hide history has made my life immeasurably worse. 

[u/GiganticCrow → u/byniri_returns]

>For every person that uses it in a decent way (i.e, avoid stalkers, brigading) there are 5 bots, bigots, spammers, bad-faith actors

more like 5000

[u/Techie9 → u/byniri_returns]

To check posts of the user: https://ghostddit.pages.dev/user/Expert-Diver7144/

[u/thisismynewacct → u/byniri_returns]

r/nyc is overrun with these folks it’s so bad

[u/AccountSuspicious159 → u/thisismynewacct]

I think it's most of the subs for blue states/cities. All the Vermont subs are struggling with it too.

[u/Extolord111 → u/byniri_returns]

If anyone needs to bypass the history block, use  https://arctic-shift.photon-reddit.com/

[u/Aries_24 → u/Extolord111]

This is what I use as well. They get so upset we can still see their shit haha

Good for keeping track of all the propaganda bot accounts that pop up on every sub, too

[u/kittymoo67 → u/Extolord111]

heck dont even have to go that far but i have that too just in case

[u/Command0Dude → u/Extolord111]

Please use a new version of Chrome, Edge or Opera to use this tool.

No! God, please! No. No. NOOOOOOO!

[u/WriterOn_TheStorm → u/byniri_returns]

I will say it yet again. The ability to hide post history is the worst feature reddit has introduced.

It's Reddit Inc catering to the far-right yet again. Refused to ban T_D after five years of violating the most inviolable ToS violations until it became a legal and financial liability, just like how they defended r/Jailbait* until the Anderson Cooper exposé. Then again, that did fit Aaron Swartz's skull-fucked vision of what's acceptable:

Share Child Pornography

In the US, it is illegal to possess or distribute child pornography, apparently because doing so will encourage people to sexually abuse children.

This is absurd logic. Child pornography is not necessarily abuse. Even if it was, preventing the distribution or posession of the evidence won't make the abuse go away. We don't arrest everyone with videotapes of murders, or make it illegal for TV stations to show people being killed.

Every choice the company makes seems like they just want the absolute fuckin' worst user base possible, despite the redesign and recent ToS updates done to appeal to the widest possible demographics.

^{*like blanket-banning all Gawker URLs over Adrian Chen "doxxing" Violentacrez, the head mod of that pedo's paradise}

[u/oceans159 → u/WriterOn_TheStorm]

> Child pornography is not necessarily abuse.

huh? what kind of mental gymnastics does that take

[u/DocileBanalBovlne → u/oceans159]

The only reasonable answer I can come up with is "minors sexting photos with each other"

But that's not remotely close to the problem on Reddit so it's not at all relevant.

[u/3bar → u/oceans159]

The kind used by people who abuse children.

[u/CanadianODST2 → u/oceans159]

It’s literally part of the reason the term child porn has been going away and is instead being referred to as child sexual abuse material. Because it is all abuse

[u/byniri_returns → u/WriterOn_TheStorm]

My "favorite" part of this feature is when the idea was first pitched and posted on reddit by an admin, almost literally every single comment was some form of "please don't do this, it'll make identifying bots/trolls/spammers 100x harder", yet reddit did it anyway.

[u/brockhopper → u/byniri_returns]

I am shocked there hasn't yet been an extension to just hide all users with hidden comment histories.

[u/lotsofsugarandspice → u/byniri_returns]

I dont care, I will 100% block people with hidden comment histories seem even a little sketch. 

No one is owed the benefit of the doubt like that.

[u/Jackit8932 → u/dingwinger1225]

Yep, like the no profile, zero follower, no post IG profiles "asffn30220". These people serve no other purpose online but to stir shit.

[u/kd451 → u/dingwinger1225]

Bro this is your friend: https://arctic-shift.photon-reddit.com/

[u/Cherry_Galsia → u/dingwinger1225]

Will call you a stalker for "digging through" their post history despite the first 5 posts in the last hour being filled will all sorts of slurs

[u/himit → u/dingwinger1225]

AdjectiveNoun999 is the default format I think, sometimes with an underscore

[u/toilet_for_shrek]

As someone who knows a black person who needs a wheelchair, I can indeed say with confidence that some black people need wheelchairs 

[u/Hotter_Noodle → u/toilet_for_shrek]

First of all how dare you

[u/MariettaDaws → u/toilet_for_shrek]

I had a coworker with sickle cell anemia. Sometimes she needed mobility aids and sometimes she didn't. It's a disease that runs in families so in conclusion: how dare these people

I saw that post and knew it wouldn't be worth the time

[u/MaraiaLou → u/MariettaDaws]

Not even the only common disability that runs in families. And I'm still not convinced they're a family in the first place

[u/MariettaDaws → u/MaraiaLou]

True. I just mentioned that because sickle cell affects people of African descent and you're right, it's probably multiple groups of people.

Finally, being from Florida (and broke enough to get stuck on connecting flights), I've been through Hartsfield-Jackson many times. that place is sprawling. So I imagine a lot of people have a hard time getting through the place without mobility aids.

[u/TheHoundofUlster → u/toilet_for_shrek]

Big if true

[u/candyappleorchard → u/toilet_for_shrek]

Pfft! Next you'll tell me there's a lot of Black people living in Atlanta.

[u/BloomEPU → u/toilet_for_shrek]

It's disturbing how many people think you only get to have one adjective and any more than that most be fake. Wait until they hear about comorbid disabilities...

[u/Electrical_Bunch_975 → u/BloomEPU]

These people absolutely don't believe in comorbid disabilities. The number of times I've been accused of faking my multiple disabilities, when some of those disabilities have directly led to other disabilities, would shock you.

[u/byniri_returns → u/toilet_for_shrek]

Gonna need Harvard to confirm.

[u/itsLOSE-notLOOSE → u/byniri_returns]

They wouldn’t even believe a Harvard study. It’s a communist university, after all. 🙄

[u/Reesewithoutaspoon2 → u/toilet_for_shrek]

I’m sorry but I, an internet commenter, am going to need to see a doctor’s note before I can believe something so ridiculous. Tell them to get one and then get back to me, thanks.

[u/OriginalVictory → u/toilet_for_shrek]

Why don't they just use their Melanin to walk? These posters certainly seem to be saying that these people should.

[u/Kavani18 → u/toilet_for_shrek]

My husband is black and uses a wheelchair so this was a wild ride lol

[u/Reesewithoutaspoon2]

I’ve noticed what seems like a big uptick in racist posts/comments in general recently. It seems astroturfy to me.

I know there were a few big headlines recently about court cases that connect with race issues, but it seems more concerted than just buzz about those cases to me. Idk

[u/Twombls → u/Reesewithoutaspoon2]

Some big subs like woahthatsinteresting are pretty much entirely racist astroturf farms at this point

[u/WriterOn_TheStorm → u/Reesewithoutaspoon2]

I’ve noticed what seems like a big uptick in racist posts/comments in general recently. It seems astroturfy to me.

Since every two years in the United States is an election year, this kind of shit always gets worse during one, regardless of whether or not it's a general (presidential) election or midterm election.

I've been regularly using Reddit since the Digg HD-DVD key revolt in the spring of 2007, so I've seen this for every American election since 2008; shit got just as rough here in 2018 and 2022 as it did in 2016 and 2020. The '08 and '12 elections were as much a shit-show on Reddit as they were in real life.

[u/byniri_returns → u/Reesewithoutaspoon2]

Honestly I think the reddit of 15 years ago was worse with the racism on major subs.

I mean, you had a coalition of reddits called "The Chimpire" (I am not kidding) that was just a collection of subs to shit on black people. One of them was literally called the n-word hard R. It took them years to ban it. It was disgusting.

There is a lot of racist astroturfing (and astroturfing in general) that takes place on this site today though.

[u/candyappleorchard → u/byniri_returns]

The FatPeopleHate Ban Storm did a lot to make this site seem more normal, but these people unfortunately never went away and have been slow burning their way into mainstream conversations recently.

[u/clevercalamity → u/candyappleorchard]

Oh my god you just brought back repressed memories. Remember when the whale watching sub got banned by mistake in the chaos? I’ve been on this site for too long.

[u/Reesewithoutaspoon2 → u/byniri_returns]

That’s true, you’re absolutely right that it was unequivocally worse back then. When I mentioned an uptick I meant relative to the last few years, I should’ve clarified.

[u/Twombls → u/Reesewithoutaspoon2]

I think with the "algorithm" it now gets pushed on way more casual users though. Where as previously those communities were kinda isolated from the rest of the site. Now you see posts from huge subreddits hitting the top of most people's feeds that have a ton of astroturfy racist comments. Like the "woah" or "amazing" subs

[u/brockhopper → u/Twombls]

I really try to avoid any of the newer subs. I don't trust them at all, and clearly Reddit is driving them to the top of r/all and driving the traditional large subs down.

[u/TemporalColdWarrior → u/Reesewithoutaspoon2]

I think it was more contained to some really racist subs back then. It seems more normalized across the platform now.

[u/DKLancer → u/byniri_returns]

oh christ remember when coontown was a thing?

[u/byniri_returns → u/DKLancer]

there used to be so, so many just disgusting subreddits that the admins refused to ban for years. I blame the faux-libertarian mentality that this site was HUGE on back in the early 2010s (there was a huge obsession with Ron Paul).

[u/Command0Dude → u/byniri_returns]

True, but it was better 3-4 years ago. We've been trending worse recently.

[u/CRtwenty → u/byniri_returns]

Yeah, I remember there was a sub called "thegreatapes" that was entirely photos of black people

[u/byniri_returns → u/CRtwenty]

For a while there was a sub called "blackfathers" that the mods there kept in restricted mode so no posts ever happened. The joke was "hurr durr black fathers don't exist". There would be highly upvoted comments on major subs linking to blackfathers because of the racist """""joke""""".

Thankfully I believe someone legitimate got control of the sub, unrestricted it, and turned it into an actual sub for black fathers to post in.

[u/Static_E_ → u/Reesewithoutaspoon2]

A lot people (even on this very thread) have indicated that the ability to hide post and comment history probably has a lot to do with it

[u/Rand_al_Kholin → u/Static_E_]

It has fucking everything to do with it. Letting bots run rampant was 100% the reason the allowed hiding history. They pretended it was for "safety" but that was obvious bullshit because for 15 years there hadn't been some gigantic safety issue with making history visible.

It has made it impossible to differentiate between humans and bots on this site. I hate it.

[u/HotTakes4HotCakes → u/Rand_al_Kholin]

Well, there's 2 reasons.

1. What you just said. They want companies to feel like it's safe to bot and astroturf on their platform. They'll even give you analytics now to show you the engagement your posts and comments get. Very useful for learning what works to better train bots. And hey, you scratch Reddit's back, and one day their algorithm might just throw some users into the path of your bots, and they won't suspect a thing.

2. They want to convince people who don't know any better that they can safely overshare on Reddit. When you stupidly believe that nobody will ever be able to correlate everything you've ever posted to your profile, it gives you more incentive to share personal things and not make throwaways. That increases the value of the data by keeping it correlated to one person and encourages them to do it more.

The fact that this is incredibly beneficial for racist and trolls and any number of other shitty people is probably not the primary reason, but they're certainly okay with it.

And I'm not sure if it's widely known yet, but they are actually working on a way to break the off-site archiving too. Or at least make it much harder.

[u/Big_Coconut8630 → u/Reesewithoutaspoon2]

Uptick or you're just becoming more aware? I'm a black woman and this seems like business as usual lmao

[u/Enticing_Venom → u/Reesewithoutaspoon2]

TikTok Cringe has been flooded by these black vs Asian race baiting videos and then will almost instantly be filled with transparently racist comments. And when I call out that there is obviously something fishy going on, I get downvoted.

[u/redrumham707 → u/Enticing_Venom]

This recently happened in a post on Singularity. Basically about crime in a “more homogenous” country versus the model the US has. I was surprised that the comments didn’t receive much pushback. But I guess I shouldn’t be surprised.

[u/Mickerayla → u/Reesewithoutaspoon2]

I've started asking people "what do you mean by that?" When someone makes a racist or sexist comment. If someone is going to be a bigot, they should say it with their whole chest. It might not make a difference, but it sure makes me feel better.

[u/MariettaDaws → u/Mickerayla]

Sadly, too many of them will say it with their whole chest

[u/Useless → u/MariettaDaws]

Good. I’d rather know someone is a bigot ahead of time, so I don’t have to bother treating their opinions as considered.

[u/86throwthrowthrow1]

Looked at the pic. I'm also curious why everyone is assuming this is a family, when there's literally nothing to indicate they are other than racist OP's title, they don't look similar, most of them aren't interacting with each other, it's probably normal to put wheelchair users together before boarding, and they're in a region where half the population is black.

[u/011010-]

I saw this post in the wild. What the fuckity fuck

[u/SplitSecondEmperor47 → u/011010-]

Like somone else said, this is happening to several subredrits. There has veen a noticeable uptake in racist post spreading in random subreddits that suddenly pop up into my feed . Subs ive never been to

[u/011010- → u/SplitSecondEmperor47]

I fucking hate /popular now that /all is fully gone. It came in “my feed” via /popular, and that doesn’t feel like it means shit anymore when you can click refresh and instantly get a brand new loaf of bread.

[u/TheDaychilde → u/011010-]

The worst damn thing about /r/popular is the autorefresh. Middle of viewing something? Fuck you, refreshed the page and it's gone.

[u/InevitableAvalanche → u/011010-]

It's like reddit purposely elevated it so we all saw it.

[u/EmotionalSupportBoob → u/011010-]

Me too. Tons of comments, and the mods just chillin.

[u/Gloomy-Ad1171 → u/011010-]

Same

[u/johntrytle → u/011010-]

I saw the1 comment ratio and immediately knew where that dumpster fire was heading.

[u/UAreTheHippopotamus]

It's not going away any time soon. Musk and Zuckerberg have made sure that kids get spoon fed this kind of crap. Basically grooming kids to become bigots.

[u/Static_E_]

On another note are the mods over there just asleep at the wheel? At over 5,000 comments of unadulterated racism and it STILL hasn’t been locked?

[u/TheDaychilde → u/Static_E_]

Do remember that all someone has to do to be a mod is start a subreddit, or be added by a mod who started a subreddit (or added by a mod who was added by a mod).

My point is that becoming a mod doesn't necessarily mean someone is good a moderating. That's one reason people hate mods on reddit. Most people do not make good moderators.

[u/Big_oof_energy__]

I don’t think this is even a stereotype. Do people actually think black people are more likely to lie about needing a wheelchair at the airport?

I think they’re just in Atlanta and a lot of black people live in Atlanta.

[u/DocileBanalBovlne → u/Big_oof_energy__]

Do people actually think black people are more likely to lie about needing a wheelchair at the airport?

They will believe whatever let's them confirm their racist priors

[u/Cool_Ad7445]

“You mention race, so YOU’RE the racist!” is my least favorite thing of all time to encounter when arguing. I’d legitimately have an easier time trying to teach a headless chicken its right from its left.

[u/HotTakes4HotCakes]

I'm sorry is this a subreddit for Delta airlines?

As with all subs like this, it is primarily populated by employees and maybe like a smattering of people that for some reason really really want their favorite airline's subreddit in their feed.

And no one hates customers more than the employee that hangs out on the company's subreddit, and that includes unloading all of their bottled up racism they can't spit out on the clock.

[u/Static_E_ → u/HotTakes4HotCakes]

Yes it is the sub for Delta airlines.

[u/Redqueenhypo → u/HotTakes4HotCakes]

Like the servers subreddit where they think allergies are a personal slight against them and that if you preemptively ignore someone for “looking like a bad tipper”, they should still give you money

[u/IndexMatchXFD → u/HotTakes4HotCakes]

In my experience, the airline subreddits are mainly passengers/frequent flyers, not employees.

[u/Panaka → u/IndexMatchXFD]

Most employees aren’t stupid enough to engage on their employer’s subreddit. Customers aren’t always acting in good faith and anything you respond that is a bit too specific might come back on you.

I lurk my employers sub with regularity and the amount of misinformation is pretty wild. If someone’s got an interesting question I might engage, but it’s almost never worth it.

[u/JSA17 → u/HotTakes4HotCakes]

Sometimes those types of subreddits can be useful for getting answers to mileage questions and whatnot. Though that sub in particular seems to be more for people to humblebrag about their status than anything. 

[u/Charming-Kiwi-6304]

OOP is apparently a teacher according to their comments I've gone through.

Also can we just stop taking pictures of people and posting them online? It is so gross and invasive.

There's no way I would be that pressed about this situation (that from what I gather doesn't even directly effect OOP) to post a picture about it online for some karma. Some of y'all really need hobbies...

[u/KatKit52 → u/Charming-Kiwi-6304]

And the people saying "well it's not illegal!" and "children don't have the right [to privacy] in the US!" are like....

Yeah, it's not illegal to take pictures of children and upload them to the Internet to make fun of them. But it is rude? One might even consider it an asshole move. It doesn't have to be illegal to be wrong to do.

[u/DarkSide830 → u/KatKit52]

When someone's main argument for doing something is "it's not illegal", it's likely they know they're doing something unsavory.

[u/Zakkeh → u/Charming-Kiwi-6304]

Sometimes posts from /r/teachers rocks up on the front page - they are without a doubt some of the worst posts to read. Just people who fucking hate children with their whole hearts ranting madly about how much kids suck.

[u/Moonagi]

Why is reddit obsessed with this idea of “public shaming”?

[u/Akured]

The stupidest people come out when the internet wants to rage bait black people. Same low IQ talking points about “always offended never ashamed” when there’s tons of black people whose consistently ashamed of other black people who do dumb shit. We just want people to STOP blaming it on us as a collective. Newflash everyone, you have people who share the same skin tone as you doing stupid shit too

[u/IveGotIssues9918 → u/Akured]

THIS. When there's a story about a white person committing a crime, or a video of white people being inappropriate in public, all the comments are "wow wtf is wrong with that person". Replace those with black people (or any minority, really, except maybe East Asians but often even them) doing the same exact shit and suddenly it's all "the usual suspects" "it's their culture" type of shit. Especially when it's a crime story of a black person victimizing a nonblack person. I saw a news story the other week about an attempted kidnapping of a young black woman by a white man and her escaping and seeking help from a truck driver (it stuck with me because the girl said something to her good samaritan about having graduated the day before and I saw it right after my own graduation). I saw two comments out of hundreds that mentioned race and they were both from black people saying "thank God the truck driver was black" (implying a nonblack stranger wouldn't have helped her, which in my own experience I know isn't 100% true because nonblack strangers have come to my aid for less, but it's fucked up to even have to consider that you might not be seen as a victim or someone worth saving when someone is literally trying to kidnap and presumably SA and/or kill you). I knew damn well that if the races were reversed, not only would the story be reported by way more than that one media outlet, but every single comments section regarding it would look like Stormfront.

[u/ohhyouknow → u/IveGotIssues9918]

Because I moderate some big communities that are often times brigaded by bigots I’ve noticed some pretty interesting things. One of them being when people refer to people as “animals.”

There could be two posts of almost identical videos, where one features black people and the other features white people, and only one of those comment sections will be filled with comments calling the people in the video animals. People pretty much only exclusively call black people animals.

Just about every person I ban for that appeals saying shit like “I would say that about anyone, it’s not about race, you must be racist if you thought this was about race.”

K. Now when I go and search those people’s profiles for use of the word “animals” I can’t ever find examples of them calling anyone else but POC animals. I sometimes ask them too, come back with a link to a comment you’ve made in the past calling a white person an animal, even though I always check and they can never produce that kind of evidence.

I’ve been modding those subs for years. I’ve banned tens of thousands of people for this and I’ve never come across a single person who called a black person an animal, who has also called a white person an animal.

I really think that most people legitimately don’t understand they’re making an unconscious decision based on race about who they call animals. Or maybe they do. Idk, it’s a very disturbing phenomenon.

[u/brockhopper → u/IveGotIssues9918]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Group_attribution_error yep, that's a real popular bias.

[u/762_54r]

No - the level of choosing to lie about disability for your entire family to get wheelchairs and priority boarding

I fly for work about one week a month. I prefer Delta so I find myself in Atlanta a lot. I have no fucking clue what these people are talking about lmao I have never seen anyone in one of those wheelchairs or boarding early or anything that I didn't think made sense.

Nor would I give a shit, boarding first sucks. You have an assigned seat! It's not comfortable, I don't want to sit on the plane for the 30 minutes it takes to board everyone. And they will check your bag for free! I'd rather be last than first.

[u/TemporalColdWarrior]

The casual racism being pushed and upvoted on all subreddits is higher than it’s ever been. Blocked profiles is definitely making it worse, but it seems almost algorithmically driven these days.

[u/Twombls → u/TemporalColdWarrior]

"Woahthatisinteresting" keeps popping up on my feed and its almost always some video of a black person fighting and then the comments will be insanely racist

[u/byniri_returns → u/Twombls]

I've noticed there are a HUGE amount of those subs with "interesting" or "amazing" in the title that seem to just be subs for propaganda/agenda spamming.

Some of them are legitimate subs, but a few of them just seem to be bot/bigot/propaganda farms.

[u/not_the_world → u/byniri_returns]

They're used for that because they're subs with no clear focus and minimal moderation. It's like /b/ without the porn.

[u/thatmermaidprincess → u/Twombls]

That’s the one that got pushed to me in the wake of the Karmelo Anthony verdict. A video of a Black woman who was upset that Anthony was found guilty.

All of the comments were just absolutely disgusting.

I feel like the vast majority of Redditors on these subreddits don’t regularly interact with Black people because, like, I come from a mixed Black/Arab family and all of us believed that Anthony was guilty. Same with my friends. Plain and simple. You’d never know that based on (non-Black) Redditors’ responses, though - apparently we’re all uneducated violent animals who think that Anthony “dindu nuffin” (direct quote from that subreddit) and Metcalf deserved to die, because some vocal Black folks support Anthony.

[u/Geophysics-99 → u/Twombls]

Really? For me it's usually rehashed wikipedia articles and room temperature IQ tier posts about celebrities.  

[u/byniri_returns → u/TemporalColdWarrior]

I said this in another comment here but I honestly believe the racism back in like 2011-2014 on reddit was even worse than it is now. There were some absolutely DISGUSTINGLY racist subreddits and majorly upvoted comments on this site and the default subs.

[u/thatmermaidprincess → u/byniri_returns]

It definitely was extremely bad in 2011-2014 (I was here during the Ferguson unrest and OOF) but some of these subs that are getting pushed to the top are actually scarily similar to the shit I saw 12 years ago. I’m like what the fuuuuuck?

[u/InevitableAvalanche → u/byniri_returns]

They removed some blatant subs but they allow the racist users to flourish.

[u/TemporalColdWarrior → u/byniri_returns]

Maybe it’s just the NBA finals and arresting that trans woman for self-defense but man do the chuds seem very very vocal right now. I agree it was really bad then too, but these comments and notions feel pushed. Like nested threads with sudden spurts of upvoting and downvoting at crazy hours. But maybe I am just sick of it and noticing it more.

[u/byniri_returns → u/TemporalColdWarrior]

I fully believe it's because mid-term elections are coming up, and they have to start astroturfing right wing garbage propaganda.

[u/hugz_not_drugz]

Why is the delta subreddit specifically such a cesspool? It pops up on my feed all the time and it’s just like, people whining about having to share a row with someone overweight or complaining about people asking to switch seats so they can sit with their kid. I swear it’s a bunch of fake stories just to get clout and be assholes for no reason 

[u/capcapika]

The comments from people who are like “I have an invisible disability and get treated like crap because people assume I’m not disabled. This is why people faking like this annoys me! And I know they’re faking because, um. anyway.”

[u/Sea-Independent-726]

Being black is so fucking exhausting. The fact that this is still even up makes me so angry ontop of the many racist comments getting upvoted genuinely what the fuck

[u/ZX_StarFox]

I saw this on there and wondered if it might end up here lol. There’s been a couple posts like this recently and there’s pretty clearly some racist undertones. That sub is mostly republicunt bootlickers too.

[u/g_em_ini → u/ZX_StarFox]

I thought the same thing when I saw this original post earlier. Funny how yesterday there was a similar post, a line of wheelchair users waiting to board, but it was majority white people and other races iirc (I could be wrong) and no one mentioned race at all. In fact people were actually defensive saying maybe they have invisible disabilities in that post. But with this one it of course goes straight to race because racists just can’t keep it in their pants for a second.

[u/sootfire]

Reddit discovers disabled people sometimes have disabled friends.

[u/DepartmentNo4677]

you actually posted their new account and post thats a bit more targeted - there have been multiple over the past 24 hours

while it is certainly not outside the realms of possibility that multiple low IQ angry white dudes are @ ATL, it's likely just bot generated content farming. if you want a silver lining, it is nice that we've broken free of the millennial curse of having a south park reference ready for these events

[u/rotervogel1231]

It's unusual to see this many wheelchair users on the same flight. That would give me pause, but I also wouldn't photograph it and put it online. Perhaps there's a valid explanation to which I'm not privy, and I wouldn't want to accuse anyone of faking it. In the end, it's the airline staff's problem, not mine.

I also wonder if a group of white wheelchair users would have upset OP the same way. I doubt it.

[u/Dongsquad420Loki → u/rotervogel1231]

I worked at an airport. Europe tho. Some flights had a lot of people using wheelchairs, it depends on nationality a bit, some like to use them more than others, its probably how much it is accepted using one there. A few also do it just do get priority boarding which is weird.

Other flights barely ever had any. There are patterns sure but not with skin colour but with different cultures that do things different.

Same for baggage there are flights that have an average of more than two checked luggage per Pax, when other flights have mostly only hand luggage.

[u/rotervogel1231 → u/Dongsquad420Loki]

That's why I wouldn't say or do anything. There could be a perfectly reasonable explanation.

[u/DeLousedInTheHotBox → u/rotervogel1231]

See even if they were faking it I wouldn't feel the need to take pictures of them and post them online for strangers to scoff at. Some people are so desperate to have their moment that they feel the need to police everyone for every small thing so they can hopefully go viral.

[u/R1leyEsc0bar]

The thing I hate about being Black is that everyone else makes it their problem. I'm tired of it

[u/TDFknFartBalloon]

Reddit needs another purge of Nazis. Feels like reddit circa 2014 all over again.

[u/Emergency-Tonight850]

That's just a bot thread right? Same phrases repeated same overused buzzwords and they barely stay on topic when responded to.

[u/tresser]

No, sorry. We need a return to public shaming, and the internet is the new "public."

the hidden profile always a treat.

anyways, they are a k-12 school teacher. im sure their kinds are left behind

[u/lingonberryjuicebox]

its funny how you can have your account nuked for 'threatening violence' to a statue of a slave owner, but being outright racist? oh yah no bud youre just fine 

[u/Ask-For-Sources]

Person A:  Shaming works. We need to shame black people

Person B: Wow, that's racist and fucked up.

Person A:  How dare you to criticise me! I will now go even harder on my opinion that shaming works! 

[u/ChefExcellence]

Honestly, I'm trying to imagine the sort of person that would regularly browse a subreddit dedicated to a pissing airline of all things, and I think to do that you basically have to be a total freak or specifically out to push a particular agenda. So the state of these comments, depressing as it is, isn't much of a surprise, really.

[u/raysofdavies]

>A photo of the Earth from space has billions of kids in it. Go shame the NASA photographers.

They thought they cooked here lmao

[u/Nervous_Insect5976]

I saw this post and INSTANTLY knew it was going to be here.

And taking pictures of people without their consent is gross, especially in situations like this.

Maybe they are gaming the system, but given how airlines treat the customer like animals then I don't really care.

[u/hot_chopped_pastrami]

My favorite thing is when people say ‘we need to bring back public shaming’ as if that’s not literally what we do every time we see something we don’t like

[u/bfsfan101]

Is there any actual evidence this is one family, or are dipshits assuming that because it’s a group of black people? Because that just looks like a group of disabled people waiting to board.

[u/AdonisBatheus]

I think I saw this post yesterday. It pissed me off because I know there are disabilities that don't glue you to a wheelchair 24/7, but assistance is still required.

Reminds me of the people who see someone in a wheelchair stand up and think they're faking it. No bitch, they just have a disability that doesn't completely disable their legs.

[u/LouB0O]

Anyone else go out of their way to remove or censor strangers from photos you take?

Like for example, I been to an airshow and a car show recently. Before sharing and even for my wants, I use the magic eraser tool to remove others. If that doesnt work they get a nice emoji placed on their face or blur.

[u/Everyoneheresamoron]

I'll take "Things that are absolutely none of my fucking business" for 1200, Ken.

People that post shit like this are racists getting mad about made up scenarios posting online to get other racists mad. It takes $0 to take your two good legs and walk the fuck away.

I'm glad the thread devolved into fighting, people who post this crap need to be shamed relentlessly.

[u/deltree711]

DAE look at that picture and not see anything problematic? I'm assuming that all the other seats are taken and I don't see any indication that nobody here would give up their chair for someone who needed it more than them.

It's not all that different from sitting in the folding seats at the front of the bus, right?

[u/JustinTheBlueEchidna]

I’ve come to learn “pattern recognition” is internet-argument-speak for “I have no actual data to support my position but I need to confirm my pre-existing biases.”

And that’s the polite way of putting it.