I've been on reddit since 2014 and really liked the voting system, as I felt it was a perfect way to discuss on a large scale. However, since then, I've noticed more and more censorships - always the same ideas making it to the top; few downvoted comments because any controversial content would immediately be deleted and its author banned. Obnoxious censoring of even slightly controversial ideas on subreddits that were supposed to be neutral (ELI5, iAmA, AskReddit, worldnews, news...). The obscurity of the voting system was also a big turn-off.
Then I discovered voat. I really like the idea of an open-source, reddit-like platform with no censorship and clear voting. The community, however, really, really seems to despise my kind (Jews). I'm okay with them expressing their ideas, because that's the whole point of this site. But I would like to know if there is any point is investing myself into this community, or if I will always end up being ostracized for what I am.
I value free speech, I'm a Christian, and I'm Jewish. Can we still be friends?
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VinnZoat ago
Pretty simple. These are simultaneously the single two most fundamental parts of my identity, and the two most controversial. Being a Christian gets me hate on Reddit, and being a Jew gets me hate on boat.
Runaway-White-Slave ago
If you were a Christian you'd most likely be familiar with Galatians 3:28...
If you were a Christian it wouldn't behoove anything to mention that you think you are somehow ethnically Jewish in whatever part. People who point out they are Jewish or part Jewish are always proud, not humble, modest, or Christian in nature, but proud.
If you are a Christian you're in your infancy spiritually, in which case you need to go back to studying the word, unless of course it holds no real meaning to you? Or you're a dirty subversive Jew who needs to STFU, you don't see the Gentiles around here announcing it, except of course when they're being blatantly anti-Synagogue of Satan........