Who could have possibly predicted that setting up a "socialist" subreddit specifically oriented on critiquing identity politics would end in it becoming a haven for reactionary dipshits.
Its two founders, crab boy and gucci, were both insufferable reactionary dipshits and the worst posters on the old sub. They explicitly set out to create a safe space for reactionary dipshits like themselves, that was always both the inevitable end state and their intended objective.
It took way too long for the old sub to purge them, I think it only happened towards the end after the admins had started targeting the sub and its mods.
You know how if you dig deep enough on tumblr, you can find someone who, by combining the language of intersectional feminism with sniffing their own farts, has found a way to argue... I don't know, white people having houseplants that don't originate from Europe is actually cultural appropriation?
What if we dedicated an entire forum to finding and mocking people like that, from a nominally leftist position, so we can justify class reductionism? Then we could act really surprised when nazis join in too, but fail to do much about it, and just become a nazi forum that sometimes complains about capitalism. Welcome to stupidpol.
It was a sub for leftists who were overly critical of identity politics (idpol), basically class reductionists. A lot of them (all?) used it as an excuse to not analyze some racist biases they probably grew up with and as happens all the time, when poc called them out on it it activated their hitler gene and they doubled down to the point of being pretty damn racist usually lol
The old CTH sub and them would beef pretty regularly before it got banned lol
Haven for cracker 'leftists' who'd sooner go to bat for the likes of Jackson Hinkle or Infra before they'd ever consider their place as a settler or the prospect of liberating Amerikan slaves