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Prove You're Not White: Strange Reddit Trend Emerges | |
| Anonymous Coward User ID: 78195484  United States07/04/2020 05:23 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation |  Like most reporters, I try to confirm what my interview subjects say even when I have little reason to doubt them. I’ve asked to see the texts that a mass shooting survivor sent during the time he said he had feared for his life, the medical records of a woman who said she carried a genetic risk for cancer, the test scores of a student said to excel at math. But my recent reporting on racial tensions in a popular Reddit forum was the only time I have asked to see the faces of interviewees who said they were black. (I am white.) Doing so filled me with a discomfort that I came to recognize as the conflict at the heart of my article. It also made for some big reveals. “Hang on,” one of my sources said as I peered at a blank computer screen the morning he had agreed to a video call, only to find his camera was malfunctioning. “I’m black, I promise. I’m definitely black!” I had no choice but to check. Reddit is home to thousands of topic-based communities, or “subreddits,” where privacy is held sacrosanct and pseudonyms are the norm. 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. 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. Yikes. [link to www.nytimes.com (secure)] |
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