Yeah that's wholly disinteresting to me. Firstly, because that is a trolling subreddit. If it was a serious racism subreddit it would be more interesting, because I could debate with people who actually feel that way and hear their arguments, instead of angsty 15 year olds posting unfunny images.

I guess I shouldn't be arguing that fringe opinions are not available on the internet-- they are. What I should be arguing is that fringe opinions are much easier to ignore on the internet now. We've created a lot of information and ways to filter it, and now we can effectively ignore them. I think downvoting and upvoting and hiveminds are what really has killed meaningful discourse. That's why I like the 4chan model so much-- every post gets to take up space and can't be ignored.

For an extra dose of tin-foil-hat, I think reddit could be doing some vote manipulation in the larger subreddits. No one has really challenged the fact that they stopped including upvotes and downvotes in their JSON as of a few years ago. Without them it's really difficult to collect information and do analysis on certain users and keywords that anything is happening.

(That's a fun idea, reddit should stream metadata about what's going on in the site to interested people.)

I can totally understand not hiring someone for publicly endorsing Mein Kampf. It's a love-letter to racism. It's the same reason I can understand not hiring a transphobic or homophobic individual. You can't hire someone if brief research turns up that they have hatred for a group of people. What happens when one of your employees or customers falls into those groups?

But what I don't totally understand is how Industrial Society and Its Future falls into that. I get that associating with a murderer is probably bad PR. But I like to think most people would give me the benefit of the doubt and assume that I think killing people is really uncool and not acceptable work behavior. By endorsing it, I'm not saying that I hate some group of people (because the essay doesn't really condemn anyone specifically, besides progressives). I'm not endorsing a call-to-violence (because the essay isn't a call to violence, and actually has a few points where he admits he thinks he might be getting some things wrong). I'm just saying I thought it was a profound piece of writing. Not even that I agree with it, just that it was some reasoned opinions I'd never heard. It's even been submitted on this website before, which is ironically where I found it in the first place.

So Mein Kampf makes people uncomfortable, and that's something that's unacceptable. But where/why does the Unabomber Manifesto make people uncomfortable? If the fact that it was written by a murderer alone makes it an unacceptable thing to find interesting to my employer, I think they're being short-sighted and I regret nothing. They obviously haven't read it or even skimmed the wikipedia page on it. They're not just judging a book by its cover, they're judging a person by a book that they're judging by the name on its cover.

I might find I regret this when I find out that I'm unemployable after school, though. Oh well. Such is youth.