I just wasted 3 hours of my life down this hell hole of a community lol. Enjoy my rant. Share your experiences with this subreddit; I’m here for you lol.
Because I’m obsessive and kind of a lurker lol, I’ve found that the mods of r/witchcraft are kinda weirdly obsessed with r/witchesvspatriarchy and they have had a habit of banning anyone and everyone who dares tell white people to stay in their damn lane.
But who am I to talk? I’ve now fallen down the r/witchcraft rabbit hole of cultural appropriation, misogyny, racism and homophobia. This is what I get for never actually participating much with a group but assuming that because we share a common interest that everyone is as cool and chill as me lol.
One of the mod is literally a “pick me” (I truly hate that term but there isn’t many quick ways to say “a woman who repeatedly puts down other women in favor of boosting their own favoritism with men”) and has posted comments on other subreddits talking down about women. That same mod is the one who actively promotes cultural appropriation and calls it “segregation” if you point out that her whiteness shouldn’t be participating in specific cultural practices.
They banned someone for making a public post on the subreddit and calling out the mods. I’m not sure what they said in the post, as it was removed, but the title remains “calling out discrimination of faith by the mod team.” They also ban people for speaking out against cultural appropriation.
Apparently the mod who has the personal vendetta against r/witchesvspatriarchy got banned by Reddit for something, though the post was removed. But someone in the comment has copy and pasted it so that it was more readable. Apparently dude thinks he’s important and people in the witch community want to see him removed from Reddit. I guess it never dawned on him that people don’t like him because he’s not a good person, idk. Then he, once again, tries to weaponize the community for his own selfish reasons. He think that other subreddit is out to get him because he and other mods allow racism and cultural appropriation in the r/witchcraft subreddit. That’s what I’m getting from the experience I’ve had with them and the experiences I’m seeing other people share.
It looks like all the mods have been banned from other witchcraft subreddits at some point, or by Reddit as a whole at some point. It also seems like it’s run by predominantly white people. I can’t say for a fact they’re all white, but it’s rare to meet someone nonwhite crying “racism” when someone says “white people aren’t culturally supposed to practice this specific form of magic.” Which gives them an extremely skewed perspective of what racism, discrimination, and appropriation really is.
That place is so toxic it hurts my eyes to stare too long lol. When you read through all their trash it’s hard to find anyone who is in opposition of their views because they remove and ban anyone who speaks out against them. Unfortunately for them they can’t control what is said outside their little bubble on Reddit. And I personally do not think it beneficial to the witchcraft community as a whole to push these harmful narratives.
And it’s strange because 82 days ago they were all complaining for being targeted by that other subreddit, then they went and targeted that other subreddit. Just a bunch of hypocrites.
Literally the main mod who made the original post has been suspended :/ and they’re still banning people left and right from their subreddit. Or at least his legion of moderators is lol.
Just be careful in online spaces. If the root of a community is rotted, the entire community suffers. I’m sure there are some really great people in the community itself, but the people at the top are power mad and weird af lol.