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Matie administrator says majority of submissions are ‘racist and violent’
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your personal biases influence it, but at the end of the day we strive to post the most well thought out coherent things, be it from either side of the story, and if something controversial happens we try to post something from both sides. “As bad as it sounds, being homophobic or sexist isn’t illegal.” Before the previous page was shut down, it had over 25 000 followers. This figure would have been more if the administrator hadn’t blocked more than 1 000 users for mostly “racist comments and threats of violence”. The most recent post to be rejected for submission on the new page referred to black people as “clueless and murderers”. The anonymous post went on to state that this viewpoint had “nothing to do with racism” because they know “a lot who feel the same”. According to the page’s administrator: “We receive quite a lot of posts like this during protests or other controversial events. “We just don’t post them, but
we have no way of knowing who submitted it.” The anonymous administrator added that Stellies Rage opened their eyes to how far Stellenbosch still has to go. “Whenever something happens that draws attention, be it a protest or whatever, we get an influx of horrible submissions. “When I started running the page in 2015, I would have probably identified us as sort of conservative in a way, but just seeing the things that people say and do, it’s really pushed me to agree with the Fees Must Fall movement, as well as Open Stellenbosch. “It also opened my eyes to how social media is in a sense an echo chamber because people surround themselves with others who have similar opinions, and anything that goes against that opinion is considered fake news or bigotry. “It just made me aware of how people get caught up with their own way of thinking, they don’t get exposed to different views.”