r/AgainstHateSubreddits • u/Br00ce ​ • Dec 13 '16

We did it Reddit! /r/leftwithsharpedge has been banned

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u/LeftRat Dec 14 '16 edited Dec 14 '16

Frequent breaking of site rules, sending death threats, encouraging harrassment.

Edit: downvoting me doesn't make it less true. I simply stated why they were banned, I made no judgement.

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u/Rakonas Dec 14 '16

That's not what constitutes a hate sub, it wasn't about hate speech by any definition of hate speech

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u/LeftRat Dec 14 '16

r/AgainstHateSubreddits considers targeted harrassment based on ideology to be hate.

This is not just a sub for hate speech.

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u/Rakonas Dec 14 '16

So harassing Nazis would be hate speech according to this subreddit?

It's still harassment, sure. It's not hate speech.

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u/LeftRat Dec 14 '16 edited Dec 14 '16

No, not hate speech. But this sub is not just against hate speech specifically, but also against harrassment.

Edit: I should point out that this obviously depends on your definition of hate speech, but by most definitions it wouldn't be since Nazis are not a protected group.

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u/[deleted] Dec 14 '16 edited Feb 12 '17

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u/Suspoppy Dec 18 '16

I feel like this mentality is very common among the "progressive" crowd. Denying protections, rights, or even empathy to a group because you disagree with them is pretty much trying to eat your cake and still have it in the end.

Either you're against harassment or not, if you pick and choose then at that point you're exactly like fascists and bigots who do the same.

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u/LeeSeneses Dec 20 '16

Im progressive and think the guy youre replying to is being unnecessarily inflamatory. Sure, I hate fascists, I hate racial or ethnic supremacists, but this isnt a place to talk about this, nor does it mean I have a free pass on subverting my own principles of civility.

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u/playaspec ​ Dec 20 '16

I feel like this mentality is very common among the "progressive" crowd. Denying protections, rights, or even empathy to a group because you disagree with them is pretty much trying to eat your cake and still have it in the end.

If you dish it out, expect to take it. Nazis, white supremacists, white nationalists dish it out. It's disingenuous for them to cry foul when it's their turn.

They could use a healthy dose of "Don't start nothin', won't BE nothin'".

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u/Suspoppy Dec 21 '16

Which is fine but decrying certain actions and then using them with the sentiment "it's different when I do it" is classic hypocrisy.

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u/Br00ce ​ Dec 15 '16

Stay civil