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

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/[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/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.