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Comment by ChristianBundy | Hacker News Reader

Voat is a breeding ground and gathering place for white supremacists.

A small selection of the top posts on Voat right now:

- "jew politician calls for war on whites" -> http://magaimg.net/img/9f2p.png

- "NFL player's wife accuses Dolphins owner of favoring 'Jew buddies'" -> https://www.timesofisrael.com/nfl-players-wife-accuses-dolph...

- "Everything's about race. Every single thing is about race. Remember that it's all about race, everything. All of it." -- member-only discussion

- "Voat in a nutshell" -> https://files.catbox.moe/se4iny.jpg

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What those people really need is to have their opinions challenged by outsiders. That used to happen more on the early internet.

Keep in mind that they didn't leave Reddit because they wanted to leave. They left and made Voat because they were banned. Now they don't have to interact with people that have dissenting opinions, and they can ban you if you dissent.

Reddit is relieved because their users are no longer exposed to this toxicity. Unfortunately, now those users are no longer exposed to anything but toxicity.

One of reddit's most common in-jokes is the moderation team on /r/the_donald banning literally anyone who wasn't pro-Trump while allowing white supremacist posts on their subreddit.

So they were doing that anyway.

> One of reddit's most common in-jokes is the moderation team on /r/the_donald ...

This right here is my point. I know that and you know that. I don't subscribe to that subreddit.

But I still hear about what goes on there sometimes, because you know, reddit, stuff leaks out a little if it's popular.

So that wouldn't be an in-joke if they weren't self-aware that they're outcasts on reddit. Now tell me a voat in-joke, because I don't know any.

Do you know what goes on at voat? I don't, so I just made an account. What I see looks like a community isolated, not a community scorned. It's much worse than any unmoderated community on reddit could ever be. That's what I think is dangerous.

From my point of view, reddit dropped the banhammer and this thing called Voat popped out.

> What those people really need is to have their opinions challenged by outsiders. That used to happen more on the early internet.

This is your opinion, please don't present it as fact.

Feel free to spend your own time deradicalizing white supremacists, but don't insist that the problem is that normal people aren't being welcoming enough to white supremacists.

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