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And then the site exploded, and it had to learn how to handle things like actual nazis calling for the deaths of jewish people.

I'm not sure I see where the joke is - this was inevitable.

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I spent years on that subreddit and never once saw somebody that identified as a Nazi calling for the deaths of Jewish people. I bet you can't find any such examples. Your viewpoints of the world are based on hearsay and propaganda, not facts and logic.

Which subreddit? /r/the_donald? I was talking about the site in general, which did have explicit hate subreddits, which Reddit started struggling to grapple with back in 2015. I do find it kinda funny though that you saw an accusation of antisemitism and immediately started defending /r/the_donald.

It is worth noting that I did see explicit and implicit (((antisemitism) on /r/the_donald, but also, no examples are possible anymore, as the subreddit is gone /shrug

Perhaps not literally, however the subreddits namesake literally retweeted a video of someone exclaiming 'white power'. Most people who are not facists and are not nazis wouldnt exclaim something like this and would not support someone who retweets such things.

Searching /r/AgainstHateSubreddits easily finds examples of Holocaust denial and other Anti-Semitic behavior.

> I spent years on that subreddit

But why ?

There’s a clue in his username...

> And then the site exploded, and it had to learn how to handle things like actual nazis calling for the deaths of jewish people.

Oh, so is that why they banned The Donald? Or any of the other number of subreddits they have quarantined and slowly killed?

No, they banned those subreddits for violating the rules, specifically

> promoting hate based on identity or vulnerability

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