There was some NSFW stuff early on. There was a communist flag on the left side, under which was the statement "bash the fash." He-Man had a rainbow in his mouth like he was giving it a blowjob for the longest time, and all the nsfw stuff suddenly disappeared at the end. I highly suspect that moderators and bots took over by the end and made it come together, and I bet it was a PR move to amplify a sense of community.

Bots definitely did take over, and it's how communities left their images so preserved. A lot of subreddits had scripts they gave out to users to just run in the tab. I think this kind of ruined the joy of logging in after a few hours of being gone and seeing something completely different in an area.

Not sure how a communist flag (stayed on till the end, by the way) or "bash the fash" is NSFW. Unless your workplace is fascist, of course.

There are many corporations who find any form of violence NSFW, especially among places with overly sensitive PC culture.

I'm sorry, but are you actually comparing Nazi symbolism to the LGBT flag?

This has to be sarcastic, no?

Of the three, the swastika internationally is the most problematic symbol as far as international law goes. It is banned outright except for narrow historical exceptions in several Western countries (eg France and Germany). Other countries may not have banned the symbol per se, but they may have "hate speech" type laws, and a swastikas used for this purpose may also fall afoul of that.

The hammer and sickle is more comparable; it is indeed banned in a few (mostly post-Soviet) countries. But I've never heard of the hammer and sickle running into the same problems regarding hate speech laws, which was probably Reddit's focus here.

Though politics are involved, the LGBT flag represents identity and is not very comparable to major political movements with dodgy human rights records, or a symbol with a history of being behind "hate speech".

A billion Hindus would disagree with you.

Yes, it should be clarified we are talking about the Nazi swastika.

Unfortunately in the West, the Nazi use of the swastika dominates the public perception of the symbol. (This is very unfortunate given the long historical tradition of the swastika in Asia and other cultures.)

As far as I'm aware, legally, context matters significantly in places where the symbol is banned; eg the Nazi swastika is outlawed in Germany because it represents a banned political ideology, whereas a Hindu swastika is not.

They didn't ban political symbols, they ban bullying and acting disrespectfully. The swastika fits that, the LGBT flag doesn't.

This might not be the case, but it feels like you're acting naive to further an agenda.

If that's the case, I have to say that for the political views of many people, an LGBT flag is as disrespectful or dangerous to society as a swastika can be to any individual or group. Being unable to see that just proves further that reddit admins are biased.

I'm not trying to convince anybody of anything; everybody has their own views and trying to change them over the internet is a waste of time. So this off-topic for me ends here.

I'm glad you brought it back to my original point so I didn't have to:

> are you actually comparing Nazi symbolism to the LGBT flag?

Again, you're comparing a symbol for a culture/organization that committed _genocide_, to the symbol of a group that was a victim of that genocide. Then you have the audacity to say they could be similarly offensive?

Take your thinly-veiled fascism elsewhere.

Okay, what the fuck does this have to do with fascism?

I'm really annoyed with the overuse of that term. Not every asshole who is wrong is a fascist.