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A comment on The Efficacy of Reddit’s 2015 Ban Examined Through Hate Speech [pdf]. Parent comment

Re:The Efficacy of Reddit’s 2015 Ban Examined Through Hate S... by throwawayjava on Monday September 11, 2017 @05:56PM (#15222774)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canadian_Indian_residential_sc... was still expanding during the 1940's and 1950's when most everyone (except indigenous peoples) could vote.

"We stop killing off / imprisoning people once we give them the right to vote" seems a little too tautological.

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Re:The Efficacy of Reddit’s 2015 Ban Examined Through Hate S... by rsynnott on Monday September 11, 2017 @06:00PM (#15222803)
Pretty big exception. No universal suffrage; not a proper modern democracy. They're pretty new, really.
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Re:The Efficacy of Reddit’s 2015 Ban Examined Through Hate S... by busterarm on Monday September 11, 2017 @06:13PM (#15222901)
Felons can't vote, today.
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Re:The Efficacy of Reddit’s 2015 Ban Examined Through Hate S... by rsynnott on Monday September 11, 2017 @06:29PM (#15223011)
In the US, no. Bit of an oddity; most other democratic countries don't do that.
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