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Re:Study finds Reddit’s ban of its most toxic subreddits wor... by geofft on Sunday April 28, 2019 @11:57AM (#19771793)
I think matz1's position is quite clear: there is no absolute right or wrong, and the only thing that makes "gas the kikes" unacceptable is that the majority of humans find it unacceptable and are willing to go to war to stop it from happening. If we weren't, it wouldn't be unacceptable any more.

It's almost a Poe's Law of moral relativism in general, but there's the additional step of "and therefore, I will not have opinions on right and wrong and will let others do as they please, because who am I to have moral opinions about others"—but that in itself is a moral opinion about others.

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Re:Study finds Reddit’s ban of its most toxic subreddits wor... by maximus1983 on Friday May 03, 2019 @06:05PM (#19822702)
Lets get one thing straight. The Allies didn't go to war because of holocaust, they were dragged into a conflict by Hitler. In fact the only reason why the UK went to war against Hitler at the time was because Winston Churchill was determined to have another war because he was a drunken psychopath. Many of the newspapers at the time actually were against allowing Jewish Refugees into the UK. Also in the US the Nazis were popular enough that Coke Cola had adverts with the swastika on it.
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