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Re:Reddit reports 18% reduction in hate content after bannin... by antiterra on Thursday August 20, 2020 @02:35PM (#24226823)
The problem is that a significant chunk of the community believes that it's not hate speech but simple hyperbole in response to uni-directional injustice.

It's easy to string match, bans/deletions can be instant and abrupt. They see the quick removal of their post and compare it to what they perceive as genuinely hateful posts that stay up because the post cleverly avoids violations that are easy to include in content policies.

Check out the "men are trash" question here https://www.theverge.com/interface/2019/10/3/20895119/facebo...

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Re:Reddit reports 18% reduction in hate content after bannin... by SpicyLemonZest on Thursday August 20, 2020 @02:54PM (#24227118)
And I'm not saying you're wrong. Lots of people do think their hate speech is simple hyperbole, or that it's justified by misdeeds of the group they hate. But what's the point of a rule against hate speech if you're not willing to tell those people no?
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