{"id":16781,"date":"2020-07-16T07:36:15","date_gmt":"2020-07-16T14:36:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/politicalhat.com\/?p=16781"},"modified":"2020-07-16T07:36:15","modified_gmt":"2020-07-16T14:36:15","slug":"reddit-approval-of-racial-hatred","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/2020\/07\/16\/reddit-approval-of-racial-hatred\/","title":{"rendered":"Reddit Approval of Racial Hatred"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-16782\" src=\"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/reddit-censored.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"133\" srcset=\"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/reddit-censored.jpg 400w, https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/reddit-censored-300x100.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Reddit recently updated its statement on \u201cPromoting Hate Based on Identity or Vulnerability\u201d which is about justifying its recent <a href=\"https:\/\/old.reddit.com\/r\/announcements\/comments\/hi3oht\/update_to_our_content_policy\/fwdy6wf\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">massive ban of popular subreddits<\/a> like r\/The_Donald and r\/ChapoTrapHouse, by banning \u201chate\u201d against \u201c[m]arginalized or vulnerable groups\u201d including \u201cvictims of a major violent event\u201d such as presumably people shot by the police <em>regardless<\/em> of whether the shooting was justified.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;An earlier version of the statement exempted \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20200629172643\/https:\/\/www.reddithelp.com\/en\/categories\/rules-reporting\/account-and-community-restrictions\/promoting-hate-based-identity-or\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">people who are in the majority<\/a>\u201d from protections against \u201chate\u201d, which means non-minority groups like people who are White, for example.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" align=\"center\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\" align=\"center\">New Reddit hate speech policy does not apply to &quot;people in the majority&quot; \ud83d\ude48 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/qX7dbhS2oY\">pic.twitter.com\/qX7dbhS2oY<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; The Safest Space (@TheSafestSpace) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TheSafestSpace\/status\/1277699038431850499?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">June 29, 2020<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script> <\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Reddit has since changed the offending paragraph (though the <a href=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20200629172643\/https:\/\/www.reddithelp.com\/en\/categories\/rules-reporting\/account-and-community-restrictions\/promoting-hate-based-identity-or\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">internet is forever<\/a>), to a new version that excludes those \u201cwho try to hide their hate in bad faith claims of discrimination\u201d. In otherwords, anyone who claims \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20200709133028\/https:\/\/www.reddithelp.com\/en\/categories\/rules-reporting\/account-and-community-restrictions\/promoting-hate-based-identity-or\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">reverse discrimination<\/a>\u201d or to be a victim of Affirmative Action are not excluded from permissible (2 minutes of) hate, \u2018twould seem.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><!--more-->&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;A little Reddit mood music?<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/_ptC2La7k5E\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\"><meta name=\"twitter:site\" content=\"@PoliticHatblog\"><meta name=\"twitter:creator\" content=\"@ThePoliticalhat\"><meta name=\"twitter:title\" content=\"Reddit Approval of Racial Hatred\"><meta name=\"Reddit recently updated its statement on 'Promoting Hate Based on Identity or Vulnerability' which is about justifying its recent massive ban of popular subreddits like r\/The_Donald and r\/ChapoTrapHouse, by banning \u201chate\u201d against '[m]arginalized or vulnerable groups' including 'victims of a major violent event' such as presumably people shot by the police regardless of whether the shooting was justified.\"><meta name=\"twitter:image:src\" content=\"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/reddit-censored.jpg\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Reddit recently updated its statement on \u201cPromoting Hate Based on Identity or Vulnerability\u201d which is about justifying its recent massive ban of popular subreddits like r\/The_Donald and r\/ChapoTrapHouse, by banning \u201chate\u201d against \u201c[m]arginalized or vulnerable groups\u201d including \u201cvictims of a &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/2020\/07\/16\/reddit-approval-of-racial-hatred\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":16782,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[47,48],"class_list":["post-16781","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-progressives","tag-affirmative-action","tag-social-justice"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16781","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16781"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16781\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16783,"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16781\/revisions\/16783"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16782"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16781"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16781"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16781"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}