The company has taken some action on r/CringeAnarchy by quarantining it-a warning signal for subreddits where some functions are restricted in an attempt to get them to improve before a potentially being deleted. Reddit users and outside observers have long called for the company to remove the subreddits, arguing that they have repeatedly violated the message board’s rules. “They absolutely should have gotten rid of these groups and they should have done it a long time ago.” The posts are extreme, but are a part of a consistent pattern of hate speech posted to both groups. Other examples reviewed by Mother Jones included messages calling Islam a “death cult” and “religious fascism,” posts calling for the religion to be eradicated, and others suggesting that violence against Muslims in western countries is justified. Mother Jones reviewed at least a dozen other examples of such hate, and advocates on Reddit’s r/AgainstHateSubreddits discussion board, which has been critical of r/CringeAnarchy and r/The_Donald, catalogued many similar posts. Such posts are just a sampling of the vast amounts of content justifying the murders and bigotry on the two subreddits. “If Islam would stop its 24/7 decapitation / murder marathon, maybe we wouldn’t have to wake up to stories like this,” read another post in r/The_Donald. Fraser Anning blaming the attack on the immigration of Muslims into New Zealand. And you can’t even buy a gun to do fuckall about it,” one user wrote in an r/CringeAnarchy thread, responding to a statement from Australian Sen. “You have South Sudanese literally holding entire neighborhoods hostage from what I’ve seen. They don’t belong here, they aren’t welcome and no one wants their filthy, greasy terrorist asses here,” read another comment in r/CringeAnarchy. Any Muslim who doesn’t like this should get the fuck out of the West. I have exactly zero sympathy for ANY member of the Religion of Terrorists and Child Rape.
“Muslims get what they deserve for being terrorist pedophiles.
Since the slayings, members of two of its prominent subreddits with reputations for being hotbeds of bigoted content, r/CringeAnarchy and r/The_Donald, have regularly posted messages justifying the shooting and violence against Muslims and other groups. If 8chan was the shooter’s firewood, Facebook the match, and YouTube the oxygen, Reddit is a place where the fire he set is still smoldering. The shooter, well versed in seedy internet culture, sought to weaponize social media platforms, leaving breadcrumbs of his ideology on the crass 8chan message board, across Twitter and Facebook profiles, and in his Facebook livestream of the attack which quickly spread to YouTube. Since the slayings, two prominent subreddits have regularly hosted messages justifying the shooting. Subscribe to our print magazine.ĭays after the tragic shootings at two mosques in Christchurch, New Zealand, Reddit remains a home for the exact type of white supremacist and Islamaphobic hate that the killer used to rationalize his massacre.
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