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Why would something that's distasteful be automatically illegal?



It's not just distasteful. There is legitimate hate speech there, which some countries deem illegal.


Not in the US as far as I know though and that's usually what Reddit takes as baseline. Though I think a case could be made banning them for vote brigading but that might create quite some drama considering the 2 big brigading subs (if you discount positive brigading of /r/bestof and /r/defaultgems) SRS and /r/guns are politically sensitive.


Legitimate hate-speech.

"No sir, ours is 100% legitimate!"


As opposed to "sarcastic" hate speech, like a joke you might hear on Tosh.0. These people really do believe the things they say, and they are intent on spreading their vitriol as far as they can.

I'm not sure what point you were trying to make, though. Unless you really didn't understand what I meant?




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