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Its not false. I see plenty of calls to violence from the left on reddit. Some of it is overt, like calling for summary execution of conservatives and religious
by manfredo 7y ago
Its not false. I see plenty of calls to violence from the left on reddit. Some of it is overt, like calling for summary execution of conservatives and religious officials in the same vein as in many communist revolts. Much of the time it's slightly more subtle, like calling for violence against "Nazis" while simultaneously calling large segments of their political opponents "Nazis".
Just browse a left leaning subreddit like LateStageCapitalism or even just /r/politics and you'll see calls to violence from the left.
- HappyDreamer 7y agoI actually now went to LateStageCapitalism and spent 10? 15? minutes reading topics and comment. I found nothing of the things you mention. (But it was interesting to go there and read.)
- manfredo 7y agoIt looks like two weeks ago they added a sticky post telling users to stop making calls to violence: https://www.reddit.com/r/LateStageCapitalism/comments/cfs3dx/reminder_report_all_posts_and_comments_that?sort=confidence https://www.reddit.com/r/LateStageCapitalism/comments/cfs3dx... I guess Reddit finally told them to clean up their act. This sticky was definitely needed. I've seen among other things, a commenter telling people whose family was killed by the Castro regime that their family deserved to be killed, and others calling for the summary killing of anyone in the top 1% of income. Look at some of the highest upvoted posts of the year: https://www.reddit.com/r/LateStageCapitalism/comments/9lhjar/capitalism_will_kill_you?sort=confidence https://www.reddit.com/r/LateStageCapitalism/comments/9lhjar... Lots of deleted comments. Several root level comments with hundreds of upvotes. LSC cleaning up it's act is pretty recent.
- collyw 7y ago> and others calling for the summary killing of anyone in the top 1% of income. It only takes $32,000 a year to be in the top 1% worldwide according to a couple or articles I read. I bet a lot of the people saying that fall into the 1%. It appears from your down votes that HN doesn't like evidence.
- collyw 7y agoI could say the same about the Donald, but I don't doubt that there is worse stuff than what I read.
- hnisacesspool 7y agoThere are a lot of nazis. You're at the very least a very useful tool for the nazis.