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by yokaze 2187 days ago
Clearly a false equivalency.

"In its majestic equality, the law forbids rich and poor alike to sleep under bridges, beg in the streets and steal loaves of bread"

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That sounds as if you're dismissing the seriousness of anti-white racism.

I think you're wrong to do so. For example, 1036 people were victims of anti-white hate crimes in 2018. There were more anti-white hate crimes than anti-Asian, anti-Hispanic, or anti-native hate crimes.

https://ucr.fbi.gov/hate-crime/2018/topic-pages/victims

I am dismissing equating protecting vulnerable minorities with the allegory of George Orwell's Animal farm, where the ruling class was enshrining privileges for itself.
Allowing white hate isn't "protecting vulnerable minorities," it's spreading hate.
Yes, the "ruling class" of social media is enshrining their privilege to say nasty things about white men and women.

Banning "hate speech" would be less disturbing if it were done fairly, but so much of the content on reddit is hate speech that I'm sure that won't happen.

By adding the caveat "the rule does not protect groups of people who are in the majority", reddit admits that anti-white racism is a problem on their site, and says they've decided to allow it.