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Trumpists & the alt-right (same difference) are out in force spreading propaganda to foment hatred.

Because they have no real politics - all they have is hate to motivate - they have to distract from their failures.

When you see someone in this subreddit or anywhere on Reddit promoting hatred of:

• Women

• LGBTQ people

• Immigrants

(and trust me, you'll know it's hate speech - because it will mirror or repeat the alt-right agenda)

#Don't engage - Report!

Use the … on the post or comment and pick "Report", and "Hate" and then Submit it.

Or, if you're on Desktop, copy the URL of the item and use https://reddit.com/report to report the item!

#DON'T RESPOND TO BIGOTS POSTING HATE SPEECH

#ONLY REPORT THEM

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They will have spent literal millions of dollars to pay people to post their propaganda in an "organic" fashion, and arguing with them will only draw more attention to their efforts and burden moderators.

Help us defeat them!

#REPORT

Currently, Reddit is blocking archive sites from capturing posts / comments.

So what do you do?

#Report the posts and comments directly to Reddit.

##Use the report buttons on posts and comments

##File Moderator Code of Conduct reports with PROOF that Subreddit Operators are Enabling or Encouraging hate speech

Posting to r/AgainstHateSubreddits is not a substitute for reporting hate speech to the admins. Posting to /r/AgainstHateSubreddits is solely to organise anti-hatred activism, and document Subreddit Operators Enabling and Encouraging hate.

#If you can’t document, you can still REPORT hate speech. So REPORT. HATE SPEECH. TO. REDDIT.

A quick rundown of our rules

1: We are not your captive whipping posts

If you come here and (try to) use pigpoopballs.png, "lib" as a dismissive sneer, "centrist" as a dismissive sneer, "progressive" as a dismissive sneer, engage in other Derails, Dismissiveness, uninvited personal abuse, call our moderation team / Natalie "Zionist", and other such uninvited abuse, we will ban you.

Why?

Because these things are personal abuse and/or slander, both of which are prohibited by the Reddit Sitewide Rules. Even if you personally believe they're not against the Sitewide Rules - they are: because they are uninvited abuse, because they're violating our community rules, and because they're violating our collective refusal of consent to them.

You will be required, if you post or comment here, to actually respect other participants and make substantive, constructive discourse. If (on the other hand) you need to be personally abused or to abuse someone else personally (ala "Sweet Dreams" by the Eurythmics), find a sex chat worker and pay them. Or a therapist. Unless those are illegal things to do where you live - apparently both are quickly becoming illegal in the United States!!

2: Do not use the comments section as a proxy battlefield for your political support for Palestine or Israel

It is possible for everyone involved in [Whatever The Conflict Is] to all be Beyond The Pale of Badness. In various, horrible, nauseating ways. You should presume that our moderation team uses this as an axiomatic foundation of our weltanschauung.

You will not win the kinetic war you (may) have invested some of yourself in, by commenting or posting in this subreddit. You will not win the propaganda war by doing so. You will not win the public relations war by doing so. You will lose the banhammer war by doing so.

NeoNazis are slavering in secret (and sometimes not so secret) about the fact that a lot of Americans "view Israel disfavourably", and like to leverage that as an invitation to recruit or sway. We ... are not at home to such sales pitches.

Palestinian children are dying of malnutrition and preventable diseases. Jewish Americans are gunned down in front of their synagogue. Both are Beyond The Pale of Badness, and if you disagree, either keep it to yourself or don't participate here.

Your rhetorical slapfight flamewar on a message board to Feel Less Unholy Than The Other Side By Pushing Them Down Rhetorically does not donate to PCRF and does not overhaul US foreign relationship with Israel and does not address the real enemy,

white supremacists, fascists, & their traditional elite allies

who - in some cases - have spent dozens of billions of dollars to promote and normalise Divisive Flamewars On The Internet.

If you insist on behaving here the way neoNazis want you to behave on the Internet, we will show you the door.

###And if you comment saying that the Palestinians or Israels deserve to die, we will swing the banhammer so hard and fast that your name will change to Jebediah Kerman

3: We don't moderate ideologically

If you believe that, for example, "The fall of the Soviet Union was one of the greatest catastrophes of the 20th century" - you're welcome to argue that position - even if our moderators / audience believe that this position is wrong / indefensible.

If, on the other hand, you try to argue that i.e. the Holodomor [didn't happen | wasn't a genocide | was caused by the peasants and therefore Soviet policies were blameless], we're going to ban you - because that's not a disagreement on an ideological basis, it is genocide apologia. (which, btw, is a violation of Reddit sitewide rules). Same if you manage to work your way around to saying that China isn't genociding the Uighyur, (and/or use an ethnic slur to label them), or that Israel isn't genociding Palestinians. Genocide has a well-characterised definition; reasonable people can apply that definition to the facts; Defending the honour of Your Ideology whilst denying the phenomenon / facts is the antithesis of discourse & is promotion of hatred based on identity / vulnerability (which is also a violation of Sitewide Rules).

You may be inured to assuming that a moderation team that won't be In Pocket For Your Ideology / Against The "Opposing" Ideology is therefore inherently Biased Against You. You should disabuse yourself of that notion.

You may be inured to assuming that a moderation team that won't let you post or comment in Any Way You See Fit is therefore Censoring You, and inherently Biased Against You. You should disabuse yourself of that notion.

As regards moderating discourse in this subreddit:

We don't care if you want to promote or defend Communism, or communism, or the USSR, or etc. We will care if you try to defend atrocities that occurred because of Communism, or communism, or to keep the USSR afloat, or etc.

As regards moderating discourse in this subreddit:

We don't care if you want to promote or defend Capitalism, or capitalism, or the USA, or etc. We will care if you try to defend atrocities that occurred because of Capitalism, or capitalism, or to keep the USA afloat, or etc.

We're not referees in pocket for your ideology. We are referees in pocket against hatred, harassment, violent threats, forum sliding, derails, etc.

You "win" or "lose" a "debate" or discourse, or succeed or fail at a dialectic in this forum based on the merits of your words / work. You will be ejected for deploying rhetorical tactics that are the antithesis of discourse.

You may not like that. You may not be used to that. Take all the time you need to adjust to it.

4: Take responsibility for your behaviour

It's a sad thing, but we do have to explain this multiple times a day to multiple people:

Someone else deploying flamebait is not an excuse for you taking the flamebait, and not an excuse for you deploying your own flamebait.

When we take moderation actions, we don't discuss those with third parties. We will not accept "But the guy above me ..." and "Why didn't you do XYZ to the guy above me ...".

If you see a troll, flamebait, slapfight - don't join in!

Downvote, Report, and BLOCK

If a flamewarbaiting troll responds to you, don't retort!

Downvote, Report, and BLOCK

We can and will banhammer people who choose to jump in to the gasoline fight.

AgainstHateSubreddits is against all hatred.

We are against antisemitic hatred; We are against islamophobic hatred.

It is possible - in a geopolitical conflict - for both sides (or ALL sides) of a conflict to be wrong, to be reprehensible.

October 7 2023 was a vile, horrific attack on Israelis by terrorists. This is not up for debate. If you feel or think that this violent act was justifiable - you have a deep spiritual sickness and need the kind of help that so rarely comes about in this world. You should start seeking it as if it were the water of life itself.

The Israeli response to October 7 2023 was to genocide Palestinians. This is not up for debate. It was and is a genocide - officers of the Israel government champ at the bit to commit ethnic genocide, and others speak out against it. Every legal definition of genocide applies to it. If you feel or think that this violent act was justifiable - you have a deep spiritual sickness and need the kind of help that so rarely comes about in this world. You should start seeking it as if it were the water of life itself.

Israel does not represent all Jewish people worldwide. Hamas does not represent all Palestinian people worldwide. Hell, Hamas is a terrorist organisation - it holds dissidents' families hostage, and uses extortion on the Palestinian people to maintain political power. And now we have armed Israeli settlers holding visiting US politicians at gunpoint - until the IDF intercedes.

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AHS has rules. One of those rules is

##Posts about Regional / Geographic / Ethnicity-focused subreddits must be in Good Faith.

#Reported as: International political slapfighting

> Posts claiming that a subreddit which is dedicated to a regional / country / ethnic group, is hosting a culture of hatred - must be reviewed by a moderator before being posted, and must be in Good Faith and with Clean Hands; AHS is not a proxy for international slapfights.

> Posts under this rule should be in English and provide significant amounts of citations for evidence, backing up the assertions.

The model for this rule was, in fact, people submitting posts about subreddits dedicated to Israel as islamophobic hate speech, and subreddits dedicated to Palestine as antisemitic hate speech. Purely on the premise that Israel is necessarily islamophobic, and that the existence of Palestine is necessarily antisemitic.

Subreddits for geopolitical compartments are not officially run by those geopolitical compartments. They are not the countries / governments / people themselves. Subreddits are only discussion forums.

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Another rule we have is that this is not a debate forum. You're not winning - or scoring points for - your preferred side in a virtual war, here. You're not going to write the Incredible Thesis Proving That Israel Didn't Commit A Genocide Against The Palestinian People As a Response to October 7th, AKSHULLY , here.

#This is not a debate forum. This is not your battleground. Your war cannot be forwarded here.

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#These are the Reddit Sitewide Rules that apply to speech targeting Jewish people, Israeli citizens, Palestinians, Arabs for hatred

❧ Hate Speech is a violation of the Reddit Sitewide Rules ☙

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>### Do not attack, incite harm, or discriminate against any individual or group based on their identity or vulnerability.

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>#####Who is covered?

>Individuals and groups marginalized or attacked on the basis of the following factors, or any other actual or perceived attributes used to reinforce existing inequality or promote exclusion:

>* Race, color, ethnicity, national origin, caste >* Religion >* Immigration status >* Gender, gender identity, sex, sexual orientation >* Disability >* Pregnancy >* Housing status, veteran status >* Victims of violent crimes and their families

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✿ Violent Threats are a violation of the Reddit Sitewide Rules ✿

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>### Remember the human and do not threaten, encourage, or glorify violence on Reddit.

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>#####This policy focuses on credible risks of real-world harm (including to oneself) or speech that genuinely makes others feel unsafe

>###What are some things that may violate this policy?

>* Threatening violence, such as directly or indirectly stating an intent to physically harm or attack an individual, a group, or a location. >* Inciting or encouraging violence, such as calling for others to commit violent acts, including through the use of coded references or memes with a known violent meaning. >* Glorifying or celebrating violent events, such as praising perpetrators of mass violence (e.g., mass shooters), sharing killers’ manifestos, or mocking the victims of violent tragedies. >* Terrorist Content >* Posting graphic or disturbing content purely to disgust or horrify users, such as sharing real-world gore without context or in unrelated communities, or sharing footage filmed by a perpetrator during an attack. >* Encouraging or glorifying suicide or self-harm. Importantly, while discussions about mental health struggles are allowed, it is a violation to promote self harm through imagery or text, or request or give instructions on how to self-harm. >* Promoting real-world sexual violence or sexual activity that involves severe physical injury or risk of death. >* Depicting or encouraging the malicious abuse or suffering of animals for entertainment.

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And because a bunch of people reading this are gearing up to scream "You're anti-Israel / Anti-Semitic!" or "You're Islamophobic for not being on our side!" - because of acknowledging that Israel committed / is committing a genocide in Gaza and Palestine, or that Hamas is a FTO, or not reciting the approved mantras of whatever side -

speaking just for myself -

I know in detail why Hamas is scheduled by the US Department of State as a FTO. In detail.

I know the antisemitic laws and policies of the Arab states surrounding Israel; I know the history.

And I know in great detail the international treaties between the USA and Israel - the mutual defense treaties, that require the USA to provide resources when Israel encounters a situation that can be classified to fit into one or more of the buckets outlined in those treaties. I know that the treaties have the same legal status under the US Constitution as the Constitution itself - they are the law of the land, and as such, require similar levels of effort to repeal or amend as amending the Constitution itself. I know the historical reasons those treaties were written. I know why Israel exists and why it has a legal right under international law to exist, on the land it had in 1967, 1968. I know why it gave land back to Egypt.

I also know what happened after October 7 2023.

There is a phenomenon called philosemitism. It's where a group - in this case, the United States GOP under Trump, which is highly antisemitic, instead of having a direct role of the Persecutor, sees another group taking the role of Persecutor of its victim, and instead it takes on a role of Rescuer of its target victims (in this case, the Jewish People) in order to gain social status and political power, to use the Jewish people as game pieces in their game of thrones. Pawns. Daddy, who will always come to the rescue. It reduces the Jewish people who submit to this relationship, to pawns. It's like being beholden to the Mafia. No independent existence, no dignity.

("Oh but the GOP loves israel and loves the jewish people and you can tell by their response to October 7th" - stop. stop talking. be silent. be quiet. I spent 2017-2020 up to my eyeballs in the rhetoric and speech and attitudes and policies of r/the_donald, its satellite communities, and long before that in the policies of the GOP in connection with "lobbying groups" like Liberty Lobby and other Christian Theocrat groups. The_Donald was the largest proponent of antisemitic hate speech on Reddit by volume and reach, surpassing r/holocaust and the subreddits explicitly created by violent neoNazis. Every Republican president was taking meetings with virulent antisemites. Billy Graham, exponent of the Southern Baptist ministry church, used his time with Nixon to impress upon him his view that Jewish americans were "strangling" American society through control of the media, and referred to them as "the Synagogue of Satan". Shhh. Be quiet. Sit down. Listen. The GOP did not flip overnight from the leading proponents of Antisemitism in America to the Champions of Israel. Shh. )

I like to think of myself as what US law calls "a reasonable person". I'm not Israeli; I'm not Jewish; but I do have a great admiration for the Tenth Man Rule, so named from Israeli policy arising out of the 1973 Yom Kippur War:

> In a group of ten people, if nine agree on a conclusion or course of action, it is the duty of the tenth person to disagree—regardless of how improbable it may seem that the other nine are wrong.

I was that "Tenth Man".

Back in 2020 AgainstHateSubreddits was approached and was asked to adopt the IHRA definition of antisemitism as our official definition of antisemitism.

We had a long, long, involved debate in the mod team about it. It ultimately hinged on the fact that just one clause - one - of the IHRA definition (if interpreted prescriptively) would absolve Israel of racist atrocities carried out, because any criticism of such would be labeled as antisemitism under that definition, prescriptively.

I was the "Tenth Man" in that discussion, arguing that the IHRA definition was developed as a short, non-binding, descriptive explanation of the kind of rhetorical tactics used by such known antisemitic groups as the KKK and Liberty Lobby, from the 1950's through to the 2000's. That it wouldn't be used to shield Israel from charges of racist policy, or genocide, because Israel's responses to terrorist aggression wouldn't ever be genocidal, asymmetric. Punitive, on the level of ethnic cleansing.

Ultimately we decided to not adopt the IHRA definition - because that clause, if used prescriptively, would be perversely used to shield Israel from legitimate criticism. A clause intended to explain to people that White supremacist claims of discrimination at the hands of Jewish Americans were in bad faith.

The genocide Israel carried out in response to October 7th?

The subsequent labeling of all outcry against it as antisemitism, even to citing the IHRA definition?

I wrote this 11 years ago. I probably would have written it on October 8th 2023, and probably even on October 9th 2023. "Israel has a right to its existence; Israel has a right to defend itself; The surrounding Wahabbist and Shia states were clearly the aggressors; Israel is in the right."

Sometime between October 7 2023 and January 1st 2025, though, the utterly asymmetric response by Israel to not just Hamas but all Palestine, and beyond into Lebanon -

It lost me.

You lost me.

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This is not a debate subreddit. We exist to organise to counter and prevent hate speech on Reddit.

You are not immune to hate speech.

Now that we have proof that the Trump Administration is targeting its political enemies for politically motivated trumped-up criminal investigations on the thinnest of pretexts, we presume that any and all posts and comments which even flirt with Aiding & Abetting of Violence (aiding, abetting, commanding, counselling, inducing, procuring, encouraging, celebrating, wishing for violence) are prima facie proof that the author is one or more:

• incapable of exercising wisdom;

• incapable of reading and following community rules and Reddit Sitewide Rules;

• possessed of a sociopathic disregard for the safety of others;

• inviting the audience to volunteer to be one of the subjects of the Trump DOJ witch hunts -

and will therefore be banned from this community.

#DO NOT POST NOR RESPOND TO ANYTHING IN THE VEIN OF:

"What if it happened today"

"Go, Cholesterol!"

"Too bad that kid missed"

"Giant Meteor 2026"

etc etc etc

If you do, we ban you.

Instead, try using the tiniest bit of imagination, and verbally wish for a world where Donald Trump and his cohort suddenly have a spasm of consciences, repent their evil, and put their ill gotten wealth towards realising world peace, housing, health care, and food for all.

Be a rebel - imagine and work towards a brighter future.

Just FYI - if you’re not already aware

Much of North Texas tests the emergency siren system at noon on the first Wednesday of the month, and that’s today

Have fun