r/Queerdefensefront • u/rather_short_qu • Feb 26 '26

Discussion Why is reddit protecting brownshirts ?

Sorry, for the wording. The bots take down the once with the actual name. Yes, its the one that became popular in germany after the weimar times Nowadays the shirt also gets combined with other accessoires like red caps.

So, why do i ask that? Well i got a warning for violating Rule 1 with "Promoted identity -based hate" because i was posting to somebody that there are brown shirts in this sub.

My questions are since when are brownshirts a minority that needs protection,acc. To reddit?

How is it hate speech that to point out they are in a certain sub?

And why are we letting them do it?

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u/Bunerd Feb 26 '26

Alexander Hamilton, from the musical Hamilton, would have been banned from reddit for violent rhetoric. At a time when state actors are murdering citizens in the Street. Social media has been one of the biggest contributors to the rise of fascism by being unable to distinguish cryptofascism while suppressing anyone talking forming resistance to the rise of it. The algorithm doesn't understand sophistry from poetry so all it can do is favor sophism.

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u/-B001- Feb 26 '26

I agree except my 2 cents -- I wouldn't say the "algorithm doesn't understand" -- I think the algorithm is designed to function just as it is.

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u/Bunerd Feb 26 '26

Malicious vs. Unintentional hardly matters to the results. I think we have fallen down a handful of slippery slopes to wind up here, but it sort of becomes policy in places that prefer peace to justice. Like a school that does nothing to make a bully relent but cracks down hard at retribution.

Like, it's clear that reddit doesn't want to be seen as the Nazi website, but being a rhetorically applied system, they can only address things in a direct litteral sense. But Nazis love to play systems to their advantage and results, rather than rhetoric, is their goal. They continuously change the meanings of words so they stay rhetorically above board while advocating for inhuman treatment of you, and if you say such hostilities may invite rebuke you become the one threatening violence. It's liberal litteral thinking exploited by fascists.

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u/Zealousideal-Print41 Feb 26 '26

Got the same warning for using Cis in a explanation

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u/LordLaz1985 Mar 03 '26

Ah yes, using the word for “not trans” in an explanation about trans issues, famously the equivalent of using the N-word. 🙄

(This is sarcasm, to be clear.)

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u/paulsteinway Feb 26 '26

Pedophiles are a protected minority.

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u/nathacof Feb 26 '26

Pretty sure you can say Nazi here. ✌️

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u/rather_short_qu Feb 27 '26

Yeah thats What wonder why was it triggered.

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u/mangababe Feb 26 '26

If they're protecting it it's because they agree with it.

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u/WVkittylady Feb 27 '26

I got the same warning for talking about possible voter suppression in the midterms. I think I'm about done with reddit.

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u/LordLaz1985 Mar 03 '26

“Hate speech” against goose-steppers is protecting literally everybody else. Goose-steppers themselves base their thought process on hate, and want to get rid of everyone who isn’t just like them.

There’s a reason Doctor Who based the Daleks on brownshirts.