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View submission: What would I do?
I think what so many people seem to miss is that hate speech needs to be explicitly banned, and if it isn't the community will *always* tend toward white supremacy.
This is because by allowing a community to be a safe space for hate speech, you automatically make it unsafe for people from marginalized communities - people who are already dealing with that kind of thing in their everyday lives, and who are already living under threat of violence inspired by those ideas. These people are very unlikely to have the capacity to sit around and combat the hate speech, and it's insulting to expect them to justify their right to exist in the first place.
Eventually they leave, and the community consists entirely of people who are comfortable with hate speech.
If you make a space safe for bullies, eventually the bullies will run the show.
There's nothing here!