r/AgainstHateSubreddits • u/Bardfinn • 15h ago

Racism /r/OrangeCounty and /r/California operators enabling / encouraging anti-Roma hatred

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This shows a comment in /r/OrangeCounty promoting a hateful trope targeting Roma, including the use of an anti-Roma slur.

Comment was reported as hate speech, and a message was sent by me to the operators of r/OrangeCounty,

Comments like this violate Sitewide Rule 1 - https://old.reddit.com/r/orangecounty/comments/1xerpm7/car_scam_attempt/19rne87j6dli8/

Please take appropriate action in that thread, thanks

To which they replied

[Anti-Roma slur] is a descriptor for a subset of the Roma/Romani people who are scammers of various means. [Anti-Roma slur] is not being used to describe all persons of Roma/Romani descent and does not fall afoul of any reddit rules. We have already had the discussion with admins in the past over it. Since it doesnt break rules according to us and to the admins, we wont remove comments that mention [Anti-Roma slur] unless the are being used in a racial manner.

I responded with

I’ve filed a moderator code of conduct complaint covering all moderators of this subreddit for enabling / encouraging racist hate speech in violation of the Reddit User Agrement, Sitewide Rules, and Moderator Code of Conduct.

and as a consequence, the operators of r/OrangeCounty permanently banned me and permanently muted me; Additionally I have been permanently banned from and permanently muted from /r/California.

Anyone who participates in r/OrangeCounty and r/California who have concerns over the operators of these subreddits enabling and encouraging racist hate speech on Reddit can file a Moderator Code of Conduct Rule 1 complaint here

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r/AgainstHateSubreddits • u/dt7cv • 12h ago

🦀 Hate Sub Banned 🦀 r/random_memes banned for transphobia. Reddit claims its for "unmoderated"

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A confidential source had informed of excessive transphobia within 48 hours of the publication of this post. After reports, Reddit had determined to close the sub. Still collecting information on how long it has been going on

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