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I really like the attitude of the voat founders expressed in this article:

Has the fatpeoplehate group been hard to deal with?

This group posted an image of us and called us fat. Instead of removing the image and banning the entire group, we decided to change our lives...

I wish this attitude were more common in the world.

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Getting shamed into acquiescence doesn't sound very healthy to me and certainly doesn't excuse the actions of this group. It's not as if this group is providing constructive criticism to say the least. Also, what if this were {insert_ethnicity}peoplehate? It's not as if the person on the receiving end can change being {insert_ethnicity}.

That might work if someone is overweight. Now, what if someone posts a message saying "kill urself faggot"

> That might work if someone is overweight

We know it doesn't.

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