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Which far-left subreddits support and advocate the extermination of entire ethnic/religious groups?

Pretty much any subreddit that idolizes marxism, communism, the soviet union, or che guevara is in some way supporting or advocating the extermination of entire ethnic and religious groups. It's kind of hard to play the "only nazis want to kill people" when you have a soviet flag and hammer and sickle in your subreddit.

Proof of Soviet / Communist ethic cleansing:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Racism_in_the_Soviet_Union

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Population_transfer_in_the_Sov...

https://dash.harvard.edu/bitstream/handle/1/3229636/Martin%2...

Don't know why this got downvoted. Communism has killed more than Nazi's, so if we're banning Nazi's because they're a potentially violent threat, it follows that communism/marxist subreddits would also be banned.

Because Marxist Communism is about everyone being equal.

... and anyone who doesn't agree with Communism's version of that is an evil person who is promoting the exploitation of the downtrodden, and therefore inevitably will be violently opposed.

That is, though Marxist Communism talks about everyone being equal, it also talks about violence to those who disagree. And in practice, the violence has shown up more reliably than the equality has.

Equally oppressed under a government regime.

Governments of communist countries have killed millions, not communism itself. Communism is a political theory designed to try and support the common good and break a cycle of oppression and revolt. Hasn't worked in practice, probably won't, but it's certainly not a hate doctrine like Nazism.

Glorification of the USSR would be more complicated, and could be perceived as endorsing violence.

"Individuals of Nazi ideologies have killed millions, not naziism itself."

If we're banning one -ism because it's considered violent/hateful, we need to ban all of the -isms that are more hateful/violent.

The primary element of Nazism is violent racism. This is somewhat unique among political ideologies and makes these comparisons poor. If you ask a communist to describe their utopia, it almost certainly doesn't include millions of people being executed by the state. But ask a Nazi and it will.

Just because they don't describe it doesn't mean it doesn't happen.

Communist governments have killed more than Nazi governments. Banning one without the other is hypocritical.

Perhaps Reddit is okay with being hypocritical, just as long as they own up to it.

Have you met any tankies.

They do advocate for millions of class enemies to be killed.

Personally I feel, and I know many people disagree, that parallels between today and '30s are overrated.

While history can rhythm, the modern left and right have mythologized that period to the point it is unrecognizable.

People don't actually read books on WWII.

>>Communism has killed more than Nazi's

Only because the USA decided to enter WW2 and helped defeat Germany. If the Nazis had won you would be looking at greatly elevated body count numbers today. After all Hitler viewed Aryans as the master race and all other races inferior, and the extermination of the Jews was simply the beginning of his grand plan.

Don't conflate these. Glorification of the USSR is pretty bad, and is ignoring or endorsing a history of violence and oppression, similar to Nazi supporters. Advocating Communism is emphatically not the same thing, and has absolutely nothing to do with "the extermination of ethnic and religious groups."

"Glorification of the Nazi Germany is pretty bad, and is ignoring or endorsing a history of violence and oppression, similar to Soviet supporters. Advocating National Socialism is emphatically not the same thing, and has absolutely nothing to do with "the extermination of ethnic and religious groups. National Socialism can exist without "the extermination of ethnic and religious groups."

Its targets would be based on class.

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