it's also interesting that r/socialism , r/anarchism , r/gamerghazi which are respectively socialist , anarchist and anti-gamergate forums are on the top of the list.
Well, from my experience hanging around in leftist subreddits, I can say there's an awful lot of loud and repeated objection to the Reddit admins harboring neo-nazi fora such as the aforementioned /r/european. Whether the admins allowing that speech is virtuous or villainous is a different debate, but the leftist subs routinely criticize Reddit the company for harboring actual Nazis.
There is an element of that, but it is frequently pushed back against.
It's mostly people who are dismayed by this recent migrant madness and the resultant massive spike in horrible crimes.
It is ostensibly also just a place for discussion of european culture but attention to the migrant madness, and seeking political solutions for it dominates the conversation because the issue is so heavily censored elsewhere on reddit.
edit: And it's highly likely that the vast majority of occurences of the string 'nazi' in that sub are in the context of satirical postings like, Oh, you think borders should be secure and rapists should be prosecuted? You must be a nazi!
Some choice comments include "sieg heil, NSB (Dutch fascists) was not wrong," comments about "negroid France," calls to poison halal food, issues they find with the survival of the white race due to the "blacks" and Muslims.
It is not a place for discussion of European culture. It is a vile cesspool of racists and hate.
Also on the front page, 4chan in-jokes and donald trump's face. I somehow doubt most of the posters actually live in Europe, as opposed to the typical /pol crowd latching onto a convenient issue.
Yeah, it makes me wonder if cb18 isn't right there among them to be so willfully ignorant of its true nature. His posting history here suggests sympathy to the /r/european mindset (e.g. citing infowars about crime statistics specifically to paint black people en masse as inherently more criminal, citing a ridiculous blog that says most advances in modern history are only due to white people, etc.)
No, you're describing elements of /r/europe. /r/european is a straight up neo-nazi white supremacist forum that occasionally operates under the guise of being concerned about extremist immigrants.
There's literally a stickied post about Holocaust denial right now.
Quite. One of my flatmates in the mid 1990s was the brother of a member of Combat 18, a UK-based neo-Nazi group, which fuelled my subsequent suspicion of anybody with 18 in their pseudonym. But there are of course many possible reasons for choosing that number, so I was hoping to hear the truth from the horse's mouth so to speak.
This isn't the first time I've asked cb18 why 18. Should I see another comment from them along similar lines, I'll ask again.
