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r/GasTheKikes

Banned · Hate

Ban record

Action: banned
Date: 2015
Reason category: Hate

Antisemitic hate speech inciting violence

Antisemitic community removed amid the 2015 hate-network purge; documented by the SPLC.

Part of October 2017 Violent-Content Policy Purge →

Related issues

Reddit's Delayed Ban of r/GasTheKikes and r/KikeTown (2015)

Sources

01
SPLC — Black Hole (Intelligence Report 2015)
News2015archived
02
Wikipedia — Controversial Reddit communities
Otherarchived
03
Reddit's ongoing bigotry problem — The Daily Dot
News2015