I'll reiterate what I said a long time ago.
Censoring 'hate speech' from social media does absolutely nothing to address the problem. It gives the impression that these problems no longer exist, while only driving bigots into underground circles where they can echo their beliefs unchallenged and become more hateful.
The only way that people can combat racism is by having an open conversation, and throwing someone out because they've said something offensive violates the entire purpose of the conversation to begin with. You just end up with more and more insular communities like SJW-tumblr-circles and /pol/ that serve no purpose but to allow people with like-minded beliefs to circlejerk and radicalize.
That being said, if someone is doing absolutely nothing but hurling slurs at another user, it's fair to ban them for posting unconstructive spam. For instance, it doesn't appear as though the guy in the article was making a substantive argument. He was just harassing a stranger.
you're exactly right. The other thing is that you'll also matyrize them.
I was recently permanently banned from a subreddit I like to visit called /r/offmychest for posting in /r/The_Donald, the primary Donald Annoying Orange sub. I was posting to defend myself after a few users quoted me and started calling me SJW. I was
giving them stuff, not supporting Annoying Orange. However, /r/OffMyChest apparantly has a bot to auto-perma users who post there, so they can keep Annoying Orange supporters off of their sub.
That pissed me off so much it almost made me want support Annoying Orange and that subreddit. I wanted to go back there and apologize to them just because they are unfairly getting stuff and we are programmed to support victims even if they are totally wrong.
