R/News removes 500+ comments (92%) in thread about illegals removing American flag and raising Mexican flag

349    13 Jul 2019 14:27 by u/landon912

47 comments

94 u/Drew1231 13 Jul 2019 14:51
Completely civil comments removed and the thread locked. This is what this sub is all about.
44 u/Sugreev2001 13 Jul 2019 15:34
Leftists love their censorship. There are no right or wrong answers according to them, only forced acceptance of their views.
-39 u/ThirdeyeReddit 13 Jul 2019 15:42
News is not the leftist subreddit. The thread was locked because the mod said there was over 70 comments calling the Mexicans offensive names as well
30 u/[deleted] * 13 Jul 2019 16:10
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-28 u/ThirdeyeReddit 13 Jul 2019 16:37
There was only 150 comments lol?
15 u/mostnormal 13 Jul 2019 17:28
So it's okay to censor even the benign ones because there weren't more? Small groups of dissenters are so much easier to censor lol! /s
5 u/bobotwf 14 Jul 2019 00:50
Did you read the deleted comments? Or are you just taking the mod's word for it?
0 u/ThirdeyeReddit 14 Jul 2019 16:44
I didn't realize this was a right leaning board. Explains the outrage.
1 u/xxb4xx 15 Jul 2019 23:37
Think of this place as the centre. Some threads go a touch left, some go a touch right. We are in the middle of r/news and r/cringeanarchy. Except, have a look which one of those 2 subs still exist.
4 u/IBiteYou 14 Jul 2019 01:00
But the mods MANUALLY REMOVED INOFFENSIVE COMMENTS.
22 u/DrReynaldoBojangles 13 Jul 2019 18:35
The words nazi and fascism have lost all meaning as well. Clown planet loading, 92% installation complete.
13 u/azriel777 13 Jul 2019 23:53
r/news has been turned into r/politics
11 u/Spezzit 14 Jul 2019 01:06
always has been
3 u/_bani_ 14 Jul 2019 05:50
authoritarians are gonna authoritarian.
73 u/aeyntie 13 Jul 2019 14:38
most of those comments are what I would expect to see on a news story like this. I guess reddit doesn't want everyone to know people give a shit about what replacing the American flag with another represents.
46 u/UsernameIWontRegret 13 Jul 2019 14:53
I was reading through the comments this morning and didn’t see a single racist or offensive comment. They were all along the lines of “see, this is proving Trump’s point”.
31 u/[deleted] * 13 Jul 2019 16:11
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12 u/readypembroke 13 Jul 2019 20:56
Yeah, free thinking isn't allowed at all.
4 u/CTU 14 Jul 2019 00:59
Well clearly the mods think that saying trump was right about anything is "problematic".
33 u/Fippy-Darkpaw 13 Jul 2019 14:56
I thought foreign interference was bad? 🤔
17 u/Cytokine-Storm 13 Jul 2019 17:39
"I thought..." You're a thought criminal! 😉
17 u/NoxiousNick 13 Jul 2019 19:16
tfw you spent two years trying to impeach a president over a foreign interference conspiracy so you try to kick off your own campaign by answering debate questions in a foreign language.
12 u/girlwithswords 13 Jul 2019 20:40
Couple of them actually went to Mexico to campaign, and helped people cross illegally too. So.... Ya...
15 u/[deleted] * 13 Jul 2019 22:59
I got banned from r/news for a comment with 581 upvotes in that thread. https://www.reddit.com/r/news/comments/ccliux/protesters_at_ice_facility_in_aurora_pull_down/eto5y4a/
7 u/[deleted] 14 Jul 2019 00:27
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11 u/[deleted] 14 Jul 2019 00:34
quote from the ban message: >If a white Irish-American does something you don't like, you presumably have never told them "go back to Ireland". But your reaction to Mexican Americans doing something you don't like is "go back to Mexico". Clear racism. Basically a racist mod assuming that I was racist. I honestly would like to see all illegal aliens tossed out of the country regardless of their country of origin, especially Canadians and Europeans.
10 u/[deleted] 14 Jul 2019 00:58
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8 u/[deleted] 14 Jul 2019 01:02
I think there is a group of power mods that took power in most of the default subs over the years that decided to systematically ban anyone who disagrees with their agenda. I tried going to voat when it started, but those people were equally as bad as the liberal mods making reddit a shit show.
1 u/flatticusRising 14 Jul 2019 14:04
Voat is 4chan formatted to look like reddit. Way too much open racism over there for me.
2 u/wildbill3063 14 Jul 2019 09:35
Holy shit there are sane people on reddit. I love this thread.
0 u/Illuminaughtyy 06 Aug 2019 16:19
So you consider people that have lived in a country since birth immigrants if they don't follow some kind of purist bloodline?
1 u/[deleted] 06 Aug 2019 17:50
where did you get that from?
1 u/Illuminaughtyy 07 Aug 2019 13:29
I got it from where you said this: >I honestly would like to see all illegal aliens tossed out of the country regardless of their country of origin, especially Canadians and Europeans.
1 u/[deleted] 07 Aug 2019 13:51
Illegal aliens aren't people that have lived in a country since birth. They are people who violated the law to enter or overstayed their VISA, and refuse to leave when lawfully ordered to do so. It shouldn't matter what your country of origin is, if you are in violation of US immigration laws, GTFO.
1 u/Illuminaughtyy 07 Aug 2019 13:56
Ah, see I thought by how you were saying it that you thought anyone of European descent is illegal, such as those in the mestizo movement do.
1 u/[deleted] 07 Aug 2019 14:02
No I stated that to head off the Jerks who would claim I only want to have people of hispanic heritage kicked out of the country, but I'd like very illegal alien to get the boot, because the laws need to be applied fairly. I would like to say, that I welcome anyone to apply for entry and residency in the USA through the legitimate channel, there is great demand for immigrate to the USA so you might need to wait in line as out immigration system already processes the most immigrants in the world.
1 u/Illuminaughtyy 07 Aug 2019 15:27
That's funny because I know multiple skilled immigrants that would love a Visa. Could you please point me in a direction of this great demand? Oh, they might need to wait. Perhaps "great demand" is a bit of an exaggeration, then?
1 u/[deleted] 07 Aug 2019 16:07
>Could you please point me in a direction of this great demand? look it up, more people want to immigrate into the USA than our system and country in general can handle. This causes a waiting list.
1 u/Illuminaughtyy 07 Aug 2019 16:37
So in other words your great demand is overwhelmed by even greater supply?
1 u/[deleted] 07 Aug 2019 16:56
The supply is the number of people the USA can take in yearly. Our economy can only create so many new jobs and we have an ongoing housing deficit. The USA already welcomes more immigrants than any other country on the planet, the demand is from people wanting to enter the country.
8 u/Stehpinkler 13 Jul 2019 18:57
Reddit is a fantasy world that offers relief from the real world. Escapism is the goal, and they call it "safe spaces" and other such names. It is still just escapism though, no matter what you call it.
7 u/[deleted] 13 Jul 2019 22:55
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3 u/weiss27md 14 Jul 2019 00:40
Mod says the comments were racist but I doubt it. They just say that when the comments are not what they wanted them to be.
2 u/CTU 14 Jul 2019 01:00
The mods just want an echo chamber
1 u/joedude 14 Jul 2019 08:24
Change the r to c in the link and look at all the milquetoast boomeresque comments about civility and respecting the flag regardless of politics; that when read by a mod, transform into a personal attack and racist tirade.
3 u/JGar453 14 Jul 2019 01:41
Even people in the thread who are liberal can agree how stupid this is but of course mods got an agenda
2 u/joedude 14 Jul 2019 08:26
Well the website is for normie shit heads now and turns out they have middle of the road opinions, opinions that translate into personal attacking racist tirades when viewed by a mod. Cant have those opinions of average prudent folks being seen!