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=== The "Chimpire" ===
The term "Chimpire" refers to a collection of subreddits and affiliated websites that promoted anti-[[Black people|black]] [[racism]] and frequently used [[racial slurs]].<ref>{{
In June 2013, Reddit banned the subreddit {{proper name|r/niggers}} for engaging in vote manipulation, [[Incitement|inciting violence]], and disrupting other communities by posting racist content. Reddit general manager Erik Martin noted that the sub was given multiple chances to comply with site rules: "users can tell from the amount of warnings we extended to a subreddit as clearly awful as r/[[Nigger|niggers]] that we go into the decision to ban subreddits with a lot of scrutiny".<ref>{{cite news |last=Todd |first=Bridget |date=July 16, 2013 |title=Does Anything Go? The Rise and Fall of a Racist Corner of Reddit |work=[[The Atlantic]] |url=https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2013/07/does-anything-go-the-rise-and-fall-of-a-racist-corner-of-reddit/277585/ |url-status=live |access-date=March 6, 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170423154121/https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2013/07/does-anything-go-the-rise-and-fall-of-a-racist-corner-of-reddit/277585/ |archive-date=April 23, 2017}}</ref>
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