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{{Further|Reddit and Antisemitism}}
 
{{proper name|r/GasTheKikesGasThe[[Kike]]s}} was an [[antisemitism|antisemitic]] subreddit, the name of which alluded to the [[gas chambers]] used in the [[Holocaust]]. ''[[New York (magazine)|New York]]'' magazine described it as a "massive online Jew-hating community" among "the worst of the worst" subreddits.<ref name=":1">{{Cite news |last=Stangel |first=Jake |date=October 6, 2015 |title=Can Steve Huffman Save Reddit From Itself? |work=New York |url=https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2015/10/reddit-founder-steve-huffman.html |access-date=August 13, 2023}}</ref> The community was banned from Reddit,<ref name=":1" /> after which a successor subreddit named {{proper name|r/KikeTown}} took its place.<ref>{{Cite news |last=Clifton |first=Derrick |date=August 5, 2015 |title=Killing Reddit's most hateful subreddits won't exterminate its troll problem |work=The Daily Dot |url=https://www.dailydot.com/unclick/reddit-bigotry-content-moderation/ |access-date=August 13, 2023}}</ref> In 2015, {{proper name|r/KikeTown}} was first quarantined, then banned.<ref>{{Cite news |last=Sankin |first=Aaron |date=August 5, 2015 |title=Reddit bans racist communities as site updates content policy |work=The Daily Dot |url=https://www.dailydot.com/debug/reddit-bans-coontown-content-policy/ |access-date=August 13, 2023}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news |last=Kulwin |first=Noah |date=August 5, 2015 |title=Can't Have It Both Ways: The Trouble With Reddit's Content Policy Update |work=Vox |url=https://www.vox.com/2015/8/5/11615378/cant-have-it-both-ways-the-trouble-with-reddits-content-policy-update |access-date=August 13, 2023}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book |last=Lawson |first=Robert |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=5VKjEAAAQBAJ&pg=PA94 |title=Language and Mediated Masculinities: Cultures, Contexts, Constraints |date=2023 |publisher=Oxford University Press |isbn=978-0-19-008104-1 |pages=94 |language=en |quote=His findings showed that /r/The_Donald was more similar to /r/kiketown, /r/fatpeoplehate, r/TheRedPill, and /r/coontown, all controversial subreddits which promoted misogyny, racism, and hate speech (and all of which, bar /r/TheRedPill, have since been banned).}}</ref>
 
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