(TW: racial slurs, anti-gay slurs)

Recently, the moderators of the largest hate sub on Reddit, CoonTown, have made some moves intended to shore up their precarious position on the site. It is actually quite comical to watch at times. For example, they added a Chicana to the moderating team, a move questioned by some in the community. The mods are also much quicker to delete the most explicit calls to violence, which is a good thing. They are out all over Reddit trying to convince everyone that they don’t actually hate black people, despite their name and the fact that they can’t resist rejoicing every time a black person dies.

Let’s not kid ourselves. They’re on their best (still shockingly bad) behavior now because they know they’re being watched. A survey of the subreddit taken just before the announcement of the new content policy gives us a great deal of insight into the real CoonTown.

1571 users (about 9% of its users at the time) responded to the survey. The demographics aren’t surprising - it is overwhelmingly male (92%) and white (88%), though there are a sprinkling of nonwhites and women in the group. More than 68% are between the ages of 18-32, and only a little over one-third have a bachelor’s degree or higher. Most are conservative (37%) or libertarian (30%); another 29% identified themselves as either white nationalists or national socialists.

In contrast to their recent protestations that people in CoonTown don’t actually hate black people, when asked to rank their hatred on a scale of 0 (”#BlackLivesMatter”) to 10 (”Ben Garrison”) 74% of respondents ranked their hatred of blacks at a 7 or higher.



One question asks, “What would be your solution to the nigger problem?” Here participants could choose more than one response. Reflecting the predominant political orientation of respondents, the statement that received the most support was “Cut welfare and policies that encourage bad behavior” (68%). Forty percent supported “Financial incentives for sterilization” and 31% supported “Financial incentives for segregation or repatriation.” Twenty-six percent supported mandatory segregation, 24% supported mandatory “repatriation” (I place this in quotes because how can you “repatriate” people to a place where they’ve never lived?), and 15 percent selected “Arbeit macht frei,” referencing the slogan at the gates of Auschwitz - in other words, genocide.

Let’s unpack those last three options, shall we? It won’t take long, because this is advocating violence, plain and simple. You can’t require people to leave their homes, their nations, and, in many cases, their families, without some level of violence. The Holocaust reference is only slightly more obvious.

But no one on CoonTown supports violence. No, not really.

Except actually, quite a lot of them do, as seen above and in the most disturbing part of the survey, where participants could respond to the question, “Any final comments on niggers?” Along with statements such as “The real threat is the white leftist faggots that genuinely believe they’re doing good” and the occasional “I don’t hate all niggers, just the obvious ones everybody should hate,” there are plenty of unambiguous calls to violence. Each screenshot linked below contains at least two (and frequently more).

“prepare for the end or die like the rest”



“Send them all to Africa or Ben ‘Emptying My Nine in the Welfare Line’ Garrison will”

“literally gas them all and make their children watch, then sell the youngin’s back to africa”



“sieg heil racial holy war 14/88″



“white man nearly eradicated one race (injuns). white man can do it again”



There is also at least one CoonTown user who could really use more mental health services and less time in the echo chamber.

Now, it’s obvious that most of the people in this group will never act on these impulses alone. When asked, “Are you open about your views on niggers?” 18% said they keep their views to themselves, and another 59% only share them with friends & family. But the same could probably be said for the average Stormfront user, and from the experience of that website we can say with certainty that it only takes a few radicals feeding off the “idle chatter” in the echo chamber to do a lot of damage.

Shut it down now, Reddit, before it’s too late.