User posts a definitive guide for avoiding NSBM (National Socialist Black Metal) to /r/Metal. /r/Metal is having none of it.

You are extrapolating a lot of nonsense from one comment thread with little context.

What am I extrapolating? That comment thread clearly and unambiguously used the excuse of "National Socialists not Nazis," as if it were a meaningful distinction.

Further down the line, a poster also describes UKIP, the EDL, Britain First and the Britain Defence League as "not spreading hate."

If you personally want to be an activist about not consuming art from awful people, you are more than welcome to, but that task is easier said than done.

Look, sure, I buy that argument. Having listened to a lot of Gangsta Rap in my lifetime, I've certainly learned how separate music from the people behind it.

The problem is that you're being disingenuous - you might make this argument, but those in the thread aren't. Rather than saying "yeah they're crazy and bad people but that doesn't impede their ability to write good riffs," they're explicitly minimising and downplaying these ideologies and attitudes by claiming that National Socialism is distinct from Nazism (which is explicitly false, National Socialism originated from and grounds itself exclusively in Nazi political thought). I really don't see how you could read that as anything but an apologetic for National Socialist ideology, but if you have an alternate reading, I'm all ears.

Also, again, an upvoted poster there seems to further engage in apologia for explicitly hateful and bigoted groups like the EDL by suggesting they apparently "don't spread hate," which should be a ridiculous claim on its face.

And if you look at that thread, people in the community don't seem to simply promoting the idea of "separating shitty people from art," nor are they suggesting someone is more than welcome to if they don't want to do so.

What they are doing is telling the poster to kill themselves for even suggesting this. The OP wasn't even telling them what they should or should not do, they just posted a guide for avoiding this music with the caveat that the community should "use it how they will," yet they will still told multiple times to kill themselves.

You can make claims about the loveliness of the community all you like, but the actual example we are presented with shows a community that upvotes Nazi and EDL apologia, while telling someone who wrote a guide to help those who (voluntarily!) want to avoid Neo-Nazi music to fuck off and kill themselves.

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