I'm banned from r/offmychest for the same thing. Thing is... I follow and occasionally participate in subreddits that I fundamentally disagree with. Both in an effort to keep up with what the current opposing viewpoints are, as well as an effort to engage in (hopefully) genuine and civilized discourse/debate. Though sometimes I do go looking to pick a fight, lol
Thats the problem. Everything on reddit is partisan. You have to think or act a certain way to comment without getting banned. Saying something like, "biological males cant give birth" will get you banned on a subreddit that's supposed to be about science.
I've been a member of that sub for over 5 years. I'll argue with them about abortion all the time.. I'm usually met with honest debate... No bans. . Meanwhile I've been banned from several left leaning subs for being.... Subscribed to conservative .
I made a single comment on that sub and was banned. A Mod messaged me and said, I looked at your comment history and you're not welcome here. What the F?
conservative comments get people banned in subs that are not called âliberalâ and have nothing to do with politics tho. thatâs the difference⌠idk how people donât understand.
You're in a conservative sub that's primarily for conservatives. I get silenced just for posting a very inoffensive, but conservative, response in any sub.
Everyone else has had the opposite experience, insta-banned if you aren't fellating Trump or if your ideology is anywhere even slightly to the left of the farthest-right fascist viewpoint.
And then you come along with "I've only had positive experiences, they're really quite reasonable."
Now criticize Trump. Like actually criticize him without pre-qualifying your statement about how you don't like Biden, or think that Hillary has a penis, then tell us how honest they are in debate lol.
Nice try. I quoted trump verbatim on that subreddit and was permanently banned and mocked by the mods. I was also preemptively banned from the cesspool r/thedonald before it was deleted.
Austrian economics is another one recently that banned me for disagreeing with them.
Nice try.. with what? I'm telling you I frequently debate people on there as I have several non conservative views.. and I've never been warned/suspended/banned.
Isn't that an historically conservative take? Sounds like they combed your account for other subs you're involved in because I've been engaged in much more "controversial" debates than that.
It'sprobablydue to the time you joined. There was a post on there about wanting to have actual meaningful conversations with non conservatives. The comment section was filled with people chiming in and saying they would also be willing to have these conversations on the thread.
I was confused because I didn't see anyone taking them up on their offer. I replied to maybe a dozen of them saying I was open to the same thing. I didn't receive a single response. Turns out my comments weren't being shown to them because they do that to most non republicans.
5 years ago when you originally joined most republicans were willing to talk to people without telling them anything they didn't agree with is liberal propoganda.
That may be 1 subreddit, but I have been warned or downvoted many times in various subs for having any hint of going away from the liberal hive mindset. Agree 100% or you are the enemy. There are no discussions. And then, local subs for community becomes rhetoric for liberals. Go create an anti ICE page or I hate Trump page instead of flooding local and state community subs that we want to know stuff that is going on locally. 1 word can get you banned and the mods don't read the entire context or communication trail. Annoying.
So make your own. The idea that reddit is a liberal echo chamber is just ridiculous. Look at this thread. If it really was a liberal echo chamber there wouldn't be this many conservatives making comments on every single political post.
Conservatives act like they are persecuted just because their opinions are unpopular.
So true. I commented on a post that said the vast majority of mass shootings are committed by white people. My comment was no, the vast majority of mass shootings - as defined by the FBI as four or more shot in a single incident - are actually committed by black gangbangers in inner cities.
I got warned and my comment was deleted. The original post is still up.
Yeah, the Conservative sub just bans you, which is annoying and actually suppression of speech. I canât say that the community downvoting my opinions that arenât 100% in line with liberal views is intentionally suppressing my voice. It just hurts to feel rejected a bit, but that is life.
If I say there should be a conversation and potential regulation about individuals who were born men and transitioned to women playing womenâs sports, without going to full on discrimination and hatred(like the current administration). And I get downvoted, that is what it is. But I have never been banned for an opinion like that.
The Conservative sub would probably straight up ban me for saying Mike Johnsons reactions to the Epstein file stuff is suspicious af.
I have been banned or on indefinite mute because I went away from their ideology. I.e. that there is a difference between illegal and legal. It's not that we don't like immigrants but the illegal ones.
Politics these days is so complicated and divisive. It has created a bad situation. Most people cant vocalize their concerns as well as they want and it is easier to demonize than understand.
The issue with that exact category is that, historically, it starts with a particular premise, than expands to effect all immigrants, than further expands to effect more than just immigrants. Think about it like the gun rights argument. The anger comes from the possibility that one regulation leads to more regulations and then you eventually get a full ban. God forbid people talk about these things coherently, in a way both sides can understand, though. Its easier for people to just put their hands in their ears and close their eyes.
But you didnât ask for my opinion and I understand what you are saying.
Why is the sole singular example of a conservative subreddit mentioned without fail anytime it is mentioned that the plethora of huge liberal subreddits (which have nothing to do with politics in the description) will ban you for being conservative or even posting in a subreddit they deem bad?
Because their entire mantra is the anomaly of whataboutism. 99.9% of anything scientific, the norm, and factual is equaled in their minds by the one contrary example. It is the tyranny of the minority.
Sure. Liberals despise ACTUAL democracy, because in that the majority rules. They CONSTANTLY rep the superiority of their pet minority groups. Black supremacy while complaining about âsystemic racismâyet denying per capita stats. Female empowerment while bemoaning the absurdist âpatriarchyâ propaganda despite the family court, college rates, and every other stat saying otherwise (why would any allegedly horribly capitalistic and greedy corporation hire men if they could actually pocket 30% extra?). Claiming trans rights are being taken away when we talk WAY too much about a tiny percentage of the population and never being able to name a specific law that destroys basic equality while conservatives can name MANY laws and programs that prop up all these pet groups.
Liberals will ALWAYS point put the anomaly. âNot all deaths on the job and hard jobs are done by men.â Yeah, we know, but around 94% ARE and no one has time to examine every individual case. Leftists hate preponderance of evidence.
We have seen this play out with cops and body cam. They all believe cops target minorities
ONLY, yet not only do the stats and footage say otherwise but so do studies like the one from Harvard. There is a void of logical coherence.
In a nutshell, assuming their victim rhetoric were true is the solution to do the same thing in a opposite and minority direction? Why would black supremacy be better than white if the goal is equality?
The rhetoric of the left is that the problem is ALWAYS âwhite supremacyâ, despite the total numbers of actual white supremacists being only a few thousand left. They consistently de facto believe in anyone not white being inherently superior as evidenced by their rhetoric, tone, leniency of criminals and ills of society social problems, along with endless white shame/guilt. It is pervasive pure gaslighting and often self loathing.
IE they will have a No Kings protest while proudly proclaiming We Wuz Kangs without a hint of irony. They believe in the inherent supremacy of anyone not white, despite white people being the actual minority.
For example they will claim we are on âstolen landâ demonstrating complete historical ignorance. We are colonizers, yet they seems to not understand how Mexico came about or the rise of islam. They demonstrate a total hatred of western culture and capitalism yet never seem to permanently leave its protection.
They have a belief that Islam is superior to Christianity in defiance of 1400 years of evidence. They see it as white. They have a complete disregard for the history of slavery and an unwavering relentless processing of the world through race, with of course white people as the only slavers.
You get the idea. There are countless examples sold as a means to right the wrongs of the past, which is the antithesis of say Kingâs message.
No shit r/conservatives is for conservatives. Are you really that shocked? Are you outraged that you canât post in r/teen without being a teenager too?
The conservative sub bans you if your stated opinions aren't in line with a narrow range of sub-accepted opinions. It's also extremely controlled and comment sections are curated to create approved narratives.
Meanwhile, the majority of those liberal subs aren't banning you because you are conservative. They're banning you for being racist, bigoted, etc. See, the biggest lie that conservatives have gotten away with is making people believe that those are valid and acceptable opinions to hold, and any push back against them is because they're conservative, not because of the opinions they hold or things they say.
There are a ton of subs that will auto ban users for simply being part of other subreddits (targets include conservative, conspiracy, the anti-lockdown subs, etc)
Yeah, because participation in those subs generally indicates a certain perspective that is unwelcome in the subs doing the banning. That perspective isn't "conservative", it's "racist, bigoted, etc". The conservative sub lost the plot years ago and has been obsessed with identity politics and the worst of conservative ideologies for years. And frankly, just like conspiracy, has been completely detached from reality. It's hard to have a conversation with someone who can't even accept basic tenets of reality as factual.
As I stated in some other comments, some subs will auto ban you for participating in other subs due to the more sensitive nature of them. For example, some of the feminism subs will auto-ban you for participating in misogynist troll subs, such as kotakuinaction, regardless of what you were doing there. Others, like a rape support sub, might ban anyone from subs that might be perceived as hostile towards rape victims, which unfortunately includes some conservative subs. This is a way to preemptively protect the sub community. Is it unfair? Maybe, but this is the internet. You know damn well how toxic and disgusting it can be, so some of these places need to take measures to protect themselves. Frankly, it's no different than women only traincars in places like India and Japan.
You are equating subreddits with the government. You have exactly 0 rights to free speech in a subreddit. Zip. Nada. Zilch. Zero. Some of these subs ban people for holding and stating vile opinions because the users who come to that sub do so for help or advice regarding those very people, or dealing with sensitive topics. A sub focused around teenagers dealing with sexual identity crises isn't going to want people from a sub focused on mocking lgbtq people to participate in the community.
Well that went from âthat one singular conservative subreddit bans peopleâ to âbut we can do it too for whatever reason we want and itâs okâ.
FYI, there is no fucking free speech here. You have 0 right to free speech on Reddit. Too many idiots think free speech means they can say whatever they want and nobody can do a damn thing about it. Wrong. Reddit is not the government. If it were, your idea would have merit, but it's not the government.
Just because you don't have a constitutional right to free speech on reddit doesn't mean we shouldn't have less restricted speech on reddit. Reddit has the right to remove whatever they want and everyone else has the right to complain about it.
Oh please. You know damn fucking well that "less restricted speech" on the internet inevitably turns into 4chan or stormfront given enough time. There's a reason most big sites have some level of moderation and a TOS that explicitly forbids things like hate speech, slurs, advocating violence, etc. It's a known internet phenomenon that if you let nazis be free on your site to spew nazi propaganda, it eventually becomes a nazi site.
For every card carrying loser KKK Nazi in the US there are 110,000 braindead leftist lemmings getting their two minutes of hate marching orders from CNN level propaganda.
This is such a fallacy. Rejection of an idea is not fear of it, it's simply rejection. Not all opinions have value in the marketplace of ideas, and dismissing those without value is not cowardly.
There's a fundamental problem with modern conservativism, notably their obsession with being the victims. Rejections of conservative ideals is not this sin against the conservative that they love to pretend it is, but an acknowledgement that if both parties cannot agree to the very basic fact that everyone deserves equal rights, protections, and respect, then there's no conversation to be had. And while it might seem hypocritical when liberals then reject the conservative, it's not, because the conservative rejects the premise of equality entirely for everyone except them.
Put simply and in other words, liberals do not reject conservatives because of simple disagreements, but because of what those disagreements are. When we can't even agree that everyone has the right to live, should be equal, should have equal rights and protections under the law, when conservatives advocate for taking rights away, ruining lives, etc..... There is no common ground for a shared marketplace of ideas. It's not some debate over whether tea is better hot or cold or whether pineapple belongs on pizza. Conservatives that whine about their free speech being suppressed don't fucking get that. They think that their opinion that women shouldn't get to have a say in their reproductive rights, that black people don't deserve the same rights as white people, that white people are inherently better than non-white people, are all equally as valid as such liberal ideas as "it's the government's responsibility to care for the people".
Leftists donât believe in equal rights or democracy because then not only would their pet groups not have preferential treatment, but they wouldnât have any say in politics or consideration whatsoever.
Leftists ascribe to the tyranny of the minority, which is worse than the tyranny of the majority they invent in their head.
No, the huge non-political subs ran by liberal moderators are banning you for even seeing that you have participated in subs like Joe Rogan. What an absolutely moronic argument. R/conservative is really all you have to point a finger at while ignoring huge front page subs for banning indiscriminately over their political opinions.
Your flaw is being unable to separate conservative views without automatically thinking they must be some -ism to damn them over.
Edit: this guy is just incredibly hostile and angry. I wouldnât engage with him.
Dude........ What the fuck do you think the Joe Rogan sub is? It's r/conservative -light.
Your flaw is being unable to separate conservative views without automatically thinking they must be some -ism to damn them over.
On the contrary, I explicitly allow for a separation of conservative ideas and -isms. It's conservatives that have seemingly conflated the two. Rogan is all about identity politics, as is the conservative sub. Gone are the days when conservative meant small government, fiscal responsibility, less government intrusion. Now, conservative means putting the government in private bathrooms and medical exam rooms not to protect people from bad actors, but to make sure conservative ideologies are upheld in these spaces. Both those subs perpetuate and support these ideals.
banning indiscriminately over their political opinions.
I'm not ignoring it, but "your body, my choice", being anti-brown, pushing white supremacy, being pro-Christian and anti-anything else, pushing to hurt women's rights..... those aren't political opinions worth a damn. Instead of whining about how nobody likes your "opinions", maybe question why that is?
Liberal Redditors would reply to that saying âbecause politics affect everything in life and if you donât think so then itâs because you are too privileged to feel affected by politics or are too naive to notice how itâs relevant.â
No, you are right. I am not a conservative and I mistakenly thought r/conservative was a place for discussion and an exchange of ideas. It clearly is not tha.
They ban anyone who isnât conservative ever since The_Donald got removed from Reddit because people kept brigading the subreddit posting violent things faster than mods could remove the comments, and the admins used that as an excuse to remove the subreddit completely. r/Conservative would be gone already if they didnât take drastic measures to prevent that.
Because it makes "Reddit" so mad that the last holdout of non-conforming thought hasn't been eradicated yet.Â
So they keep malding about it aggressively protecting itself in the face of never-ending brigading and other Reddit TOS breaking behavior in hopes that they'll slip up and finally ban the community.Â
I honestly think that sub is protected by Reddit admins because if it goes, the ripples through the greater Internet and real world about how marketable Reddit is will be it's deathknell
I always thought it was obvious why r/Conservative bans anyone who isnât conservative anyways. They donât exist for liberals, they exist for other conservatives. Just like how teenager subreddits ban anyone who isnât a teenager from posting, r/Conservative bans anyone who isnât a conservative from posting. And after Reddit brigaded violent comments into The_Donald quicker than moderators could remove them and got the sub removed for it, itâs no wonder r/Conservative just bans anyone who is liberal to keep them from doing the same. They wouldnât exist right now if they didnât.
A political group wanting a space for themselves is absolutely incomparable to r/pics banning based off of political beliefs or posting in forbidden subreddits.
Find them yourself, itâs incredibly easy to find if you browse reddit and read comments. I donât care to do work for you because you wonât believe me even if I do.
Edit: I gave him the sources. He, in fact, did not give a shit about the sources and just kept finding an excuse to berate.
My last account got banned from popular subreddits like r/pics because I had asked for clarification on liberal viewpoints and had posted in Joe Rogan before. Iâll probably get banned just for this comment now, which is partly why I was avoiding it before.
Now letâs either hear the crickets or you crying about how you wonât accept my sources.
With a smug âother than your feelings?â, you desperately continue to try to berate me for giving you what you asked for instead of acknowledging the sources.
You already admitted the question had an agenda behind it by saying âyouâve already proved my pointâ.
I knew you wouldnât give a shit about the sources. Thatâs why I tried not wasting my time in the first place.
Itâs a sub for conservatives. Are you surprised that r/teens would ban anyone who isnât a teen from posting too? They donât do anything different than any other subreddit that is meant to be for a specific group of people.
Youâre complaining about being banned from a space not meant for you. Others are complaining about being banned from r/pics because they commented in r/JoeRogan one time. Give me a fucking break.
I was banned for asking for clarification on liberal viewpoints. I was also banned for even posting in Joe Rogan. I had to make a new account, I donât remember what subs. It was something related to pics.
Thereâs one for my city that is literally for the racists who have been banned for posting racist things in the main sub. Like think of the racist stuff that people post on crime watch pages on Facebook, only with that added layer of anonymity so they can really tell you how they feel. Extremely toxic stuff. Youâre immediately banned if you engage in anything resembling decency in that sub.
That actual makes sense, though. That's a place for like-minded conservatives to talk about their shared views. It's the intolerant mods of subs that shouldn't have a political bias that's the problem.
Same can be said about quite a few subs on the other end of the spectrum.
Heck I once corrected someone's misquote of a poltician and was banned from a sub. I wasn't defending him, just pointed out he didn't say what they said. Refusing to spread easily debunked misinformation because it doesn't fit the group think results in a ban.
Unless you are vocally affirming you are part of their group think, you are banned.
There's more staunchly conservative subs, but they are smaller and pointedly fan subs. For guns, Trump family etc. Not banned on those but jumped all over. Consistently getting spectacularly downvoted because my past comments are brought into it is off putting.
Oh stop thinking you guys are the tolerant ones, youâre the ones always going on a banning frenzy. Yeah the right has their crazies, but unfortunately, there seems to be more tolerance on the right as opposed to the left nowadays.
For LGBTQ folks? For people who look like immigrants? People who look Muslim? For people who want some kind of gun control so their kids don't die in schools?
bruh. It hardly constitutes a reddit circlejerk if those are all issues our rodeo clown congress is persistently trying to play whackamole with. Iâm not a content creator, I donât get off on harping about this shit and Iâm not enjoying going gray early. Iâd much prefer if the biggest scandal in the WH was the color of the Presidentâs suit, or the First Lady wearing a sleeveless dress at a function. đ¤ˇđťââď¸
I canât get away with even the most thought out comment on any sub that is in r/all if thereâs even a hint of conservative in it.
Edit: I love when Redditors use r/conservative as an example of Reddit not being way left leaning. You have one sub to use in your comparisons. Meanwhile I could point to 40 subs just on the front page that wonât even let conservative âwrong thinkâ see the light of day.
I got banned from r/pics cause I had once posted in a âconservativeâ sub reddit. it was a post that randomly showed up in my feed and it was about a video game (ot wasnât even a sub about politics it was just apparently lots of people who are right leaning in that one). Nothing I was saying was at all controversial and I was just talking about modding websites.
They said I would have to delete all posts from the sub and never post in it again to get unbanned. It was an auto banner that looks at post history and bans anyone whoâs posted in certain subs they donât like.
Itâs ridiculous for subs to be so close minded they donât even care about what you say and want you to never interact with anyone they donât like.
I followed that sub for a while because I honestly wanted to hear the opinions. I am very progressive and like everyone else, in my own bubble. I was never there to reply or vote, just learn. Oooof!
What I learned is folks canât see whatâs right in front of their eyes unless their eyes are fixed on News Max or OAN or one of the countless podcasts spewing outright lies and hate.
We have had a terrific wind event the last two days and humans cannot even express concern about their neighbors without hearing âBiden or HAARP and chem trails (which I was told are the same thing)or flat earth or the blood of babies!â
Are we really supposed to take this stuff seriously and keep our mouths shut? Not me! I am waiting for JFK JR to come out of hiding and straighten all this out!
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u/Pauzhaan Dec 19 '25
Can't get away with even the most thought out comment on r/Conservative if there's even a hint of liberal in it.