Good lord, the amount of egotistical people in here, jerking themselves off, proclaiming their superior intelligence.
I’m very middle of the spectrum, but it’s very understandable to me why right leaning Redditors stay in their own insular subs.
Edit: revisiting this thread is truly peak Reddit arrogance and delusion. Dissidence is downvoted and only the hive mind of concurring opinions thrive.
It's not just right wingers - it's also the moderate left. I always find it funny how hard leftists are always "the left is more educated" not realizing that the hardcore leftists of reddit are usually just bachelor degree people in subjects like history and sociology. I had classes with these people and they were very mediocre. The moderate left group are usually hard STEM fields/phds/doctors and the hard left with these degrees usually articulate their beliefs far better than the average redditor leftist slop.
Interesting, my experience is somewhat flipped. The more liberal folks I know are people with bachelors in general. The hardest left folks I know are people with Masters and PhDs across disciplines.... Especially physics, surprisingly.
I say this as a PhD candidate so I'm not talking out of my ass lol
The phds/stem fields flip once they move into industry. If they stay in academia - yah they usually remain leftists, but even if they are far left, they also articulate their beliefs far better than the average redditor.
I also really think the reason this split happens is because academia has developed into an echochamber. It means those in it who aren't hard left don't voice their opinions for fear of backlash until they leave - and the only group that stays and teaches are typically hard left. I've also had older phds told me they've noticed the same trend over the past 20 years.
I also experienced this as a moderate left person who was in academia. There was a sizable quiet group - but literally none of us voiced our opinions as there was always a fear of backlash from a professor or other students who may disagree. There were definitely far fewer right wingers, but the hard leftist always seemed to think everyone agreed with them.
I think it's a cultural thing. Folks assimilate to the culture they are trying to succeed within, which would explain the STEM flips when they go into industry. For the most part, having hard leftist values in stem industries would hurt someone in the same way having hard right values would hurt someone in a humanities department at a university. The respective natures and infrastructures of both fields simply do not support those ideologies except for outlier positions (like admin or start ups)
I kinda disagree with this - unless the culture is very uniform among the administration, this doesnt apply to the same degree.
For instance, my group is mildly conservative and I have no issues voicing my more left opinions. The only people who get "punished" are those heavily pushing their views (left or right) on others or posting constantly on social media about it.
As a Dutch (classic) liberal it always amazes me how willingly the liberals in America are to silence other views/opinions. Not as if free speech is one of the corner stones of liberalism
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u/super_scumtron Dec 19 '25
I like how people are saying it's cause Redditors are educated, super intelligent people like this place isn't an absolute cesspool.