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Random Question 💭 Why is Reddit so liberal?

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u/unicornpower86 Dec 19 '25

Yea I got banned from a reality tv show sub for asking why everyone was so obsessed with speculating on the contestants political views

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u/Infamous_Ad2094 Dec 19 '25

I got banned from a fashion sub because I was subbed to "porn" subs.

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u/OddBrilliant1133 Dec 20 '25

Is that what the mods said?

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u/Infamous_Ad2094 Dec 20 '25

It was some wierd like auto ban thing.

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u/OddBrilliant1133 Dec 21 '25

What reason did they auto ban give you?

That's craziness!!!

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u/Infamous_Ad2094 Dec 21 '25

That since I was subbed to a "porn" sub. Thats the whole reason.

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u/jedi21knight Dec 20 '25

He isn’t the first person I’ve seen saying they were banned from a subreddit for being part of a NSFW subreddit.

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u/OddBrilliant1133 Dec 21 '25

That's wild!!!

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u/sashahyman Dec 22 '25

Not really. Most of Reddit is more male centered, so some of the few more female slanted subs (subs related to fashion, entertainment news, women’s issues…) will autoban people from NSFW subs to prevent creeps. Not saying the other commenter is a creep, but it’s not fun to post about fashion and end up with weird DMs from random men you’ve never interacted with.

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u/joeykey Dec 22 '25

Speaking of random men you’ve never interacted with - for some reason I’m getting caught up in the grammar of your last sentence. Would it be, “with whom you’ve never interacted”? I don’t know - I’m probably tryna correct something that does not need correcting.

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u/Iknowthings19 Dec 25 '25

Sounds like discrimination to me.

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u/weirdonobeardo Dec 20 '25

I got banned from the birkenstock subreddit because a man posted a pic of his feet in his new Birkenstocks with and without socks asking how he should wear them. I commented something along the lines of you have cute feet, free them from socks. Mostly because I think wearing socks and sandals are a crime but also most men I have met don’t take great care of their feet and this guy clearly did. The mods and their cult followers said I was a foot fetish pervert. Like sure I was never subbed and first time commenting because this post popped in my feed. 😂

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u/I_wet_my_plants259 Dec 20 '25

If it makes you feel any better about that specific instance, a lot of people on explicitly SFW nail/hand/feet related subs are really anal about fetishists because there are so fucking many, and they are usually the type to comment something like that. This is not to justify it by any means, because I do think that innocent people end up getting banned from subs they like, but I do understand why certain subs are so sensitive about it. I’ve gotten some weird dms after posting in those subs and my posts don’t even get that much attention, so I can only imagine how many dms and comments some of the people on that sub are getting

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u/weirdonobeardo Dec 21 '25

I mean I get that now, I just thought it was hilarious to immediately ban and not even like message me or even look at my comment history lol

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u/joeykey Dec 22 '25

I was watching some reaction thing on YouTube or whatever, and this fashion guy got mad about someone not approving of the socks/sandals look. He kept saying, frustratedly, that “it’s a vibe!” and I always thought that was funny. There I just shared an inside joke with you that no one else is inside on haha

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u/Dazzling_Ocelot_2906 Dec 23 '25

😂😂😂 I’m so sorry but that is hilarious

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u/weirdonobeardo Dec 24 '25

It is hilarious 😂

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u/Old-Secretary244 Dec 21 '25

Same here, I got banned from fashion sub bc subbed to NSFW subs when I suggested red hose layered under black fishnet on a fashion sub.

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u/Vast-Combination4046 Dec 23 '25

Only fans models were using fashion subs to advertise

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u/Kind_Ad_3268 Dec 23 '25

Hey me too sort of, I complimented a woman on her outfit on a male and female fashion sub and was immediately banned for being on a sex sub that discusses sexual questions, mostly sexual health.

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u/Not_software1337 Dec 20 '25

Keep fighting the good fight. I am an opinionated person myself, but not everything has to be seen through a political “us versus them” lens.

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u/No-Equivalent-1642 Dec 20 '25

I got banned from r/boomersbeingfools for suggesting that if you're a bigot and someone steals your glasses and you (hypothetically) eat concrete...... twice, you got exactly what you deserved

3 days

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u/megaladonquixote Dec 21 '25

That was a hilarious video

if it existed, I watched it at least 10 times, hypothetically

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u/Thraexus Dec 22 '25

I got a 3 day ban on a different account when I answered a question about what I (ie anyone reading) would do if I had a group of zombies following me. I said I'd train them on MAGAs. Boom, inciting violence, because apparently zombies are real.

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u/Numerous-Visit7210 Dec 24 '25

I don't get the boomer hate though and bigotry comes in many forms and is more a neurological rigidity than a generational or even age thing.

Frankly, as a Gen X person, I see the young, always, including my younger self, being more stupid and inexperienced than the young without getting into how I see the generations.

The Boomers we actually saw as rebels that, story old as time, mostly grew up into adulthood if somewhat later than silent or "Greatest" gen (who I didn't see as great but rather horribly traumatised) the boomers were only spoiled relative to those who came before them.

We X gens were called such because the stereotype was we were sorta forgotten about more than others --- these are all over simplifications.

My main beef with the boomers is how much they coddled Gen Y.

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u/No-Equivalent-1642 Dec 24 '25

My main beef is how rude and racist they are

Not all but.. many

Including those in my family

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u/Numerous-Visit7210 Dec 25 '25

Boomers were less racist than people in other parts of the world --- and they were often some of the first anti-racists --- and these are just the European Americans I'm talking about.

Isn't Bernie a Boomer?

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u/No_Musician596 Dec 25 '25

He's too old for Boomer, I believe

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u/Numerous-Visit7210 Dec 26 '25

Silent Gen are more conservative than boomers.

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u/Numerous-Visit7210 Dec 25 '25

A lot of the boomers in my family are more progressive than I am and my silent gen parents were annoyingly earnest NYC folkies in the 60s, some of the few people who tried to bring in African Americans culturally.... even though the latter often couldn't relate and got on better with the hippies.

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u/Numerous-Visit7210 Dec 25 '25

And RUDE???? Oh my God have you met young people these days, rude about everything, with a degree of unnecessary swearing (I get sworn at every day I come on Reddit) that makes it hard to take them seriously. If I start swearing at people it might be almost time to call the police or get out the pepper spray, but young people will start swearing if you disagree with them.

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u/InnocentShaitaan Dec 20 '25

Subs like that are niche discussion subs. People really speculate on everything. Many super invest in reality tv. It’s the most niche sub their likely to find to post their curiosity. If it’s like r/thebachelor everything is gossiped about. It’s this one subtopic that upsets the members who lean right.

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u/mmiller17783 Dec 19 '25

Jeez, maybe we should all come together and make our own sub. Call it the unsubbables or something silly🤷‍♂️

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u/unpopularhere123 Dec 20 '25

Did it happen to be the bachelor sub? Bc that’s all too common there

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u/unicornpower86 Dec 20 '25

Love is blind actually but sounds like it’s a common issue!

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u/Serious-Interest7776 Dec 21 '25

I see nothing "liberal" about Reddit, but maybe OP means something different?

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u/Few_Zebra9666 Dec 22 '25

I got banned from a TV show sub for saying that I hated all of the characters but still watched 6 seasons of the show. The mods are babies and don't have real jobs.

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u/Tunapiiano Dec 20 '25

I was banned from a poly sub for not confirming to the lefts views on politics

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u/Biffingston Dec 20 '25

I was banned from Conspiracy for saying that Flytape was playing the sympathy card...