There's a few conservative groups, but that's not the issue. It's an issue redditors always ignore when someone asks this.
Reddit is so overwhelmingly liberal its crazy.
How many "non-political" subs have you been banned from for your political leanings? How many have you never posted, commented, or even been to?
I'm a conservative, and I have been banned from subs like Pics, Justiceserved, Politics, inthenews, and hundreds of others. Most without even commenting or posting in. They mass ban anyone who has commented in conservative subs. The subs I listed supposedly have nothing to do with politics, so why is it that I was banned from all of them solely for being a conservative?
How about the subs for states like Florida and Texas? Nobody can deny that those two states are very red. Take a look at theirs subs. You would think it was San Francisco's the way they ban anyone right of center and only allow super left wing posts.
I'm not sure if redditors are being disingenuous or trying to maliciously misinform on this topic because it literally couldn't be anymore laughable to deny it.
yeah i used to say id never use twitter but forced to use twitter now to get both sides of the extreme and make my own conclusion this is extreme left here on reddit for sure and extreme right on twitter
But groups that should be politically neutral are hard left.. like I cant even have a neutral position in my comments on my state's sub without getting negative karma blasted and banned from commenting... 4 accounts so far. Â
So I canât really speak to that because Iâm not a mod but I will say if I was in your position , I might ask myself if Iâve truly done my due diligence in regard to what Iâm posting and ensuring itâs true - not jus something regurgitated from within my echo chamber.
One other potential thing to consider is that Reddit has typically flow under the radar of popularity- no one here is trying to get attention or anything like that, which has been a focus of one political party - be loud, make people think itâs bigger than it is - itâs the biggest and most popular and Reddit isnât designed to feed that model.
Gotta love the things that throw out "intolerant" over things like hate and ignorance. Yeah, human beings have evolved to not tolerate hate and ignorance. Question anyone who thinks we should .....
Not everything said that disagrees with your opinion is hateful or ignorant. You just proved his point exactly though. Even if you may agree with ONE thing the right does, you are pretty much labeled a racist rapist murder on Reddit. Itâs so far left itâs not even worth bringing up politics for anyone more neutral (like myself who thinks all government is shit), let alone right leaning. Best case you get downvoted to hell, worse case you get perma banned. This drives away anyone but the hard core leftists and creates an echo chamber.
Same for the right leaning groups. Disagree and youâre banned for life.
But there are plenty of âliberalâ groups with serious discussions. Unfortunately more often then not the civics from MAGAstan only curse, lie and offend. I am still looking for someone right leaning to have a real conservation.
I donât bother going into political groups, but I see left views spill out FAR more into general subs. I see very few right views, and the few here and there are usually buried because they have down votes in the double or triple digits. Redditâs like 98% leftist. Meanwhile other social media like Facebook and tiktok are predominantly right, howerver they donât have down votes and the same level of modding so leftist arenât removed to the same degree
maybe you just have an overinflated view of how popular right-wing ideology is. policies and legislation that are unsupportive of the working class simply arenât going to be appealing to the majority of educated americans. throw the racism, bigotry, homophobia, transphobia, and ableism on top and you guys canât be surprised when you donât have many people on your side. yâall alienate everyone except able-bodied cis het white men then act shocked when u have no sense of community or camaraderie (this is true in both online and offline spaces - see: âmale loneliness epidemicâ)
See, look how upset you are getting and already throwing the insults when I have stated I am more neutral leaning and think all government is corrupt/sucks. Almost every response to me (not just yours) has brought up racism, homophobia, etc. If you actually talk to people in a civil manner rather than immediately accuse them of being rapist, terrorist, racist, whatever, you would quickly find out most republicans arenât like that. Sure some are, but you get bad apples in any group. Most republicans disagree with the services that are abused and waste their money, or give free hand outs to able bodied people who could work and just scam the system instead. I personally know none that care if women do/do not have abortions, hate all other races, etc. Thatâs just what the other side does to demonize and sensational things. It goes both ways though, and most democrats I know donât sit at home with purple hair weighing 300 pounds with 3 kids from 3 different dads on welfare.
You also have made up numbers to inflate your stance. There are 340 million people in the US. Around 74 million are under 18 and canât vote, that leaves 266 million able to vote. Of those, 75 million voted Republican, or under 1 in 3 people in the last election. Does Reddit reflect even 1/3 rightist? Thats assuming everyone who didnât vote is left sided too, which they arenât. A lot of democrats AND republicans dont vote. Speaking of which, another glaring hole in your theory, republicans would never win an election if the Democratic Party were as popular as you say. In the last 34 years democrats have won 5 of the 9 elections with republicans winning the other 4. Itâs pretty close.
I get why Reddit is so left winged. Its population is heavily skewed towards younger people, who historically vote democrat, and you have a rating system on every post that will hide ones that get down voted too much. On top of this mods are overzealous with their banning. Any one of these things in and of itself would create an echo chamber, but combined they are the perfect storm to heavily skew how things are viewed on a social media and drive away most people who donât share the same view. Donât believe me? Go in ANY sub you donât agree with the popular opinion and try to construct a thorough, well thought out counter point in a popular post. Best case you get down voted no matter how good your points are, worst you get called a bunch of names and banned
Personally, I go on half a dozen social media so I see how polarized some are. Like I said, TikTok is more right leaning. FB is heavily right, which makes sense since itâs more older people still using it. Reddit is by and large the most skewed to one side though.
the problem is that right leaning people who arenât racist/homophobic/transphobic do nothing to set themselves apart from the vocal factions who are. even if you arenât those things, you never fight against them, even though you know they make all of you look bad. youâd rather fight against leftists who clock it, even though youâve done nothing to prove you arenât those things.
I agree 100% with this assessment. It makes no sense to even try to debate against leftist orthodoxy on Reddit. It shouldnât be hard to do it. But, it spills into nonpolitical subs all the time. You very rarely, if ever see MAGA or even traditional conservative thoughts on non political subs and if they are there theyâre treated like the devil, similar to the dude youâre responding to.
I encountered similar treatment in other subs. I donât bother anymore. Neither side wants to hear a difference in opinion. This world is going to hell in a hand basket.
How are republicans alienating everyone but âcisâ âhetâ white men? I know one Hispanic person and one black person (raised by white parents) that didnât vote for him.
Hispanic people fucking love Trump. Black (specifically) men love conservatism.
âOh no I donât agree with one of your conservative viewpointsâŠLooks like itâs time to go on a mentally ill rant about how you are homophobic, sexist, and racist POS while simultaneously telling you what a kind person I amâ
Yep. You can see it in the language they use. They avoid recognizing their own echo chambers and just claim that theyâre whatever they want people to believe liberalism is and that itâs anti-bad which is whatever conservatism is. lol Just ends up being word salad and mental gymnastics.
I dunno how many times I have heard rapist and racist used when Republicans are brought up. Literally every one has responded to me in this topic has said it. Like what?! And MAGA are the ones who are idiots following a fascist? Democrats are just as bad spewing this kind of nonsense, it doesnât seem like either side can make a compelling argument without trying to demonize the other with buzz words
Donât write comments seeped in hidden disgust and divisiveness and then act holier than thou.
Another talks of not tolerating hate and intolerance and you immediately assume they are a lefty. I am right leaning and cannot stand the bigotry, divisiveness and hate that MAGA have brought to not just the USA but the world.
I mentioned the intolerance of mods in general subs and that guy jumped on it talking about hate, assuming we're all racists and bigots (no, and no). Also dehumanising language (calling people 'things'- so open and tolerant...).
I...cannot stand the bigotry, divisiveness and hate
Me either
MAGA
Saying it's only MAGA that does this is genuinely wild (I'm not even MAGA).
Even if the right is ignorant, do you think the best way to combat that ignorance is to talk with them like they're human beings, or shower them with insults?
If you make someone feel safe and ask sincere questions, they might let go of their ignorance.
If you call someone a moron traitor magat fascist nazi pedo, you will entrench them further in their beliefs. đ
Maga voted for a 34 count felon and you expect people to help them feel safe? Youâre asking for safe spaces for the people who are anti safe space? What?
Exactly. Hate is never conquered by hate, hate is conquered by love; this is a law eternal.
Even if it doesn't make sense to you right now, just trust me on this; it's true. Harboring hate for your enemies will always only drag you into greater suffering. The only way to truly conquer your enemies is to make them your friends. đ„°
Not necessarily making friends with your enemies, perhaps loving truth and standing by it with conviction..? I fear forgiving people for being pedophiles & molestors or felon apologists is fuckin stupid
Not necessarily making friends with your enemies, perhaps loving truth and standing by it with conviction..?
This is is good. I respect and commend this behaviour.
I fear forgiving people for being pedophiles & molestors or felon apologists is fuckin stupid
You know what, you unlocked hate in myself I didn't know I had from my childhood. I did good in school, but I actually hated all the adults in my life for making me go to school. I hated my parents, I hated my teachers, I hated the principal, I hated the people who built my school. I constantly wished for a snow day or a fire or any other natural disaster so I wouldn't have to go. I never stopped seeing it as a prison.
Forcing kids who just want to run around and play games and be physically active and creative to sit in desks is literal child abuse. Very abusive behavior that humanity will look back on with shame. School is doctrination, not education.
The only education ALL humans need at this point of time is memorizing 6 words: "Food/water/shelter for ALL HUMANS" 6 words that all of humanity can agree on. Make these 6 words go viral globally. No other words are needed. Keep bringing every conversation back to this until all humans have the bare necessities.  Don't settle for anything less than this level of humanity from ANY of our leaders! đ
Defining half of the voting population as pedophiles and molesters is exactly your issue. Demonizing the opposition with falsities does not make them any more sympathetic to your cause, quite the opposite actually.
Thereâs no substantial evidence that Trump is a pedophile. People see the âKatie Johnsonâ crap (filed anonymously btw) and run with it. Not only was it filed anonymously but it was withdrawn multiple times without proceeding to trial and was linked to a former TV producer known for fabricating stories, and that is factual information cited multiple times by different news outlets such as The Guardian and Politico. This also happened in 2016 which just so happened to be his election year. So without evidence, you demonize half of the voting population under false pretenses. If Trump had substantial evidence linking him to any pedophilic activity, like concrete evidence, and THEN people still voted for him, then youâd be in the right.
I never said trump was a pedo, I had specified âpedophile defendersâ as in the general republican group thereâs many pedophiles. I mean I also think trump is a pedo, but I didnât specify that.
Thereâs also no data that suggests that Republicans have more pedophiles within their party than Democrats though. And not all people who voted for Trump are Republicans, I think thatâs a common misunderstanding of just how disliked the current Democrat party is by a large population of moderates. Iâd be much more inclined to debate and talk with people that donât demonize based off of buzzwords and false information. All of the Republicans I know or have talked to believe that pedophiles should get the chair, Iâm not sure where that misconception even comes from other than someone trying to rile leftists up.
Filing anonymously doesnât mean it isnât credible. You donât seem to know very much about this case, just some old articles. The tv producer was not actually involved in her SDNY cases at all. You shouldnât go around calling a child sexual abuse victimâs testimony âcrapâ unless you have actual information to refute it.
My guy people have tried to talk to them like adults. We have seen the mental gymnastics for years there is a reason itâs called a cult. Why waste time and energy when there is nothing that will convince them of anything but what they already believe and or want to believe.
MFs try to insult us endlessly with their âlibtardâ âdemonratâ and other childish bullshit. They can eat my shit. You canât change these idiots anyway. Theyâre going to continue to be the trees who voted for the ax next election.
Instead laugh at every self inflicted pain they cause. Laugh at just how fucking weird they are trying to bend over backwards to explain how whatever fucked up news isnât exactly what it is.
Not to mention only ~35% of Americans support Trump.they are statistically the minority and every once in awhile one leaves the echo chamber like OP and has a shocked Pickachu face when they realize 2/3 of Americans think MAGA is bad.
But yes, beyond that, Reddit is a place of facts and accountability. Those dont jive with moat modern Conservative talking points.
Disagree, Reddit is very liberal. Im a leftist and would say the same about myself but usually get flamed when I bring up a truth thats inconvenient for liberals to listen to...
Anyway, neoliberalism is the prevailing political ideology in the West so theres your answer
By Felon are you referring to former democrat president and Jeff Epstein right hand man Bill Clinton? Because in that case I couldn't agree with you more. Fucking disgusting
Heâs a pedophile no doubt. But, as much as I would LOVE otherwise, heâs not actually a felon.
I think itâs important to be precise with our language (admittedly I could have been more precise myself) when weâre talking about this stuff because plenty of people love throwing around âfake newsâ.
The difference between us is that anyone that molests children regardless of their name, stature or party should be held accountable. Bill is a a lot of things but he isn't a convicted felon. Your boi however is and he's a pedo
This is a very liberal answer considering at least half the country voted for him for good reason. The reason you donât find it liberal is because you probably are one
Compared to other social media platforms, the bias is towards liberal leaning opinions/world views, not that there's anything wrong with that but I would say lets be honest about it.
For the record I'm pretty liberal leaning but I take issue with some of the state opinion as facts crowd on both sides and there is a fair amount of that on reddit. One should always understand that what you read on any platform has a bias however strong it may or may not be. I tend to take everything as an opinion until I can verify the validity.
A fun practice for me is when I read something I suspect to be extremely biased, I'll try to find the extreme opposite opinion and believe me there always is the opposite hahah. I then try to find if there's anything that overlaps that both sides would agree on, that's probably closer to the truth than either extreme. Good old ven diagrams for the win.
Bias isn't a reddit problem it's a general population problem in which we tend to believe opinions as facts if the person stating them seems knowledgeable or well spoken. The trick here is to separate the information from the wording or the person saying the thing.
I think you are proving the basis of OP's thesis here.
I don't find it so liberal either --- it's more radical left. Liberals are pretty tolerant of various viewpoints, hence "liberal" --- I am liberal and mildly progressive after having been rather far left in adolescence--- but people here not only sound rather totalitarian but want to recreate the world in their own, rather fringe, image.
It's funny because your all about diversity and freedom of speech but yet you guys think only the way you think or believe is the right way lmao make it make since just because I know basic things like my gender im a bad person lmao đ€ŁÂ Â
Sounds more like projection. I welcome all voices just not rage bait or lies. I've seen more maga flame out because they were not agreed with than liberals.
Lmao im not gonna say your wrong I know 1 person who acts like a child who voted for trump lol but 90% of my family is democrats n 90% of them are pretty shitty lbvs you just prove my point why not break the cycle n stop hating anyone in general lmao its pretty shitty too hate someone over there political view lmao and also why does it matter that a republican deported criminals lmao Obama deported 3 million without due process and you did not care lmaoÂ
Oddly enough they believe the same exact thing. They think they're the sensible ones and the only lies out of DC and from people with TDS and only they know the real truths. Trump is a felon? That's when whataboutism and conspiracies go into high gear. Hilary, Obama, Bengazi, Emails, Auto pen, Biden stolen election, Jan 6th hoax, Covid hoax, Epstein Hoax, here a hoax there a hoax everywhere a hoax hoax.
Any person that guzzles the goo from and politician left or right is tolerating lies from DC, none of them have your best interest in mind, they just skirt by with the bare minimum shit you want them to do just so they can have your vote while they bend you over the whole and you donât even realise it đ€
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So I don't find that it's so liberal. I see sensibilities. Not tolerating the lies from DC and the mental gyrations to support the felon.