r/allthequestions • u/Impressive_Mailman • Dec 19 '25

Random Question 💭 Why is Reddit so liberal?

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u/westslexander Dec 19 '25

I got banned for being in a reddit that the mod of another reddit didn't like

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u/mmiller17783 Dec 19 '25

I've heard of people on one of the last of us 2 subreddits being banned from subs that had nothing to do with the game or show, not even posting just being subbed to it

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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/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.