• silent_water [she/her]
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    1911 months ago

    it’s about the platform and the majority membership, not a judgment of every community that exists there. there are quite obviously cool corners on reddit, but the platform as a whole defends bigotry as free speech, at an admin level.

    • @ToastedPlanet
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      111 months ago

      It does seem like the admin level is an issue when it comes to reddit and racism. This is easier to observe as there are fewer admins than users. I do want to see some kind of data to be convinced it is the majority of people on reddit. I only have my personal experience to go on. I remember fondly how conservatives bemoaned that reddit was dominated by liberals. So from my personal experience the racists were the minority. I could be wrong though, because I don’t have political census data on redditors.

      • GarbageShoot [he/him]
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        1211 months ago

        I remember fondly how conservatives bemoaned that reddit was dominated by liberals.

        Tories have also complained since the beginning of time about how the BBC has a supposed leftwing bias, and no amount of slandering leftists by the BBC has dissuaded them of that. Conservatives just want to feel persecuted.

        • @ToastedPlanet
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          611 months ago

          They do have a persecution complex, I’ll give you that. =D