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Reddit is representative of humanity, both the best and the worst.





user-inactivated  ·  3567 days ago  ·  link  ·  
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bioemerl  ·  3567 days ago  ·  link  ·  

It's all about confirmation bias.

Ask any of these racists, sexists, etc, and they will tell you reddit is full of politically correct idiots.

At the end of the day it's just full of normal people. Then again, I don't browse the defaults, so I may have a more positive view than I would have otherwise.

user-inactivated  ·  3567 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Thank you, I wish more people had that attitude.

I've been on Reddit for close to 7 years now, and I don't see all of this racism that people are talking about. OTOH I don't subscribe to /r/politics because the level of discourse there just isn't what I want when discussing politics.

On the whole reddit is an amazing site because of the sheer breadth of content and experience, you just have a lot of very loud people who want to complain about anything and everything.

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bioemerl  ·  3567 days ago  ·  link  ·  

"No, there really is a difference in Reddit demographics vs American or world or whatever demographics, and different demographics have reactionaries represented differently. "

Ok, but that doesn't make reddit racist.

" Some place that skews white = it skews racist compared to the population as a whole."

Oh, yes, I forgot, white people are racist.

You use the same sort of "outs" as the people you accuse of being racist use. Yes, people like that exist on reddit. No, that does not make reddit as a whole racist, and it doesn't mean that reddit leans towards allowing racism.

Look at all the comments there on reddit. Notice that, despite the guiding, they are downvoted. Look at the reaction from people who are mostly redditors. You are taking these comments and making them into something that proves what you already think about the site.

Yes, a site with mostly white men will have more sexism/racism against non-white non-men. That doesn't make the entire site racists, and it doesn't mean the site skews to racism.

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bioemerl  ·  3567 days ago  ·  link  ·  

You are responding to someone commenting on someone calling reddit a cesspool.

I was saying reddit represents humanity as a whole, both good and bad, meaning that the people you see are outliers.

If all you are saying is that there are a "higher number" of racists, than you had no reason to post, because you are not disagreeing with what I said in the first place.