FYI to those who may not know Reddit is pretty liberal overall. I say this as someone who has been on Reddit for ~10years (yes I’m very smart /s). The support for nazis there, in general, is low. We need to keep this momentum against authoritarians, and con-men going. Let’s keep this up everywhere
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We just happened to be sandwiched between the two primarily alt-right generations.
Leaving a small town completely changed my views and made me realize how much better the world could be if more people left their bubbles and erased the stigmas.
https://www.pewresearch.org/journalism/2016/02/2
https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC9603992/
Like, heavily male space is always linked to misogyny. Men lean conservative on every study I see, doesn't really make sense that Reddit out of all places would be different.
Yeah it covers gender bias, sexism and a ton of other things across left wing and right wing spaces but both articles claim Reddit is a left leaning or liberal space. Like another commenter claimed, while unfortunate, both can be true.
However, thanks for the link but I'm done discussing primarily male online spaces as liberal. 😉
Austin subreddit (from TX we are a liberal city) is also pretty liberal, manga and mahwa subreddits also are or at least some aren't republican or political at all or sexist.
I guess it depends on the subreddits
The Austria sub is a hit or miss, women/LGBTQIA+ centered subs are generally positive, same as baking, cats and gardening. (Gonna say that there are majority women in these subs too.)
The relationship sub is something else, and haven't been on self improvement.
Hope you like it more here and definitely block those trolls no need to let them affect you.
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The support is there. I turned down my usage in 2016 just because the vibes were wrong and I had to run an extension to see if commenters were in horrible groups. I nuked my comments and walked away for a few years.
Honestly public discourse around things would be better if companies were held legally responsible for bots and if astroturfing became a felony or at least fined.
These are unusual times and as a life long Republican, I am on board with supporting left wing ideologies as a form of protest against the cowardice of republicans when dealing with trump.
Untili there is a post about some non-european migrant doing some dumb shit r/Europe and all european subreddits turn brown in a heartbeat.
Reddit's not any better and definitely hiding Nazis in their subs.
In the case of the gamer communities I always see a high amount of bigots