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The other 82% is /r/politics
by zalkota 6y ago
The other 82% is /r/politics
- rvz 6y agoA long way to go to solving 'hate speech' on Reddit. If you can first find where to draw the line that is.
- chromedev 6y agoNope, definitely /r/conspiracy.
- moksly 6y agoI’m a sucker for conspiracy theories, like the Bermuda Triangle. Aliens abducting cows and lizards living inside the Queen. I don’t believe in any of it, but I’ve just loved that stuff since I was a kid. So I actually used to follow /r/conspiracy, but I stopped around the 2016 election when everything started being about American politics. Not sure what happened, but it went from “the lone gunmen” to “angry American central” over night, and the place has royally sucked since.
- Daishiman 6y agoIt was taken over as a tool for political propaganda. Political operatives realized that and have been refining this strategy.
- throw_m239339 6y agoNah r/politics is completely unhinged. I have rarely seen that level of vitriol anywhere else on reddit, even on Trump subs. This isn't just about ideas, this is about how people behave and talk. It's surreal.
- convery 6y agoThey'd never remove that though. Come to think of it, a lot of the banned subreddits were anti a lot of the politics that regularly get upvoted to the frontpage [0]. So looks more like a political purge. A selection of banned subreddits: r/CampusConservative r/HateCrimeHoaxes r/rightwingcomics r/rightwinglgbt r/Nationalism r/DebateAltRight r/GenderCritical r/blackcrimestatistics r/againstdiversity r/Holodomor r/ExposeCulturalMarxism r/AltRightChristian r/The_Donald r/BanBigMouth [0] - https://www.reddit.com/r/reclassified/comments/hi41t2/the_banwave_so_far/ https://www.reddit.com/r/reclassified/comments/hi41t2/the_ba...
- nailer 6y agoThanks for actually providing details on what was banned. A lot of those are fairly reasonable topics. The 'Watch reddit die' sub recently posted screenshots of gay subreddits banning conservative gays explicitly because they were conservative.
- NoSorryCannot 6y agoIt strikes me that having a duality of political groups like this doesn't mean they both have equal legitimacy or deserve equal platform. American conservatives have pretty eagerly woven prejudice into the ideological fabric of the party. Similarly the party seems willing to promote or at least enable blatant criminality. They made their socially-regressive bed and now they can lie in it. "Fiscal conservatives" who don't see themselves in the rest of the picture would be right to feel disenfranchised.
- throwmehaweh 6y ago> American conservatives have pretty eagerly woven prejudice into the ideological fabric of the party. Similarly the party seems willing to promote or at least enable blatant criminality. Wow, what a complete load of horse dung. American Conservatives aren't the ones burning down cities, looting businesses, beating people up, threatening people with violence, and demanding white people give up their suburban homes on an almost daily basis -- justifying it all under the false guise of oppression. The level of denial is sickening, but ok.
- nailer 6y agoThat's a very bold claim. On what basis would you say that?
- NoSorryCannot 6y agoThe basis is the last 60 years or so. Looking earlier than the seventies or so and the parties are recognizable in name only. There's been a pretty radical shift in party ideologies, particularly identity politics, over the last century. Republicans of half a century ago would have hanged the modern republican party politicians as traitors and seditionists.