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How Reddit became the most hateful space on the Internet
- angersock 12y agoTalking about Reddit as though the entire site is one big hate group is kind of like saying America is one big hate group--it's unfair. It's a collection of many small hate groups, oftentimes opposed! Also, the expressed concern about some evil gaggle of racists over in the corner in their own bubble is pointless. Who cares what backwards things a group believes if they keep to themselves about it? If they do, they're a curiosity, and if they don't, they're dealt with straightforwardly. There's no reason to enforce the majority's taste and perspectives on them.
- beerbajay 12y agoThis was much less interesting than I had hoped. Of course there are racist subreddits; the real story is the prevalence of racist comments outside of these. My sense of it is that on 4chan you get teenage white boys pretending to be racist to be provocative, but on reddit you get the averaged opinions of 20-something American men, which are just pretty racist.
- undersuit 12y agoLet's not be racist, the thoughts of a 20-something Chinese woman can be just as racist, we just don't get as many of them on Reddit. Or maybe Reddit does have a thriving subreddit of racist 20-something chinese women, I've stopped being surprised by the existence of some niche subreddit.