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I think a lot of it stems from the early years of Reddit when leftism (in the popular conscious) was associated with pushback against evangelical cultural conservatism. So the Reddit atheism plus r/trees image (this was also long before the legalization wave) gave it this reputation of leaning left. As is wont to happen, the reputation lives on long after the stereotype has ceased to be relevant (see: conservatives that still think San Francisco is some den of unwashed, unreformed hippies).
Made me think, reddit was only ever as left-leaning as 4chan was.
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Same underlying attitude but with an “adults in the room” veneer
That sort of view of SF always strikes me as so strange because the Bay Area must be one of the richest areas in all of human history. But rightwingers see a photo of a young woman with purplish hair or a photo of the poverty of the Tenderloin and say: Yeah, that's what I expected. What a shit hole.