askchapo

The perpetual right-wing grievance complex

Someone tells a Nazi that they're not 100% accurate (usually not even in a scolding way) and the Nazi fumes and takes it back to their little fortress to ruminate angrily forever

I wouldn’t say Reddit is left-wing. I’d say it’s centrist and establishment coded.

To chuds on Twitter and Nazis on 4chan, that might as well be communism. That’s mostly where the idea that Reddit is left-wing comes from....if you ask me.

Reddit is well represented by people like Destiny: someone who votes for Democrats, supports neoliberals + Israel and uses slurs.

People think libs are “left wing” because they don’t know jack shit

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).

Because the average person thinks liberal = left wing

bog standard reactionary persecution complex stuff: I can't openly drop n bombs, literally 1984

from parents of children who integrated into cities and held mildly progressive views (gay marriage) at the time.

in actuality reddit was always libertarian (rightwing one at that^1^), which got corpo-ed after trumpy 2016 campaign

^1^ weed, jailbait, ron paul, gay marriage are all consistent with right wing libertarianism, i only don't remember gun hogging being prominent

Nazis enjoy feeling oppressed. So they make up stories to tell each other about it for fun

Back when I was the type of person who would spend time arguing on a guy tried to argue that Reddit was a leftist hivemind because the top 2 posts of all time on /r/photos were of Bernie and Obama. I also saw someone try to argue that r/CTH and r/TheDonald held the same political beliefs because users from both would often show up in other parts of .

Basically, it never made sense.

Most likely because reddit is used mostly by USians and Europeans and to them anything other than fascism and bombing brown children = left-wing

I think it used to pretty anti neocon 15 years ago. That's about it.

Reddit used to be techno-libertarian way back in the day with Ron Paul 2012 spam everywhere. Stuff like /r/jailbait was also a reflection of that techno-libertarianism. It's that plus the militant atheism plus a general disdain for Bush era evangelical neoconservatism that led to the (undeserved) reputation that persists to this day.

You have to be at least 13 to be on Reddit, so I’m not surprised it’s not seen as sufficiently right-wing.

The majority of users are from the US, the US's Overton window is shifted so far to the right that the right wing genocidal neo-liberals are considered 'left wing'(even by liberals themselves) because they're marginally to the left of the republicans on a few issues

The amount of liberals does probably outnumber the number of conservative users on there hence the site is seen as 'left-wing'

The nature of the upvote algorithm, and echo-chamber effect of sub does seem to either cause and/or make it appear as though the majority of users have the same views on whatever topics, hence 'hivemind'

because people think /r/politics is "left wing"

I’m going to be completely honest, most of the reddit that I see, as in the really mainstream ones and the niche left ones, have opinions that are far more left leaning than what I see out in the wild, in real life.

I think it’s good to have some perspective on how reactionary the American populace is.

simple: the smallest heartfelt, non-aryan thing in the world, what the enemy has called milksop, is a sign the communists have taken over and revolutionary terror reigns are immanent. unfortunately for every person in the world these chuds are wrong. it's just hypersensitivity to a thing they don't like blown out pf proportion to feed their victim complex